motherhood

English

Etymology

Middle English/mother +‎ -hood This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

motherhood (countable and uncountable, plural motherhoods)

1. The state of being a mother.
2. Mothers, considered as a group.

   the nation's motherhood

Synonyms

• mommyhood

Coordinate terms

• siblinghood

Related terms

• motherhood statement

Translations

the state of being a mother

• Arabic: أُمُومَة‏‎ f (ʾumūma)
• Catalan: maternitat f
• Crimean Tatar: analıq
• Czech: mateřství n
• Danish: moderskab
• Dutch: moederschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: patrineco
• Finnish: äitiys (fi)
• French: maternité (fr) f
• German: Mutterschaft (de) f
• Indonesian: keibuan (id)
• Korean: 모성 (ko) (moseong), 엄마인 것 (omma-in geot)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دایکی‏‎

• Lithuanian: motinystė
• Macedonian: мајчинство n (majčinstvo)
• Polish: macierzyństwo (pl)
• Portuguese: maternidade (pt) f
• Russian: матери́нство (ru) n (materínstvo)
• Southern Altai: энелик (enelik)
• Spanish: maternidad (es) f
• Swahili: umama
• Swedish: moderskap (sv) n
• Turkish: annelik (tr), analık (tr)

mothers as a group

• Finnish: äidit (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دایکان‏‎

• Portuguese: mães (pt) f pl

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} maternité f

See also

• motherhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia