English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
wet nurse (plural wet nurses)
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
- Coordinate term: dry-nurse
- (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
Translations[edit]
woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Aghwan: please add this translation if you can
- Akan: please add this translation if you can
- Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: mendeshë f
- Arabic: ظِئْر (ẓiʔr), دَايَة f (dāya)
- Gulf Arabic: داية f (dāya)
- Armenian: ծծմայր (hy) (ccmayr), ստնտու (hy) (stntu)
- Belarusian: кармі́целька f (karmícjelʹka)
- Bulgarian: кърма́чка f (kǎrmáčka), до́йка f (dójka)
- Catalan: dida (ca) f, dida seca f, nodrissa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 乳母 (zh) (rǔmǔ), 奶媽／奶妈 (zh) (nǎimā)
- Czech: kojná (cs) f
- Danish: amme (da) c
- Dutch: zoogmoeder f, min (nl) f
- Egyptian: (mnꜥt)
- Esperanto: nutristino
- Estonian: amm (et)
- Faroese: bróstmóðir f
- Finnish: imettäjä (fi)
- French: nourrice (fr) f
- Galician: ama (gl) f, ama de leite f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Säugamme f, Amme (de) f
- Greek: τροφός (el) f (trofós), παραμάνα (el) f (paramána)
- Ancient: τροφός f (trophós), τιθήνη f (tithḗnē)
- Gurani: دایانە (dāyāna)
- Hebrew: מֵינֶקֶת (he) f (meinéket)
- Hungarian: (szoptatós (hu)) dajka (hu)
- Icelandic: brjóstmóðir f
- Irish: banaltra chíche f, bean oiliúna f, bean altrama f
- Italian: balia (it)
- Japanese: 乳母 (ja) (うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto)
- Khmer: មេដោះ (km) (mee dɑh)
- Korean: 유모(乳母) (ko) (yumo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دایان (dayan), دایەن (dayen)
- Northern Kurdish: dayan, dayîn (ku)
- Latin: nūtrix (la) f, altrix f
- Latvian: zīdītāja f
- Livonian: äm
- Macedonian: доилка f (doilka), дојница f (dojnica)
- Malay: ibu susuan
- Middle English: norice
- Mon: မိဂမဴတှ် (mnw), ၝဲဂမဴ
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: amme (no) m or f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: баба f (baba)
- Polish: mamka (pl) f
- Portuguese: ama-de-leite (pt) f
- Romanian: doică (ro) f
- Russian: корми́лица (ru) f (kormílica), ма́мка (ru) f (mámka) (dated)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: dida
- Logudorese: tatàya
- Sassarese: tadàia
- Scottish Gaelic: muime-chìche f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̀јӣља f
- Roman: dòjīlja (sh) f
- Sicilian: mammana (scn) f, nurrizza (scn) f
- Slovak: kojná f, dojka (sk) f
- Slovene: dojílja (sl) f
- Spanish: nodriza (es) f
- Sranan Tongo: mena
- Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ (suster baseuh)
- Swedish: amma (sv) c
- Tagalog: sisiwa, mamay
- Thai: แม่นม (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-nom)
- Tibetan: ནུ་སྦྱིན་མ་ཚབ (nu sbyin ma tshab)
- Turkish: sütanne (tr)
- Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎌𐎐𐎖𐎚 (mšnqt)
- Ukrainian: годува́льниця f (hoduválʹnycja), годівни́ця f (hodivnýcja), ма́мка f (mámka)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: vú nuôi
- Volapük: (♂♀) sügan (vo), (♂, in science fiction) hisügan, (♀) jisügan, (♂, in science fiction) miligafat, (♀) miligamot
- Yiddish: אַם f (am), זייגערין f (zeygerin)
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someone who treats someone else with excessive care
wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)
- (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).
