Mother's Day

English

"Happy Mother's Day!" written on a cake.

Alternative forms

• Mothers' Day, Mothers Day (common misspellings or international variants, e.g. in France)

Etymology

From Anna Jarvis's campaign in the early 20th century, which insisted on using a singular spelling in order to associate the day with observants' particular mothers.

Noun

Mother's Day (plural Mother's Days)

1. (US, Canada) A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
2. (UK and Ireland, informal) Synonym of Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, a moveable feast three weeks before Easter, used as a day in honor of mothers in some Commonwealth countries.
3. Other similar holidays honoring mothers or one's mother in various countries.

Translations

a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day

• Arabic: عِيد اَلْأُمّ m (ʕīd al-ʔumm)
• Catalan: Dia de la Mare m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 母親節／母亲节 (mou⁵ can¹ zit³)

  Mandarin: 母親節／母亲节 (zh) (mǔqīnjié)

• Dutch: moederdag m
• Estonian: emadepäev (et)
• Finnish: äitienpäivä (fi)
• French: fête des Mères (fr) f
• Galician: día da nai
• German: Muttertag (de) m
• Hungarian: anyák napja (hu)
• Italian: festa della mamma f
• Japanese: 母の日 (ja) (ははのひ, haha-no hi), マザーズデー (mazāzudē)
• Korean: 어머니의 날 (eomeoniui nal)
• Malayalam: മാതൃദിനം (mātr̥dinaṁ)
• Navajo: Amá Bééhániih
• Norman: Fête des Méthes f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morsdag m

  Nynorsk: morsdag m

• Polish: Dzień Matki (pl) m
• Portuguese: Dia das Mães (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: День ма́тери m (Denʹ máteri)
• Scottish Gaelic: Là nam Màthraichean m
• Spanish: Día de la Madre m
• Swedish: mors dag
• Tagalog: Araw ng mga Ina
• Turkish: Anneler Günü
• Vietnamese: ngày Hiền Mẫu, ngày của Mẹ, ngày lễ các bà mẹ
• Yoruba: ọjọ́ ìyá

See also

• Father's Day