wet nurse

See also: wetnurse and wet-nurse

English

Alternative forms

• wet-nurse, wetnurse

Noun

wet nurse (plural wet nurses)

1. A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.

Translations

woman hired to suckle another woman's child

• Albanian: mendeshë f
• Armenian: ծծմայր (hy) (ccmayr), ստնտու (hy) (stntu)
• Belarusian: кармі́целька f (karmícjelʹka)
• Bulgarian: кърма́чка f (kǎrmáčka), до́йка f (dójka)
• Catalan: dida f, dida seca f, nodrissa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳母 (zh) (rǔmǔ), 奶媽 (zh), 奶妈 (zh) (nǎimā)

• Czech: kojná (cs) f
• Danish: amme (da) c
• Dutch: zoogmoeder f, min (nl) f
• Esperanto: nutristino
• Estonian: amm
• Finnish: imettäjä (fi)
• French: nourrice (fr) f
• German: Säugamme f, Amme (de) f
• Greek: τροφός (el) f (trofós), παραμάνα (el) f (paramána)
• Hebrew: מֵינֶקֶת‏‎ f (meinéket)
• Hungarian: 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) (mae dors)
• Korean: 유모 (ko) (yumo)
• Latvian: zīdītāja f
• Livonian: äm

• Macedonian: до́илка f (dóilka), до́јница f (dójnica)
• Malay: ibu susuan
• Norwegian: amme (no) m, f
• Old Church Slavonic: баба f (baba)
• Polish: mamka (pl) f
• Portuguese: ama-de-leite (pt) f
• Romanian: doică (ro)
• 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

• Slovak: kojná f, dojka (sk) f
• Slovene: dojílja (sl) f
• Spanish: nodriza (es) f
• Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ (suster baseuh)
• Swedish: amma (sv) c
• Tagalog: sisiwa, mamay
• Turkish: sütanne (tr)
• Ukrainian: годува́льниця f (hoduválʹnycja), годівни́ця f (hodivnýcja), ма́мка f (mámka)
• Volapük: (♂♀) sügan (vo), (♂, in science fiction) hisügan, (♀) jisügan, (♂, in science fiction) miligafat, (♀) miligamot
• Yiddish: אַם‏‎ f (am), זייגערין‏‎ f (zeygerin)

someone who treats someone else with excessive care

• Russian: ня́нька (ru) f (njánʹka)

• Spanish: consentidor (es) m, consentidora (es) f

Related terms

• dry-nurse

Verb

wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)

1. (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)