Where does “Mother of all Bombs” come from?

Mother of all Bombs (English) comes from English mother of all, from Arabic أُمّ — mother.

Mother of all Bombs (English): A type of large-yield conventional bomb, the...

Definitions

  1. A type of large-yield conventional bomb, the...

Ancestry of “Mother of all Bombs”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishmother of allUsed before a plural noun to form a compound noun having the sense of: the greatest or largest of (its kind); the most epic example of (its kind)
2Arabicأُمّmother
Every word from Arabic أُمّ →Every word from English mother of all →