English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From baby + sitter.
babysitter (plural babysitters)
- A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
- My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other moms' children.
Derived terms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
baby or child caretaker
- Albanian: dado (sq)
- Arabic: حاضنة (ar) (HaaDina) f, مربية (ar) (murábbiya) f
- Basque: haurtzain
- Catalan: cangur; cuidar nens
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保姆 (cmn) (bǎomǔ)
- Croatian: dadilja
- Czech: dozor u dítěte
- Danish: babysitter; barnepige; aftenvagt
- Dutch: babyoppas; kinderoppas; oppas; wiegewacht
- Esperanto: vartisto (eo), vartistino (eo)
- Estonian: lapsehoidja
- Finnish: lapsenkaitsija; lapsenvahti
- French: baby-sitter (fr) f, gardienne d’enfant (fr) f, bonne d’enfant (fr) f
- German: Babysitter (de) m, Kinderhüter (de) m, Kinderhüterin (de) f, Kinderbetreuer (de) m, Kinderbetreuerin (de) f
- Greek: μπεϊμπισίτερ (el) (beïbisíter), μπέμπι−σίτερ (el) (bébi-síter)
- Hebrew: שמרטף (he) (sh'martáf) m, שמרטפית (he) (sh'martafít) f; בייביסיטר (he) (beibisiter) m and f
- Hindi: दाई (hi) (dā'ī)
- Hungarian: bébiszitter (hu), pótmama (hu)
- Icelandic: barnapía
- Indonesian: pramusiwi
- Irish: feighlí páistí (ga) m
- Italian: baby-sitter (it)
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- Japanese: ベビーシッター (ja) (bebīsittā), 子守 (ja) (こもり, komori)
- Jèrriais: gardeux d'êfants m, gardeuse d'êfants f
- Khmer: អ្នកមើលក្មេង (km) (neak merl khmeng)
- Korean: 베이비시터 (ko) (beibisiteo)
- Latvian: aukle
- Lithuanian: ateinanti auklė; vaikų prižiūrėtoja
- Macedonian: дадилка (dadilka) f
- Maltese: bejbisiter
- Norwegian: barnevakt; kenguru
- Portuguese: babá (pt) m
- Romanian: doică f
- Russian: приходящая няня (ru) (prixodjáščaja njánja) f, няня (ru) (njánja) f, бэбиситтер (ru) (bebisítter) m and f, бебиситтер (ru) (bebisítter) m and f
- Serbo-Croatian: dadilja f, дадиља (sh) f
- Slovak: opatrovnica; dozor u dieťaťa
- Spanish: niñera f, canguro m (Spain), china f (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
- Swahili: mlezi wa muda; mlei; yaya
- Swedish: barnvakt (sv) c
- Tagalog: yáya; tagá-alagà ng batà
- Telugu: ఆయా
- Turkish: çocuk bakıcısı
- Vietnamese: người giữ trẻ (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) cilikälädan (vo), (male) cilihikälädan (vo), (female) cilijikälädan (vo)
- Welsh: gwarchodwr banbanod
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See also[edit]
Finnish[edit]
babysitter
- babysitter
Declension[edit]
Declension of babysitter (type paperi)
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Synonyms[edit]
Italian[edit]
babysitter m, f (invariable)
- babysitter
