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English

Translations

female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant

Abkhaz: ан (ān)
Adyghe: ны (nə)
Afrikaans: formal moeder (af), informal ma (af)
Ainu: ハポ (hapo)
Akkadian: 𒂼 f (/ummu/)
Albanian: nënë (sq), ëmë (sq)
Alviri-Vidari: ننه‎ (nane) (Vidari)
American Sign Language: 5@Chin-ThumbBack Contact
Amharic: እናት (am) f (ʾənat)
Apache:
Western Apache: bimaa, bąą
Arabic: أُمّ‎ (ar) f (ʾumm), وَالِدَة‎ f (wālida), مَامَا‎ f (māmā) (colloquial, dialectal)
Aragonese: mai (an)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אמא‎ f (’imā’)

Syriac: ܐܡܐ‎ f (’imā’)
Armenian: մայր (hy) (mayr), (informal) մամա (hy) (mama)
Aromanian: mamã, mumã
Assamese: মা (ma), আই (ai)
Asturian: madre (ast), ma (ast)
Avar: эбел (èbel), баба (baba) (colloquial), буба (buba)
Aymara: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: ana (az)
Bakhtiari: دا‎ (dâ)
Baluchi: مات‎ (mát), ماس‎ (más)
Bashkir: әсәй (äsäy), әсә (äsä)
Basque: ama (eu)
Belarusian: ма́ці f (máci), ма́ма f (máma)
Bengali: মাতা (bn) (mata), মা (bn) (ma)
Breton: mamm (br) f
Bulgarian: ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
Burmese: အမေ (my) (a.me), အမိ (my) (a.mi.), (formal) မိခင် (my) (mi.hkang)
Buryat: эхэ (exe)
Catalan: mare (ca)
Central Dusun: tina
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀytá·-
Chechen: нана (nana)
Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏥ (unitsi)
Chichewa: mayi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 母親, 母亲 (mou⁵ can¹), 母 (yue) (mou⁵), 阿媽, 媽媽

Dungan: ма (ma), мучин (mučin), мама (mama), нён (ni͡on), чиннён (činni͡on)

Gan: 姆媽, 姆妈 (m1 ma)

Hakka: 母親, 母亲 (mû-chhîn), 娘親, 娘亲 (ngiòng-chhîn), 阿姆 (â-mê)

Mandarin: 母親 (zh), 母亲 (zh) (mǔqīn), 母 (zh) (mǔ), 媽媽 (zh), 妈妈 (zh) (māma), 娘 (zh) (niáng) (colloquial), 媽 (zh), 妈 (zh) (mā)

Min Dong: 依媽, 依妈 (ĭ-mă), 依奶 (ĭ-nā̤), 娘嬭‎, 娘妳 (nòng-nā̤)

Min Nan: 娘 (zh-min-nan) (niâ), 娘親, 娘亲 (niû-chhin), 母親, 母亲 (bó-chhin, bú-chhin), 阿姆 (zh-min-nan) (a-ḿ)

Wu: 姆媽, 姆妈 (mm ma), 媽媽, 妈妈 ('ma 'ma)

Xiang: 姆媽, 姆妈 (m1 ma1)
Chinook Jargon: mama, naha
Chukchi: ытԓя (ətla), ытԓьа (ətlʔa)
Chuukese: in
Chuvash: анне (anne)
Comanche: pia
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲙⲁⲩ f (mau)

Sahidic: ⲙⲁⲁⲩ f (maau)
Cornish: mamm f, dama f
Corsican: mamma (co) f
Crimean Tatar: ana
Czech: matka (cs)
Dalmatian: nina
Danish: moder (da), mor (da)
Dargwa: неш (neš)
Dhivehi: މަނމަ‎ (manma)
Dongxiang: ekie
Dutch: moeder (nl)
Eastern Mari: ава (ava)
Eastern Mnong: may
Egyptian:

(mwt f)
Elfdalian: muna f, mųor f
Erzya: ава (ava), ава (ava)
Eshtehardi: ننیه‎ (naniya)
Esperanto: patrino (eo)
Estonian: ema (et)
Etruscan: 𐌀𐌕𐌉 (ati)
Evenki: эни (eni)
Extremaduran: mairi
Faliscan: mate
Faroese: móðir (fo), mamma
Fijian: tina (fj)
Finnish: äiti (fi)
French: mère (fr)
Friulian: mari
Galician: nai (gl), mai (gl), madre (gl)
Georgian: დედა (deda)
German: Mutter (de)
Alemannic German: Mueter f
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (aiþei)
Greek: μητέρα (el) f (mitéra), (colloquial) μάνα (el) f (mána)
Ancient Greek: μήτηρ f (mḗtēr)
Greenlandic: anaana
Gujarati: મા f (mā)
Gunwinggu: karrang
Hausa: uwa (ha), inna
Hawaiian: makuahine
Hebrew: אֵם‎ (he) f (em)
Hindi: माता (hi) f (mātā), मां f (mā̃), मादर (hi) f (mādar), वालिदा (hi) f (vālidā)
Hittite: 𒀭𒈾𒀸
Hungarian: anya (hu)
Iban: indai
Icelandic: mamma (is), móðir (is)
Ido: matro (io)
Igbo: nne
Inari Sami: enni
Indonesian: ibu (id), bunda (id)
Ingrian: emoi
Ingush: нана (nana)
Interlingua: matre (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐊᓈᓇ (anaana)
Irish: máthair (ga)
Old Irish: máthir
Istriot: mare
Istro-Romanian: måie
Italian: madre (it)
Japanese: お母さん (ja) (おかあさん, okāsan), 母 (ja) (はは, haha) (humble), ママ (ja) (mama), お袋 (おふくろ, o-fukuro) (colloquial, one's mother)
Jarai: amĭ
Kaki Ae: naora
Kalmyk: эк (ek)
Kannada: ತಾಯಿ (kn) (tāyi)
Kapampangan: ima
Karachay-Balkar: ана
Karelian: emä
Kashubian: mëma
Kazakh: ана (kk) (ana)
Khmer: ម្ដាយ (km) (mdaay), ម៉ែ (km) (mae)
Kildin Sami: е̄ннҍ (jēnnʹ)
Koch Rajbangsi: মাও (maó)
Komi-Permyak: please add this translation if you can
Komi-Zyrian: мам (mam), ань (anʹ)
Korean: 엄마 (ko) (eomma), 어머니 (ko) (eomeoni), (honorific) 어머님 (ko) (eomeonim), 에미 (ko) (emi) (humble), 어미 (ko) (eomi)
Kriol: motha
Kurdish: dayik (ku), دایک‎ (dayk)
Kwak'wala: a̱bas
Kyrgyz: эне (ky) (ene)
Lao: ແມ່ (lo) (mǣ)
Latgalian: muote
Latin: māter (la), genetrix
Latvian: māte (lv)
Laz: დიდა (dida)
Lezgi: диде (dide)
Lithuanian: motė, motina (lt)
Livonian: jemā, ǟma
Lombard: mader

Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: moder (nds)

German Low German: Moder (nds) f
Luganda: maama
Luhya: mai
Luo: mama
Luxembourgish: Mamm (lb)
Lü: ᦶᦙᧈ (mɛ)
Macedonian: ма́јка f (májka)
Malagasy: reny (mg)
Malay: ibu (ms), emak
Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) (amma), മാതാവ് (ml) (mātāvŭ), (Animals) തള്ള (ml) (taḷḷa)
Maltese: omm, mamà, ma
Manchu: ᡝᠮᡝ (eme), ᡝᠨᡳᠶᡝ (eniye), ᠠᠵᠠ (aja)
Mandinka: naa
Manx: moir
Maori: matua wahine, ewe, whaea, whaene, kowhaea, kōkara (birth mother), ūkaipō (poetical)
Maranao: misina
Marathi: आई (mr) f (āī), माता f (mātā)
Maricopa: n'ay
Mazanderani: مار‎ (mâr)
Meru: mama
Mingrelian: დიდა (dida)
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Miyako: アンナ (anna)
Moksha: тядя (tjadja)
Mongolian: эх (mn) (eh), ээж (mn) (eež)
Muong: mễ
Mwali Comorian: mama
Nahuatl: nantli (nah)
Nama: ǁgûs
Navajo: amá
Nepali: आमा (ne) f (āmā)
Ngazidja Comorian: nya
Nivkh: ымк (ymk), ымык (ymyk), ымка (ymka), ымыка (ymyka)
Norman: méthe
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum, Bökingharde: mam f

Halligen, Goesharde, Karrharde: mäm c

Heligoland: Mem c

Sylt: Mooter c
Northern Sami: eadni
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mor (no) m or f, mamma (no) m, moder m

Nynorsk: mor (no) f
Novial: matra, patra
O'odham: je'e
Occitan: maire (oc)
Ojibwe: nimaamaa (my mother)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: мати f (mati)

Glagolitic: ⰿⰰⱅⰹ f (mati)
Old East Slavic: мати f (mati)
Old English: mōdor
Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (mātā)
Oriya: ମା (or) (ma)
Ossetian: мад (mad), мадӕ (madæ) (Digor)
Ottoman Turkish: مادر‎ (mâder), ام‎ (ümm), والده‎ (vâlide)
Pacoh: a-i, icán
Pashto: مور‎ (ps) f (mor)
Persian: مادر‎ (fa) (mâdar), مامان‎ (fa) f (mâmân), والده‎ (fa) (vâlede)
Phrygian: μητερε (mi̱tere)
Pirahã: baíxi
Pitjantjatjara: ngunytju
Polabian: motai
Polish: matka (pl), mama (pl), mać (pl) (archaic)
Portuguese: mãe (pt)
Punjabi: ਮਾਂ f (mā̃), ਮਾਤਾ f (mātā)
Quechua: mama (qu)
Rade: amĭ
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Romani: dej
Romanian: mamă (ro), maică (ro)
Romansch: mamma, mumma, mama, moma
Russian: мать (ru) f (matʹ), ма́ма (ru) f (máma) (colloquial), ма́тушка (ru) f (mátuška), (derogatory) мама́ша (ru) f (mamáša)
Rusyn: ма́ти f (máty)
Samoan: please add this translation if you can
Sanskrit: अम्बा (sa) f (ambā) मातर f (mātara)
Santali: ᱮᱝᱜᱚ (eṅgô)
Sardinian: mama, mamma, immamma
Scots: mither, moder
Scottish Gaelic: màthair (gd)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мат f, мати f, мајка f, родитељица f, рођеница f, матер f

Roman: mat (sh) f, mati (sh) f, majka (sh) f, roditeljica (sh) f, rođenica f, mater (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Shor: иче (içe), эне (ene)
Sicilian: matri (scn)
Sindhi: ماء‎ (māʾu), اما‎ (āmā)
Sinhalese: අම්මා (si) (ammā)
Skolt Sami: jeäˊnn
Slovak: matka (sk)
Slovene: mati (sl)
Somali: hooyo (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: maś f, maśeŕ f, maśerka f, mama f, maminka f

Upper Sorbian: mać (hsb) f
Sotho: mme (st)
Spanish: madre (es)
Sundanese: biang
Svan: დედე (dede)
Swahili: mzazi (sw), mama (sw)
Swedish: mor (sv), moder (sv), mamma (sv)
Sylheti: ꠝꠣ (ma)
Tagalog: ina (tl)
Tajik: модар (tg) (modar)
Talysh: ننه‎ (nana) (Asalem dialect)
Tamil: அம்மா (ta) (ammā), தாய் (ta) (tāy), அன்னை (ta) (aṉṉai), யாய் (ta) (yāy)
Tatar: ана (tt) (ana), әни (tt) (äni)
Telugu: తల్లి (te) (talli), అమ్మ (te) f (amma)
Thai: แม่ (th) (mɛ̂ɛ), มารดา (th) (maan-daa)
Tibetan: ཨ་མ (a ma), ཨ་མ་ལགས (a ma lags) (honorific)
Tigrinya: ኣደ (ʾadä)
Tocharian A: mācar
Tocharian B: mācer
Tok Pisin: mama, mami
Tswana: mme
Turkish: anne (tr), ana (tr)
Turkmen: eje
Cyrillic: еҗе
Tuvan: ава (ava), авам (avam), авай (avay), ийе (ïyä)
Tày: 嗒, 嗒, 嗩
Udmurt: анай (anaj)
Ukrainian: ма́ти (uk) f (máty), ма́ма (uk) f (máma), ма́тір f (mátir), не́ня (uk) (nénja), мату́ся f (matúsja), ма́мця f (mámcja)
Urdu: ماتا‎ f (mātā), ماں‎ f (mā̃), مادر‎ (ur) f (mādar), والدہ‎ (ur) f (vālidā)
Uyghur: ئانا‎ (ug) (ana), ئاپا‎ (ug) (apa)
Uzbek: ona (uz)
Cyrillic: она (uz)
Venetian: mare (vec)
Veps: mam
Vietnamese: mẹ (vi), (South Vietnam) má (vi), mạ (vi), mệ (vi), mợ (vi), bầm (vi), u (vi), nạ (vi)
Volapük: mot (vo)
Walloon: mere (wa)
Welsh: mam (cy)
West Frisian: mem (fy)
Wiradhuri: gunhi
Wolof: ndey, yaay (wo)
Xhosa: unyoko, unina
Yakut: ийэ (iye)
Yiddish: מוטער‎ f (muter), מאַמע‎ f (mame)
Yoruba: ìyá, abiyamo̩
Yucatec Maya: na'
Zazaki: ma
Zealandic: moeder f, moer f
Zhuang: ma, maj, meh, mih, caq
Zulu: (my) umama (zu) class 1a/2a, (your) unyoko class 1a/2a, (his/her) unina class 1a/2a
ǃXóõ: qáe

one’s female parent

Abkhaz: ан (ān)
Adyghe: нан (nān)
Afrikaans: formal moeder (af), informal ma (af)
Ainu: ハポ (hapo)
Akkadian: 𒂼 f (/ummu/)
Albanian: nënë (sq), mëmë (sq)
Aleut: anax
American Sign Language: 5@Chin-ThumbBack Contact
Arabic: أُمّ‎ (ar) f (ʾumm)
Egyptian Arabic: ماما‎ f (mama), أم‎ f (ʾom), والدة‎ f (walda)
Aragonese: mai (an)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אמא‎ f (’imā’)

Syriac: ܐܡܐ‎ f (’imā’)
Armenian: մայր (hy) (mayr), մայրիկ (hy) (mayrik), (informal) մամա (hy) (mama)
Asturian: madre (ast), ma (ast)
Aymara: tayca
Azerbaijani: ana (az), (dialect) ciyi
Basque: ama (eu)
Belarusian: ма́ці f (máci), мату́ля f (matúlja), ма́ма f (máma)
Bemba: mayo
Blackfoot: iksísst
Breton: mamm (br)
Bulgarian: ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
Catalan: mare (ca)
Cebuano: inahan
Chamorro: nana
Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏥ (unitsi)
Chinese:
Dungan: ма (ma)

Mandarin: 媽媽 (zh), 妈妈 (zh) (māma), 母親 (zh), 母亲 (zh) (mǔqīn)
Chinook Jargon: mama, naha
Chiricahua: -má
Cornish: mabm, mamm
Crimean Tatar: ana
Czech: matka (cs)
Danish: moder (da), mor (da)
Dutch: moeder (nl)
Eastern Mnong: may
Esperanto: patrino (eo)
Estonian: ema (et)
Etruscan: 𐌀𐌕𐌉 (ati)
Faroese: móðir (fo)
Finnish: äiti (fi)
French: mère (fr)
Galician: nai (gl), mai (gl), madre (gl)
Georgian: დედა (deda)
German: Mutter (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (aiþei)
Greek:
Ancient: μήτηρ f (mḗtēr)

Modern: μητέρα (el) f (mitéra), (colloquial) μάνα (el) f (mána)
Guaraní: sy (gn)
Gunwinggu: karrang
Hawaiian: meme, nene, eme
Hebrew: אֵם‎ (he) f (em), אִמָּא‎ (he) f (ímma)
Hittite: [Term?] c (/anna/)
Hungarian: anya (hu)
Icelandic: móðir (is)
Ido: matro (io)
Interlingua: matre (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐊᓈᓇ (anaana)
Irish: máthair (ga)
Italian: madre (it)
Japanese: お母さん (ja) (おかあさん, okāsan), 母 (ja) (はは, haha)
Jicarilla: -’máá
Kazakh: Шеше (kk) (Şeşe), ана (kk) (ana), әже (kk) (äje)
Khmer: ម្ដាយ (km) (mdaay), ម៉ែ (km) (mae)
Kongo: ngudi
Korean: 엄마 (ko) (eomma), 어머니 (ko) (eomeoni)
Kurdish: dayik (ku), دایک‎ (dayk)
Kyrgyz: эне (ky) (ene)
Latin: māter (la), genetrix
Latvian: māte (lv)
Laz: დიდა (dida)
Ligurian: Moæ
Lipan: -’má
Lithuanian: motė, motina (lt)
Livonian: jemā, ǟma
Luxembourgish: Mamm (lb)
Macedonian: мајка f (majka)
Malagasy: reny (mg)
Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) f (amma)

Mansi: ся̄нь
Manx: mayragh
Marshallese: jinen
Mingrelian: დიდა (dida)
Miyako: アンナ (anna)
Mohawk: -'nihstenha
Muong: mễ
Nahuatl: nantli (nah)
Navajo: -má, (amá, "someone’s mother")
Northern Sami: eadni
Northern Sotho: mma
Norwegian:
Bokmål: mor (no) m or f, mamma (no) m, moder m

Nynorsk: mor (no) f
Novial: matra, patra
Occitan: maire (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: мати f (mati)

