mother/translations

This page contains translations for mother. See the main entry for more information.

English

Noun

Translations

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

• Abkhaz: ан (an)
• Acehnese: ma, mak
• Adyghe: ны (nə)
• Afar: ina
• Afrikaans: (formal) moeder (af), (informal) ma (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕎𐔴 (ne)
• Ainu: ハポ (hapo)
• Akan: ɛna
• Akkadian: 𒂼 f (/⁠ummu⁠/)
• Aklanon: ina
• Albanian: nënë (sq), ëmë (sq), mëmë (sq) f
• Aleut: anax, anax̂
• Alviri-Vidari: ننه (nane) (Vidari)
• American Sign Language: 5@Chin-ThumbBack Contact
• Amharic: እናት (am) f (ʾənat)
• Amis: ina
• Andi: ила (ila)
• Apache:

  Chiricahua: -má

  Western Apache: bimaa, bąą

• Arabic: أُمّ (ar) f (ʔumm), وَالِدَة (ar) f (wālida), مَامَا f (māmā) (familiar or childish)

  Gulf Arabic: أُمّ f (umm)

• Aragonese: mai (an) f
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܸܡܵܐ f (yimma), ܝܵܠܘܿܕܬܵܐ f (yalodta)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܡܐ f (ʾemmā), ܝܠܘܕܬܐ f (yālōḏtā)

  Jewish Aramaic: אִמָּא f (ʾimmā)

• Araona: kwala, wadi, waepei, mama
• Armenian: մայր (hy) (mayr), (informal) մամա (hy) (mama)
• Aromanian: mamã f, mumã f
• Asilulu: ina
• Assamese: মা (ma), আই (ai)
• Asturian: madre (ast) f, ma (ast) f
• Avar: эбел (ebel), баба (baba) (colloquial), буба (buba)
• Avestan: 𐬠𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬍 f (bar^əθrī), 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)
• Aymara: mama
• Azerbaijani: ana (az) validə
• Bakhtiari: دا (dâ)
• Balinese: ina, biyang
• Baluchi: مات (mát), ماس (más)
• Bashkir: әсәй (əsəy), әсә (əsə)
• Basque: ama (eu)
• Belarusian: ма́ці f (máci), ма́тка f (mátka)
• Bemba: mayo
• Bengali: আম্মা (bn) (amma), আম্মু (ammu), মাতা (bn) (mata), মা (bn) (ma)
• Bhojpuri: माई (māī)
• Biak: ina
• Bikol Central: ina (bcl)
• Bima: ina
• Blackfoot: iksísst
• Bodo: आइ (ai) (1st person), बिमा (bima) (3rd person)
• Borôro: tʃe
• Breton: mamm (br) f
• Brunei Malay: babu, mama
• Budukh: диде (dide)
• Buginese: ᨕᨗᨊ (ina)
• Bulgarian: ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
• Burmese: အမေ (my) (a.me), အမိ (my) (a.mi.), (formal) မိခင် (my) (mi.hkang), မေမေ (my) (meme)
• Buryat: эхэ (exe)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ма́ти f (máty), ма́терь f (máterʹ), ма́ма f (máma)
• Casiguran Dumagat Agta: ína
• Catalan: mare (ca) f
• Cebuano: inahan
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵎⵎⴰ (mma)
• Central Bontoc: ína
• Central Dusun: tina
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀytá·-
• Chechen: нана (nana)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏥ (unitsi)
• Chichewa: mayi
• Chickasaw: ishk'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 母親／母亲 (mou⁵ can¹), 母 (yue) (mou⁵), 阿媽／阿妈, 媽媽／妈妈

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

  Eastern Min: 依媽／依妈 (ĭ-mă), 依奶 (ĭ-nā̤), 娘嬭／娘奶 (nòng-nā̤)

  Gan: 姆媽／姆妈 (m¹ ma)

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

  Hokkien: 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)

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

  Wu: 姆媽／姆妈, 媽媽／妈妈

  Xiang: 姆媽／姆妈 (m¹ ma¹)

• Chinook Jargon: mama, naha
• Chukchi: ытԓя (ətla), ытԓьа (ətlʔa)
• Chuukese: in
• Chuvash: анне (anne)
• Coastal Kadazan: ina
• Comanche: pia
• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲙⲁⲩ f (mau)

  Sahidic: ⲙⲁⲁⲩ f (maau)

• Cornish: mamm f, dama f
• Corsican: mamma (co) f
• Crimean Tatar: ana
• Cuyunon: ina
• Czech: matka (cs) f
• Dakota: iná
• Dalmatian: nina f
• Danish: moder (da), mor (da) c
• Dargwa: неш (neš)
• Dhivehi: މަނމަ (manma)
• Dongxiang: ekie
• Dutch: moeder (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ཨའི (a'i)
• Eastern Arrernte: meye
• Eastern Mnong: may
• Egyptian: (mwt f)
• Elfdalian: muna f, mųor f
• Erzya: ава (ava)
• Eshtehardi: ننیه (naniya)
• Esperanto: patrino (eo)
• Estonian: ema (et)
• Etruscan: 𐌀𐌕𐌉 (ati)
• Even: энин (əņin)
• Evenki: энин (əņin)
• Extremaduran: mairi
• Faliscan: mate
• Faroese: móðir (fo) f, mamma (fo) f
• Fataluku: nalu
• Fijian: tina (fj)
• Finnish: äiti (fi)
• French: mère (fr) f, maman (fr) f
• Friulian: mari
• Galician: nai (gl) f, mai (gl) f, madre (gl) f
• Georgian: დედა (ka) (deda)
• German: Mutter (de) f, Mutti (de) f, Mama (de) f

  Alemannic German: Mueter f

  Bavarian: muadda

• Gilaki: مر (mar)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (aiþei)
• Greek: μητέρα (el) f (mitéra), (colloquial) μάνα (el) f (mána)

  Ancient: μήτηρ f (mḗtēr)

• Greenlandic: anaana
• Guaraní: sy (gn)
• 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, ina
• Icelandic: mamma (is) f, móðir (is) f
• Ido: matro (io)
• Ifè: ínà
• Igbo: nne (ig)
• Indonesian: ibu (id), bunda (id)
• Ingrian: emä, emo
• Ingush: нана (nana)
• Interlingua: matre (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᐊᓈᓇ (anaana)
• Inupiaq: aana, aaka
• Iranun: ina'
• Irish: máthair (ga) f

  Old Irish: máthir

• Isnag: ina
• Istriot: mare f
• Istro-Romanian: måie f
• Italian: madre (it) f
• Itawit: ina
• Ivatan: ina
• Japanese: お母さん (ja) (おかあさん, okāsan), 母 (ja) (はは, haha) (humble), ママ (ja) (mama), お袋 (ja) (おふくろ, o-fukuro) (colloquial, one's mother)
• Jarai: amĭ
• Jarawa: kaja
• Javanese: ibu (jv)
• Jeju: 어멍 (eomeong)
• K'iche': chuch
• Kaki Ae: naora
• Kalmyk: эк (ek)
• Kambera: ina
• Kamta: (Koch Rajbangsi) মাও (maó)
• Kanakanabu: cina
• Kankanaey: iná
• Kannada: ತಾಯಿ (kn) (tāyi)
• Kapampangan: ima, indu
• Karachay-Balkar: ана (ana)
• Karao: ina
• Karelian: emä
• Karok: táat, ihkuus (deceased)
• Kashmiri: موج (mōj), مٲج (mạ̄j)
• Kashubian: mëma f, mac (csb)
• Kazakh: ана (ana)
• Khmer: ម្ដាយ (km) (mdaay), ម៉ែ (km) (mae)
• Khoekhoe: ǁgûs
• Komi-Permyak: мам (mam)
• Komi-Zyrian: мам (mam), ань (ań)
• Komodo: ina
• Korean: 엄마 (ko) (eomma), 어머니 (ko) (eomeoni), (honorific) 어머님 (ko) (eomeonim), 에미 (ko) (emi) (humble), 어미 (ko) (eomi), 모친(母親) (ko) (mochin) (formal)
• Kriol: motha
• Kulon-Pazeh: ina
• Kumyk: ана (ana)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دایک (ckb) (dayk)

