English[edit]
maternity leave (countable and uncountable, plural maternity leaves)
- A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.
- Hypernym: parental leave
- Coordinate term: paternity leave
My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.
2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
leave of absence
- Afrikaans: kraamverlof
- Bulgarian: отпуск по майчинство (otpusk po majčinstvo)
- Burmese: မီးဖွားခွင့် (my) (mi:hpwa:hkwang.)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 產假／产假 (zh) (chǎnjià), 育嬰假／育婴假 (zh) (yùyīngjià)
- Czech: mateřská dovolená f
- Danish: barsel c
- Dutch: zwangerschapsverlof (nl), moederschapsrust (nl) m or f (Belgium)
- Faroese: barnsburðarfarloyvi (fo) n
- Finnish: äitiysvapaa (fi)
- French: congé de maternité
- German: Mutterschaftsurlaub (de) m, Mutterschutz m, Erziehungsurlaub m
- Greek: άδεια μητρότητας f (ádeia mitrótitas), άδεια εγκυμοσύνης f (ádeia egkymosýnis)
- Indonesian: cuti hamil
- Japanese: 育児休業 (いくじきゅうぎょう, ikuji kyūgyō), 産休 (ja) (さんきゅう, sankyū)
- Polish: urlop macierzyński (pl) m
- Portuguese: licença-maternidade (pt) f
- Russian: декре́тный о́тпуск (ru) m (dekrétnyj ótpusk), о́тпуск по бере́менности и ро́дам m (ótpusk po berémennosti i ródam)
- Spanish: permiso de maternidad m
- Swedish: moderskapsledighet
- Turkish: analık izni, doğum izni
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