Mother

Noun



 * 1) A (human) female who (a) parents a child or (b) gives birth to a baby. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be (c).
 * (a) I am visiting my mother today.
 * 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son
 * He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
 * (b) My sister-in-law has just become a mother.
 * (c) Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
 * 1991, Susan Faludi, The Undeclared War Against American Women
 * The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.
 * 1) A female parent of an animal.
 * The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
 * 1)  A female ancestor.
 * 2) * Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. –Genesis 3:20, NIV.
 * 3)  A source or origin, viewed affectionately.
 * The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
 * 1)  A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
 * Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
 * 1)  Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community
 * 2) * Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother. –Mark 3:35, NIV.
 * 3)  Any person or entity which performs mothering.
 * 4) * The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. –Judges 5:7, KJV.
 * 5) * Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. –Galatians 4:26, KJV.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:mother
 * metro-

Antonyms

 * father
 * daughter, son, child

Hypernyms

 * parent

Coordinate terms

 * father

Derived terms

 * antimother
 * be mother
 * biological mother
 * birth mother
 * foster mother
 * grandmother, great-grandmother


 * Mother City
 * Mother Earth
 * motherfucker
 * Mothering Sunday
 * mother-in-law
 * motherland


 * Mother's Day
 * mother-to-be
 * mother wit
 * stepmother
 * surrogate mother

Verb

 * 1)  To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

Noun

 * 1) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
 * "The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun." — Saddam Hussein

Related terms

 * mother of all

Noun

 * 1)  motherfucker.
 * 2)  A striking example.

Synonyms

 * MF, mofo, motherfucker, mutha

Adjectives for Mother
provident; prudent; glorious; peasant; imoatient; frail; beautiful; admirable; pious; doting; mahogany-colored; tedious-working; bereaved; commonplace; potential; infuriated; jealous; indulgent; frowzy; venerable; melancholy; famishing; earthly; vigorous; aggressive; elemental; insatiate; spirited; celestial; prolific; strong-armed; authentic; incestuous; delicate; bountiful; over-fatigued; querulous; imaginary; virgin; green-girdled; sorrowing; devoted; foolish; widowed; subtle; deft; spiteful; adopting; altruistic; unnatural.

Verbs for Mother
anchor—; cherish—; cling to—; deliver of —; devote to—; hound—; obey—; —bears; —cradles; —conceives; —embraces; —fondles; —forsakes; —nourishes; —nurses; — protects; —punishes; —rears; —rocks; — sacrifices; —suckles; —weans.

Thesaurus
SOB, agent, ancestorial, ancestors, ancestral, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, attend to, aunt, auntie, author, baby, baby-sit, bastard, bear, beget, begetter, beginner, birth, blood brother, breed, breed true, brethren, bring to birth, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, bugger, builder, care for, catalyst, causer, chaperon, cherish, coddle, conceiver, conserve, constructor, copulate, cosset, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, cradle, craftsman, creator, creep, crossbreed, cultivate, dam, daughter, designer, deviser, discoverer, dry-nurse, effector, engender, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fart, father, fatherlike, fatherly, feed, first cousin, fondle, foster, foster brother, foster mother, founder, frater, generate, generator, genesis, genetrix, get, give birth to, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandnephew, grandniece, grandparental, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, grower, half brother, heel, hood, hooligan, inaugurator, inbreed, indulge, industrialist, initiator, innate, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, jerk, journeyman, keep watch over, kid brother, lavish care on, look after, look out for, look to, louse, ma, make love, maker, mam, mama, mamma, mammy, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mater, materfamilias, maternal, maternal ancestor, matriarch, matronize, maw, meanie, mind, minister to, mom, mommy, motherlike, motherly, mover, multiply, mum, mummy, native, natural, nephew, niece, nourish, nuncle, nunks, nunky, nurse, nurture, nurturer, old, old lady, old woman, organizer, origin, originator, outbreed, pamper, parent, parental, past master, paternal, patriarchal, pill, planner, precursor, preserve, prime mover, primum mobile, procreate, producer, progenitrix, proliferate, propagate, protect, protege, provide for, raiser, rat, realizer, reproduce in kind, ride herd on, second cousin, see after, see to, serve, shaper, shelter, shepherd, shit, shithead, shitheel, sire, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, smith, son, source, spoil, spoon-feed, stepbrother, stepmother, stepsister, stinkard, stinker, suckle, support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, tend, the old woman, turd, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over, wellspring, wet-nurse, wright

Etymology 1
From moder:, from  modor:, from  (cf. East Frisian muur:, Dutch moeder:, German Mutter:), from  (cf. Irish máthair:, Tocharian A mācar:, B mācer:, Lithuanian motė:).

Etymology 2
Calque of Arabic (’umm, mother).

