Its very common in our cultures to attach word ‘Amma / Maa’ with ladies relatives (elder ones). Phuppi Amma, Tai Amma, Khala Amma, Dadi Amma, Nani Amma even Sasoo Maa.
In Sindhis, I’ve seen many people referring to their daughters as ‘Muhnji Amma’.
Seems people in our part of world are more attached with mothers than fathers. Though word abba is also attached with taya, dada and naana, but not with Khaloo, Phuppa.
My question is why they don’t use Maami / Mumani Amma or chachi amma? Whats with tai and Phuppi that earn them Amma title, which is not present in Mumani and chachi?
But it sounds unfamiliar and not so common. right? But why Mumanis are not called Mumani Amma. Is it due to some phonetic problems are there are some problems with Mumanis.
We call our choti phuppi 'Jiji', baRi phuppi 'Ammi' and our mother 'Amma'. We don't call our tai or Khala 'Tai Amma or Khala Amma'. Tai is Chachi or Chachi Waddi as there aren't different words for tai and chachi in Sindhi. Badi Khala is 'Maasi' and choti Khala is 'Bhabhi' as she is married to our cousin.
But it sounds unfamiliar and not so common. right? But why Mumanis are not called Mumani Amma. Is it due to some phonetic problems are there are some problems with Mumanis.
It's not really uncommon or unfamiliar for me. I guess maybe it's a Hyderabadi thing, but I've heard it quite a lot. Here are the titles that we use: Taiya Abbu, Tai Ammi, Khala Ammi, Khala Jaan, Khala Pasha, Mamoo Jaan, Mumani Jaan, Phuppo Jaan, Chacha Jaan, Chacha Baba etc...
In my family, I have heard Bari ammi for Tai and Choti ammi for chachi.
My siblings and I use mumani jaan, khala jaani, chachi ji or chachi jaan, etc.
For daada and naana, we alternate between daada jaan and daada abu, depending on whether we want to give respect and be formal (use abbu) or maska lagaao with love (use jaan).
In my family, I have heard Bari ammi for Tai and Choti ammi for chachi.
My siblings and I use mumani jaan, khala jaani, chachi ji or chachi jaan, etc.
For daada and naana, we alternate between daada jaan and daada abu, depending on whether we want to give respect and be formal (use abbu) or maska lagaao with love (use jaan).
Do you think phuppis love their bhateejas more than Mumanis love bhanjas of her husband?
Do you think phuppis love their bhateejas more than Mumanis love bhanjas of her husband?
Phuppi. Especially if they were still single and around a lot to see the bhateejay's bachpan. However, I do feel a huge change in attitude once they have their own kids.
My cousin (phuppi zad bhai) was very much attached with me. I used to spent lot of time at phuppi’s home. Phuppi had given free hand to children and we used to roam around in kitchen taking honey, sugar from jars. Once my cousin came to our home. Ammi is still very particular about kitchen arrangement and she allowed my sisters lately as they could not handle stuff properly. So we went to kitchen to get something from jars and Ammi saw us and gave a good daant to us. I said to my cousin ‘dekho tumhari ammi mujhse ziada piar karti hai.. kuch nahin kehti.. kuch bhi karo.. tumhe to daant paRi hamare sath’. he told this to phuppi and phuppi to daadi.. When daadi asked amma to give explanation for this… Amma was at me :sid:
Oh, I forgot to add, another term we use for Phuppi is "Kaka or Kaki" and in my dadiyal, we call our youngest Phuppi "Didi"......
I think this adding 'Amma' , "Abba' or 'Jaan' is only popular with Muslims of India (UP, Bihar, Delhi, Hyderabad, etc) and not in Hindu, Sikhs and Muslims of Sindh, Punjab, Bengal, Balochistan and Pashtun areas (may be in Pashtun areas Jaan would be common, but in different style)
at me :sid: