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) A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States.
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 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), 母亲节 (mou⁵ can¹ zit³)

  Mandarin: 母親節／母亲节 (zh) (mǔqīnjié), 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 (ははのひ, haha-no hi), マザーズデー (mazāzudē)
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• Korean: 어머니의 날 (eomeoniui nal)
• Navajo: Amá Bééhániih
• Norman: Fête des Méthes f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morsdag m

  Nynorsk: morsdag m

• Polish: Dzień Matki (pl)
• Portuguese: Dia das Mães (pt) m
• Russian: День ма́тери m (Denʹ máteri)
• Spanish: Día de la Madre m
• Swedish: mors dag
• Turkish: Anneler Günü
• Vietnamese: ngày Hiền Mẫu, ngày của Mẹ, ngày lễ các bà mẹ

See also

• Father's Day