We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than with a list of Arabized “yo mama” jokes! In Arabic the "your mum", maybe better known as the infamous “yo mama” franchise, carries a literal equivalent in Ummak… which gets used as a stand alone byword for a whole cascade of cultural insults, or borrowed with a qualifier for bad jokes.
Except, we wouldn’t dream of being mean about our moms (or mums if you will!) - unless we're asking to have a frisbeed slipper land on our heads! Instead, in a culture where motherhood is sacrosanct and next to Godliness, we’re going to play nice and sing songs of praise to our beloved Arab mothers through the medium of Yo Mama.
This year, in honor of Mothering Sunday in Britain, book publisher Penguin tried - and failed - to inspire some maternal spirit by using the Twitter hashtag #YourMum. Originally designed to honour the book-reading mothers in advance of the occasion, the noble attempt soon (maybe inevitably) snowballed into playground insults after tweeps deemed the hashtag “inappropriate.”
So with Middle East Mother’s Day upon us, we follow suit in tapping into the Yo Mama/ Your Mum trope for positive effect. Without further ado, for sons, daughters, husbands, mama’s boys, mama lovers everywhere, we dedicate this gallery of unique Arab mama-traits to our Middle Eastern Mamas! After all, as the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said, “Paradise lies beneath mothers’ feet.”
Yo Arab Mama is so AMAZING we can't help but celebrate her on Mother's Day! LOL your way through these Yo Mama Arab-style jokes and see if you can see your Arab mama through any of these mock mother-truths!
Mama, we hope you enjoy these “yo mama” jokes more than you did labor!