  Northern Kurdish: dayik (ku) f, dê (ku) f

• Kwak'wala: a̱bas
• Kyrgyz: эне (ky) (ene)
• Lak: нину (ninu)
• Lakota: iná
• Lao: ແມ່ (lo) (mǣ)
• Latgalian: muote
• Latin: māter (la) f, genetrix f
• Latvian: māte (lv) f
• Laz: დიდა (dida)
• Leti (Indonesia): ina
• Lezgi: диде (dide)
• Ligurian: moæ f
• Limos Kalinga: ina
• Lithuanian: motė f, motina (lt) f
• Livonian: jemā, ǟma
• Lombard: mamma f, mader (lmo)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: moder (nds)

  German Low German: Moder (nds) f

• Lü: ᦶᦙᧈ (mae¹)
• Luganda: maama
• Luhya: mai
• Luo: mama
• Lushootseed: sk'ʷuy
• Luxembourgish: Mamm (lb) f
• Macedonian: ма́јка (mk) f (májka)
• Maguindanao: ina
• Makasae: ina
• Makasar: ina
• Malagasy: reny (mg)
• Malay: ibu (ms), emak (ms)
• Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) (amma), മാതാവ് (ml) (mātāvŭ), (Animals) തള്ള (ml) (taḷḷa)
• Maltese: omm, mamà, ma
• Manchu: ᡝᠮᡝ (eme), ᡝᠨᡳᠶᡝ (eniye), ᠠᠵᠠ (aja), ᠨᠠᡳᠨᠠᡳ (nainai)
• Mandinka: naa
• Mansaka: ina
• Manx: moir
• Maori: matua wahine (mi), ewe, whaea, whaene, kowhaea, kōkara (birth mother), ūkaipō (poetical)
• Maranao: ina', misina
• Marathi: आई (mr) f (āī), माता f (mātā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ава (ava)

• Maricopa: n'ay
• Mayoyao Ifugao: iná
• Mazanderani: مار (mâr)
• Mbyá Guaraní: xy
• Mentawai: ina
• Meru: mama
• Middle Korean: 어〮미〮 (émí)
• Minangkabau: mande (min)
• Mingrelian: დიდა (dida)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Miyako: アンナ (anna)
• Moksha: тядя (ťaďa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эх (mn) (ex), ээж (mn) (eež)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠬᠡ (eke), ᠡᠵᠢ (eǰi)

• Motu: ina
• Muong: mễ
• Mwali Comorian: mama
• Nahuatl: nantli (nah)
• Nanai: энин (enin)
• Nauna: ina
• Navajo: amá
• Nepali: आमा (ne) f (āmā)
• Ngadha: ina
• Ngazidja Comorian: nya
• Nheengatu: manha
• Nias: ina (nia)
• Nivkh: ымк (əmk), ымык (əmək), ымка (əmka), ымыка (əməka)
• Norman: méthe f
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum, Bökingharde: mam f

  Halligen, Goesharde, Karrharde: mäm c

  Heligoland: Mem c

  Sylt: Mooter c

• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ся̄нь (sâ̄nʹ)
• Northern Ohlone: ká̄na 'ek'án̄an
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mor (no) m or f, mamma (no) m, moder m

  Nynorsk: mor (no) f

• O'odham: je'e
• Occitan: mair (oc) f, maire (oc) f
• Odia: ମା (or) (mā)
• Ojibwe: (my mother) nimaamaa, ninga
• Okinawan: あんまー (anmā)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мати f (mati)

  Glagolitic: ⰿⰰⱅⰻ f (mati)

• Old East Slavic: мати f (mati)
• Old English: mōdor f
• Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (m-a-t-a /⁠mātā⁠/)
• Old Tupi: sy
• Oromo: haadha
• Ossetian: мад (mad), мадӕ (madæ) (Digor)
• Ottoman Turkish: مادر (mâder), ام (ümm), والده (vâlide)
• Pacoh: a-i, icán
• Paiwan: ina (vocative)
• Pangasinan: iná
• Pannonian Rusyn: мац f (mac)
• Pashto: مور (ps) f (mor), اتکو (ps) f (atko), اتکړه f (atkaṛa)
• Paulohi: ina
• Pennsylvania German: Mudder f, Mammi f
• Persian:

  Dari: مَادَر (fa) (mādar), وَالِدَه (fa) (wālida)

  Iranian Persian: مادَر (fa) (mâdar), مامان (fa) (mâmân), والِدِه (fa) (vâlede)

• Phrygian: μητερε (mētere)
• Pirahã: baíxi
• Pitjantjatjara: ngunytju
• Plautdietsch: Mutta (nds) f
• Polabian: motai f
• Polish: matka (pl) f, mama (pl) f, mać (pl) f (archaic), mamusia (pl), matula (pl), matuchna (pl), mateczka (pl), mamuśka (pl), matuś (pl), matuśka
• Portuguese: mãe (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਾਂ f (mā̃), ਮਾਤਾ f (mātā)
• Q'eqchi: naʼ
• Quechua: mama (qu)
• Rabha: আয়া (aya)
• Rade: amĭ
• Romani: daj f

  Welsh Romani: daj f

• Romanian: mamă (ro) f, maică (ro) f
• Romansch: mamma f, mumma f, mama f, moma f
• Russian: мать (ru) f (matʹ), ма́ма (ru) f (máma) (colloquial), ма́тушка (ru) f (mátuška), (derogatory) мама́ша (ru) f (mamáša)
• Sabu: ina
• Saisiyat: ina
• Salar: ama, ica
• Sami:

  Inari: enni

  Kildin: е̄ннҍ (jienn’)

  Lule: ieddne

  Northern: eadni

  Skolt: jeäˊnn

  Southern: tjidtjie

• Samoan: tinā
• Sanskrit: अम्बा (sa) f (ambā) मातर f (mātara), (derogatory) अक्का (sa) f (akkā)
• Santali: ᱮᱝᱜᱚ (eṅgô)
• Sardinian: mama f, mamma f, immamma f
• Sasak: ina
• Saterland Frisian: Muur
• Scots: mither, moder
• Scottish Gaelic: màthair (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏ти f, ма̑јка f, родитѐљица f

  Roman: mȁti (sh) f, mȃjka (sh) f, roditèljica (sh) f

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sherpa: འ་མ ('a ma)
• Shor: иче (içe), эне (ene)
• Sicilian: matri (scn) f
• Sidamo: ama
• Sika: ina
• Silesian: matka f
• Simeulue: ina
• Sindhi: ماء (māʾu), اما (āmā)
• Sinhalese: අම්මා (si) (ammā)
• Slovak: matka (sk) f
• Slovene: mati (sl) f
• Somali: hooyo (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: maś f, maśeŕ f, maśerka f, mama f, maminka f

  Upper Sorbian: mać (hsb) f

• Sotho: mme (st)
• Southern Altai: эне (ene)
• Spanish: madre (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: m'ma
• Sundanese: biang, indung
• Svan: დედე (dede)
• Swahili: mzazi (sw), mama (sw)
• Swedish: mor (sv) c, moder (sv) c, mamma (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠝꠣ (ma)
• Tabasaran: дада (dada)
• Tagalog: ina (tl)
• Tahitian: metua vahine
• Tajik: модар (tg) (modar), волида (volida)
• Talysh: moa, ننه (nana) (Asalem dialect)
• Tamil: அம்மா (ta) (ammā), தாய் (ta) (tāy), அன்னை (ta) (aṉṉai), யாய் (ta) (yāy)
• Tarantino: mamme f
• Tarifit: yemma f
• Tat: may, dədə
• Tatar: ана (tt) (ana), әни (tt) (äni)
• Tausug: ina
• Tày: me̱, ằm
• Telugu: తల్లి (te) (talli), అమ్మ (te) f (amma)
• Ternate: yaya
• Tetum: inan
• Thai: แม่ (th) (mɛ̂ɛ), มารดา (th) (maan-daa)
• Thao: ina
• Tibetan: ཨ་མ (a ma), ཨ་མ་ལགས (a ma lags) (honorific)
• Tigrinya: ኣደ (ʾadä)
• Toba Batak: ina
• Tocharian A: mācar
• Tocharian B: mācer
• Tok Pisin: mama, mami
• Tongan: fa'ē
• Tswana: mme
• Tupinambá: sy, si
• Turkish: anne (tr), ana (tr)
• Turkmen: eje

  Cyrillic: еҗе

• Tuvan: ава (ava), авам (avam), авай (avay), ийе (iye)
• Udi: нана (nana)
• Udmurt: анай (anaj)
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎎 (ủm)
• 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), مادَر (ur) f (mādar), والِدَہ (ur) f (vālida)
• Uyghur: ئانا (ug) (ana), ئاپا (ug) (apa)
• Uzbek: ona (uz), volida (uz) (dated)

  Cyrillic: она (uz) (ona)

• Venetan: mare (vec) f
• Veps: mam
• Vietnamese: mẹ (vi), má (vi), mạ (vi), mệ (vi), mợ (vi), bầm (vi), u (vi), nạ (vi), đẻ (vi), cái (vi)
• Volapük: mot (vo)
• Walloon: mere (wa) f
• Welsh: mam (cy) f
• West Frisian: mem (fy) f
• Wiradjuri: gunhi
• Wolio: ina
• Wolof: ndey, yaay (wo)
• Xhosa: unyoko, unina
• Yagara: budang
• Yakut: ийэ (iye)
• Yámana: tapi
• Yankunytjatjara: ngunytju
• Yiddish: מוטער f (muter), מאַמע f (mame)
• Yoruba: ìyá, abiyamọ, iye, yèyé, màmá, mọ́mì
• Yucatec Maya: na'
• Yup'ik: aana
• Zande: na
• Zazaki: ma (diq)
• 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 (an)
• Adyghe: нан (nan)
• Afrikaans: (formal) moeder (af), (informal) ma (af)
• Ainu: ハポ (hapo)
• Akkadian: 𒂼 f (/⁠ummu⁠/)
• Albanian: nënë (sq) f, mëmë (sq) f
• Aleut: anax
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• Arabic: أُمّ (ar) f (ʔumm)

  Egyptian Arabic: ماما f (mama), أم f (ʔom), والدة f (walda)

  North Levantine Arabic: إم f (ʔimm), ماما f (māma)

  South Levantine Arabic: إم f (ʔimm), ماما f (māma)

• Aragonese: mai (an) f
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܸܡܵܐ f (yimma), ܝܵܠܘܿܕܬܵܐ f (yalodta)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܡܐ f (ʾemmā), ܝܠܘܕܬܐ f (yālōḏtā)

  Jewish Aramaic: אִמָּא f (ʾimmā)

• Armenian: մայր (hy) (mayr), մայրիկ (hy) (mayrik), (informal) մամա (hy) (mama)
• Asturian: madre (ast) f, ma (ast) f
• Aymara: tayca
• Azerbaijani: ana (az)
• Basque: ama (eu)
• Belarusian: ма́ці f (máci), мату́ля f (matúlja), ма́ма f (máma)
• Bemba: mayo
• Bengali: আম্মা (bn) (amma), আম্মু (ammu), মাতা (bn) (mata), মা (bn) (ma)
• Bikol Central: ina (bcl)
• Blackfoot: iksísst
• Breton: mamm (br)
• Bulgarian: ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
• Catalan: mare (ca) f
• Cebuano: inahan
• Chamorro: nana
• Chechen: нана (nana)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏥ (unitsi)
• Chickasaw: ishk'
• Chinese:

  Dungan: ма (ma)

  Mandarin: 媽媽／妈妈 (zh) (māma), 母親／母亲 (zh) (mǔqīn)

• Chinook Jargon: mama, naha
• Chiricahua: -má
• Cornish: mabm, mamm
• Crimean Tatar: ana
• Czech: matka (cs) f
• Danish: moder (da), mor (da) c
• Dutch: moeder (nl) f
• Eastern Mnong: may
• Esperanto: patrino (eo) f
• Estonian: ema (et)
• Etruscan: 𐌀𐌕𐌉 (ati)
• Faroese: móðir (fo)
• Finnish: äiti (fi)
• French: mère (fr) f, maman (fr) f
• Galician: nai (gl) f, mai (gl) f, madre (gl) f
• Georgian: დედა (ka) (deda)
• German: Mutter (de) f, Mutti (de) f, Mama (de) f
• 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)
• Hiligaynon: iloy
• Hittite: [Term?] c (/⁠anna⁠/)
• Hungarian: anya (hu)
• Icelandic: móðir (is) f
• Ido: matro (io)
• Interlingua: matre (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᐊᓈᓇ (anaana)
• Irish: máthair (ga) f
• Italian: madre (it) f
• Japanese: お母さん (ja) (おかあさん, okāsan), 母 (ja) (はは, haha)
• Jicarilla: -’máá
• Kapampangan: indu
• Kashmiri: موج (mōj), مٲج (mạ̄j)
• Kazakh: Шеше (kk) (Şeşe), ана (ana), әже (kk) (äje)
• Khmer: ម្ដាយ (km) (mdaay), ម៉ែ (km) (mae)
• Kongo: ngudi
• Korean: 엄마 (ko) (eomma), 어머니 (ko) (eomeoni)
• Kumyk: ана (ana)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دایک (ckb) (dayk)

  Northern Kurdish: dayik (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: эне (ky) (ene)
• Latin: māter (la) f, genetrix f
• Latvian: māte (lv) f
• Laz: დიდა (dida)
• Ligurian: Moæ
• Lipan: -’má
• Lithuanian: motė f, motina (lt) f
• Livonian: jemā, ǟma
• Luxembourgish: Mamm (lb) f
• Macedonian: мајка (mk) f (majka)
• Malagasy: reny (mg)
• Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) f (amma)
• Manx: mayragh
• Marshallese: jinen
• Mingrelian: დიდა (dida)
• Miyako: アンナ (anna)
• Mòcheno: mama f
• Mohawk: -'nihstenha
• Muong: mễ
• Nahuatl: nantli (nah)
• Navajo: -má (amá (“someone’s mother”))
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ся̄нь (sâ̄nʹ)
• Northern Sami: eadni
• Northern Sotho: mma
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mor (no) m or f, mamma (no) m, moder m

  Nynorsk: mor (no) f

• Occitan: maire (oc) f
• Ojibwe: (my mother) nimaamaa, ninga
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мати f (mati)

  Glagolitic: ⰏⰀⰕⰉ f (MATI)

• Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠 (m-a-t-a /⁠mātā⁠/)
• Old Tupi: sy
• Papiamentu: mama
• Pashto: مور (ps)
• Pennsylvania German: Mudder f, Mammi f
• Persian:

  Dari: مَادَر (fa) (mādar), وَالِدَه (fa) (wālida)

  Iranian Persian: مادَر (fa) (mâdar), والِدِه (fa) (vâlede)

• Pirahã: baíxi
• Polish: matka (pl) f, mama (pl) f
• Portuguese: mãe (pt) f
• Quechua: ^{(please verify)} mama (qu) (Equadorian Quechua)
• Romani: daj f

  Welsh Romani: daj f

• Romanian: mamă (ro) f
• Romansch: mamã, mamå
• Russian: мать (ru) f (matʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi: mama
• Samoan: tina (sm)
• Sanskrit: मातृ (sa) f (mātṛ)
• Saterland Frisian: Muur
• Scots: mither, moder
• Scottish Gaelic: màthair (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏ти f, ма̑јка f

  Roman: mȁti (sh) f, mȃjka (sh) f

• Shona: amai
• Sicilian: matri (scn)
• Sinhalese: අම්මා (si) (ammā)
• Slovak: matka (sk) f
• Slovene: mati (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: maś f

  Upper Sorbian: mać (hsb) f

• Sotho: mme (st)
• Spanish: madre (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: m'ma
• Sumerian: 𒂼 (AMA)
• Svan: დედე (dede)
• Swahili: mama (sw)
• Swazi: máke (ss)
• Swedish: mor (sv)
• Tagalog: nánay (tl), iná (tl)
• Tajik: модар (tg) (modar)
• Tamil: அம்மா (ta) (ammā)
• Taos: kána
• Tarifit: yemma f
• Tày: me̱, ằm
• Telugu: అమ్మ (te) (amma), తల్లి (te) (talli)
• 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
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎎 (ủm)
• 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) f
• Western Apache: -maa, bąą, bąąhi, -máá
• Wolof: yaay (wo)
• Xhosa: mama, umama
• Yiddish: מאַמע f (mame), מוטער f (muter)
• Yoruba: ìyá
• Yucatec Maya: mamah
• Zazaki: mar (diq)
• Zulu: (my) umama (zu) class 1a/2a, (your) unyoko class 1a/2a, (his/her) unina class 1a/2a

female parent of an animal

• Bulgarian: ма́йка (bg) f (májka)
• Danish: moder (da) c
• Finnish: emo (fi), emä (fi)
• French: mère (fr) f
• German: Mutter (de) f
• Indonesian: induk (id)
• Maori: karawa, tīaka, u(w)ha
• Polish: matka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mãe (pt) f, progenitora (pt) f
• Russian: мать (ru) f (matʹ)
• Ukrainian: ма́ти (uk) f (máty)

female ancestor

• Danish: oldemoder c
• Finnish: esiäiti (fi)

source or origin

• Danish: moder (da) c
• Finnish: äiti (fi)
• Japanese: 元 (ja) (もと, moto)
• Kunigami: 元 (むと゚ぅー, mutū)
• Miyako: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)
• Okinawan: 元 (むとぅ, mutu)
• Old Tupi: sy
• Portuguese: mãe (pt) f
• 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 (さいこうの, saikō no), (worst) 最悪の (さいあくの, saiaku no), (biggest, greatest) 最大の (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 (mâdarândar), زن‌بابا (zan-bâbâ)
• Portuguese: mãe (pt) f
• Swahili: mama (sw)

any elderly woman

• Bulgarian: ле́ля (bg) f (lélja)
• Finnish: rouva (fi)
• Swedish: tant (sv), gumma (sv)
• Tagalog: manang

any person or entity which performs mothering

• Finnish: äiti (fi)
• Portuguese: cuidadora f

film that produces vinegar

• French: mère de vinaigre (fr), mycoderme (fr)
• German: Essigmutter, Essigkahm
• Polish: matka (pl) f

principal piece of an astrolabe

• Portuguese: mater (pt) f, madre (pt) f

female superior or head of a religious house

• Finnish: äiti (fi)
• Polish: matka (pl) f
• Portuguese: madre (pt) f

hysterical passion — see hysteria

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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• Breton: ^{(please verify)} mamm (br) f, ^{(please verify)} mammoù (br) pl
• Central Sierra Miwok: ^{(please verify)} ʔytáˑ-
• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} დედა (ka) (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