breastfeed

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Verb

breastfeed (third-person singular simple present breastfeeds, present participle breastfeeding, simple past and past participle breastfed)

1. To feed a baby milk via the breasts; to suckle.

Translations

feed a baby milk via the breasts

• Bulgarian: кърмя (bg) (kǎrmjá)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餵奶 (cmn), 哺乳 (cmn) (bǔrǔ), 喂奶 (cmn) (wèinǎi)

• Czech: kojit (cs)
• Dutch: borstvoeding geven, de borst geven, zogen
• Esperanto: mamnutri (eo)
• Finnish: imettää (fi)
• French: allaiter, donner la tétée

  Old French: alaitier

• German: stillen (de)
• Hebrew: הניק (he) (heník)
• Hungarian: szoptat (hu)
• Italian: allattare, allattare al seno
• Japanese: 授乳する (ja) (じゅにゅうする, junyū suru)
• Latvian: zīdīt (lv)

• Macedonian: дои (mk) (dói)
• Norwegian: amme (no)
• Old Church Slavonic: доити (doiti)
• Old French: alaitier
• Polish: karmić piersią (pl)
• Portuguese: amamentar (pt), dar de mamar (pt)
• Russian: кормить грудью (kormítʹ grúdʹju) impf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: до̀јити (sh)

  Roman: dòjiti (sh)

• Slovene: dojiti (sl)
• Spanish: dar teta, dar de mamar, lactar, dar el pecho (es)
• Swedish: amma (sv)
• Vietnamese: bú (vi)
• Volapük: blöto nulüdön (vo)