"grandmother" respectively, though the last two can represent baby-talk (baba is also a slang word for "woman", and a folk word for a married woman with a child born). In popular speech tata and tyatya for "dad" were also used until the 20th century. In some dialects, papa means "food". Serbo-Croatian мама/mama for mom, and тата/tata for dad. Slovak mama / tata, also tato. In addition, papanie / papať means "food" / "eat" respectively. Slovene mama / ata, also tata Ukrainian мама (mamа) and тато (tato) (папа (papa) in South-eastern dialects). Germanic Dutch mama / mam / ma and papa / pap / pa English mama / mum/mummy (standard British) / mom/mommy (US/Canada/sometimes regional Irish) / momma / mam (regional British and regional Irish) / ma and dad / dada / daddy / papa / pa / da Faroese mamma German Mama and Papa Icelandic mamma; pabbi Norwegian mamma and pappa Swedish mamma and pappa Swiss German mami, but mame in the dialect from Graubünden and mamma in certain dialects from the Canton of Bern Celtic Irish "Máthair" () Scottish Gaelic màthair () / athair () Welsh mam tad (mutates to dad) Breton mamm (mutates to vamm) and tad (mutates to dad or zad) Indo-Aryan Old Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit): Mātṛ / Ambā for "mother" and Pitṛ / Tātaḥ for "father". Assamese has ma ("মা") and aai ("আই") as "mother" and deuta ("দেউতা") and pitai ("পিতাই") as "father". However, due to English borrowings, the words mamma and pappa are sometimes used today. Bengali, the words maa ("মা") and baba ("বাবা") are used for "mother" and "father". Gujarati uses mātā, or mā, for mother and bāpuji, or pitā, for father. Informally, the terms mammi and pappā are also used, possibly due to English influence. Hindi has the word mātā and pitaji as the formal words for "mother" and "father", though the shorter informal term maa and pita is more common. Due to English borrowings, the words mamma and pappa are also common. Konkani language, the word "aai" for "mother" and "baba" "father" are used, given the language's close similarity to Marathi. However, due to English borrowings, the words mamma and pappa are much more common today. Maithili language has the word Mami and Papa to refer mother and father respectively, which were borrowed from English and are very popular in Mithila federal state of Nepal and Bihar state of India. Marathi Aai (“आई”)