Etymology 3
Shortened from motherfucker:

Alternative forms

 * mutha

Noun

 * Afrikaans: formal ; informal
 * Ainu:
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac:
 * Hebrew:
 * Armenian:, մամա
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: маці, мама
 * Bengali: মাতা, মা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: အမေ, အမိ, မိခင်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Min Nan:, , , ,
 * Chinese:, , , , ,
 * Chinook Jargon: ,
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian: (mwt)
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Etruscan:
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, मां, , वालिदा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Inuktitut:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ម្ដាយ, ម៉ែ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:, دایک
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, genetrix
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Livonian: ,
 * Lombard:
 * Lower Sorbian:, , , ,


 * Luganda:
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Luxembourgish: Mamm
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam:, മാതാവ്, തള്ള
 * Maltese:, mamà,
 * Maori:
 * Meru:
 * Miyako:
 * Mongolian:, ээж
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: Aama
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Novial: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Persian:
 * Pashto: مور
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: dej
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , матушка
 * Santali:
 * Scots: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, , , , ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: mme
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tamil:, தாய், அன்னை, யாய்
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian A:
 * Tocharian B:
 * Tok Pisin: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:, мама
 * Urdu:, ماں, , والدہ
 * Uyghur: ana
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, má
 * Volapük: mot
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: qáe
 * Yiddish: ,
 * Zazaki: ma
 * Zulu: umama (nc 2)


 * Abkhaz: ан (an)
 * Adyghe: нан (nan)
 * Afrikaans: formal moeder; informal ma
 * Ainu: ハポ (hapo)
 * Albanian: nënë, mëmë
 * Aleut: anax
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: (’umm)
 * Aragonese: mai
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܡܐ (’imā’)
 * Hebrew: אמא (’imā’)
 * Armenian: մայր (mayr), մայրիկ (mayrik), մամա
 * Asturian: ma
 * Aymara: tayca
 * Azeri: ana
 * Basque: ama
 * Belarusian: маці, матуля , мама
 * Bemba: mayo
 * Blackfoot: iksísst
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: mamm
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: mare
 * Cebuano: inahan
 * Chamorro: nana
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏥ
 * Chinese: 妈妈 (māma); 母亲 (mǔqīn)
 * Chinook Jargon: ,
 * Chiricahua: -má
 * Cornish: mam
 * Crimean Tatar: ana
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Equadorian Quechua: mama
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Etruscan:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Guaraní: sy
 * Hawaiian: meme, nene, eme
 * Hebrew: אֵם (em), אמא (imma)
 * Hittite: anna
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: matro
 * Interlingua: matre
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᓈᓇ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Jicarilla: -’máá
 * Kazakh: Шеше (sheshe), ана (ana), әже (yezhe)
 * Khmer: (mdai),  (mai)
 * Kinyarwanda: mama
 * Kongo: ngudi
 * Korean: 엄마 (eomma), 어머니 (eomeoni)
 * Kurdish: dayik ,
 * Kyrgyz: эне (yene)
 * Latin:, genetrix
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: Moæ
 * Lipan: -’má
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Livonian: jemā, ǟma
 * Lojban: mamta
 * Lower Sorbian:


 * Luxembourgish: Mamm
 * Macedonian: мајката (Majkata)
 * Malagasy: reny
 * Malayalam: അമ്മ (amma)
 * Manx: mayragh
 * Marshallese: jinen
 * Mayan: mamah
 * Miyako:
 * Mohawk: -'nihstenha
 * Nahuatl: nantli
 * Navajo: -má, (amá, "someone’s mother")
 * Northern Sami:
 * Northern Sotho: mma
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Novial: matra, patra
 * Occitan: maire
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old Persian:
 * Papiamentu: mama
 * Persian:
 * Pidgin English: mama
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: mama
 * Romani: dej
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: mamã, mamå
 * Russian:
 * Samoan:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: mither, moder
 * Scottish Gaelic: màthair
 * Serbian:, , ,
 * Shona: amai
 * Sicilian: matri
 * Sinhala: අම්මා (ammā)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: mme
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan: m'ma
 * Sumerian: 𒂼 (AMA)
 * Swahili:
 * Swazi: máke
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: nánay, iná
 * Tajik: модар (modar)
 * Tamil: அம்மா (ammā)
 * Taos: kána
 * Telugu: అమ్మ (ammā)
 * Thai: (mâe),  (maandaa)
 * Tocharian A:
 * Tocharian B:
 * Tok Pisin: mama, mami
 * Tswana: mme
 * Tupinambá: sy
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: мати (máty)
 * Uyghur: ana, apa
 * Uzbek: oyim
 * Vietnamese:, , ,
 * Volapük: jipal, mot
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: mem
 * Western Apache: -maa, bąą, bąąhi, -máá
 * Wolof: yaay
 * Xhosa: mama, umama
 * Yiddish:
 * Yoruba: ìyá
 * Yucatec: mamah
 * Zulu: umama (nc 2)


 * Malayalam:, ഭാര്യാമാതവ്, അമ്മായിഅമ്മ


 * Persian: مادراندر, زن‌بابا
 * Swahili:


 * : (ma, amma)
 * : mamm, mammoù
 * : майка (májka)
 * : დედა (deda)
 * : sy
 * : sy


 * : ibu, bunda, ibunda
 * : emak
 * : whaea, hākui, kōkā, ūkaipō
 * : mamă
 * : అమ్మ
 * : (mae)

Verb

 * Danish: være mor for, tage sig ordentlig af
 * Dutch: bemoederen, koesteren
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Yiddish:

Noun

 * Catalan: mare
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אֵם (em)


 * Latin:
 * Sinhala: අම්මා
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili: