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äiti — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ma noun An informal word for "mother".
  • mother noun A female parent.
  • motherhood noun The state or experience of being a mother.
  • mum noun Mother — the common British and Irish term.
  • mummy noun A dead body preserved through embalming and wrapping, especially as practised in ancient Egypt.

Senses

äiti is used for these senses in English:

  • ma (colloquial) The landlady of a theater.
  • mother A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
  • motherhood Mothers, considered as a group.
  • mum (Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
  • mummy (chiefly, UK, New England, usually, childish) mother.

mother — full definition

  1. noun A female parent.
  2. noun The origin or source of something.
  3. verb To care for someone the way a mother would, sometimes to an overprotective degree.

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