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Where does “അംബ” come from?
അംബ (Malayalam) comes from Sanskrit अम्बा, from Proto-Indo-Iranian (H)anmáH.
അംബ
(Malayalam): mother
Definitions
mother
Ancestry of “അംബ”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Sanskrit
अम्बा
a mother, good woman
2
Proto-Indo-Iranian
(H)anmáH
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