Definition of "amma" []

• Mother (noun)
• An abbess or spiritual mother. (noun)

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• "It is also called by the Greek word amma (nurse) because it loves (amando) infants and is said to offer milk to the newborn."
• "She will be missed by many. ~ in amma's love, kasturi"
• "In his book Radical Healing: Integrating the World’s Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine, Dr. Rudolph Ballentine described how a plaque called amma becomes lodged in the subcutaneous layers of the skin."