Glagolitic: ⰏⰀⰕⰉ f (MATI)
Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (mātā)
Papiamentu: mama
Persian: مادر‎ (fa) (mâdar)
Pirahã: baíxi
Polish: matka (pl), mama (pl)
Portuguese: mãe (pt)
Quechua: mama (Equadorian Quechua)
Quechua: mama (qu)
Romani: dej
Romanian: mamă (ro)
Romansch: mamã, mamå
Russian: мать (ru) f (matʹ)
Rwanda-Rundi: mama
Samoan: tina (sm)
Sanskrit: मातृ (sa) f (mātṛ)
Scots: mither, moder
Scottish Gaelic: màthair (gd)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мајка f, матер f

Roman: majka (sh) f, mater (sh) f
Shona: amai
Sicilian: matri (scn)
Sinhalese: අම්මා (si) (ammā)
Slovak: matka (sk)
Slovene: mati (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: maś f

Upper Sorbian: mać (hsb) f
Sotho: mme (st)
Spanish: madre (es)
Sranan Tongo: m'ma
Sumerian: 𒂼 (AMA)
Svan: დედე (dede)
Swahili: mama (sw)
Swazi: máke (ss)
Swedish: mor (sv)
Tagalog: nánay, iná
Tajik: модар (tg) (modar)
Tamil: அம்மா (ta) (ammā)
Taos: kána
Telugu: అమ్మ (te) (amma), Template:l+
Thai: แม่ (th) (mɛ̂ɛ), มารดา (th) (maan-daa)
Tocharian A: mācar
Tocharian B: mācer
Tok Pisin: mama, mami
Tswana: mme
Tupinambá: sy
Turkish: anne (tr)
Turkmen: eje
Tày: 嗒, 嗒, 嗩
Ukrainian: ма́ти (uk) f (máty)
Uyghur: ana, apa (ug)
Uzbek: oyim (uz)
Vietnamese: má (vi), mẹ (vi), mợ (vi), u (vi), mạ (vi), nạ (vi), bầm (vi), mệ (vi)
Volapük: jipal (vo), mot (vo)
Welsh: mam (cy)
West Frisian: mem (fy)
Western Apache: -maa, bąą, bąąhi, -máá
Wolof: yaay (wo)
Xhosa: mama, umama
Yiddish: מאַמע‎ f (mame)
Yoruba: ìyá
Yucatec Maya: mamah
Zulu: (my) umama (zu) class 1a/2a, (your) unyoko class 1a/2a, (his/her) unina class 1a/2a

female parent of an animal

Finnish: emo (fi)

Maori: karawa, tīaka, u(w)ha

female ancestor

Finnish: esiäiti (fi)

source or origin

Finnish: äiti (fi)
Japanese: 元 (ja) (もと, moto)
Kunigami: 元 (むとﾟぅー, mutuu)
Miyako: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)

Okinawan: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)
Yaeyama: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)
Yonaguni: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)

something that is the greatest of its kind

Catalan: mare (ca) f
Finnish: äiti (fi)
German: Mutter (de) f
Greek: μητέρα (el) (mitéra)
Hebrew: אֵם‎ (he) f (em)
Japanese: (best) 最高の (ja) (さいこうの, saikō no), (worst) 最悪の (ja) (さいあくの, saiaku no), (biggest, greatest) 最大の (ja) (さいだいの, saidai no)

Latin: maximus (la)
Portuguese: mãe (pt) f
Sinhalese: අම්මා (si) f (ammā)
Slovene: mati (sl) f
Swahili: mama (sw)

title of respect for one's mother-in-law

Finnish: rouva (fi)
Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) (amma), ഭാര്യാമാതവ് (bhāryāmātavŭ), അമ്മായിഅമ്മ (ammāyiamma)

Persian: مادراندر‎ (mâdarandar), زن‌بابا‎ (zanbâbâ)
Swahili: mama (sw)

any elderly woman

Finnish: rouva (fi)

Tagalog: manang

any person or entity which performs mothering

Finnish: äiti (fi)

principal piece of an astrolabe

female superior or head of a religious house

Finnish: äiti (fi)

hysterical passion — see hysteria

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Bengali: (ma, amma) f
Breton: ^{(please verify)} mamm (br) f, ^{(please verify)} mammoù (br) pl
Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
Central Sierra Miwok: ^{(please verify)} ʔytáˑ-
Georgian: ^{(please verify)} დედა (deda)

Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} sy (gn)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} ibu (id), ^{(please verify)} bunda (id), ^{(please verify)} ibunda (id)
Maori: ^{(please verify)} whaea, ^{(please verify)} hākui, ^{(please verify)} kōkā, ^{(please verify)} ūkaipō
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} mamă (ro) f

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