English[edit]
Wikipedia
Alternative forms[edit]
wet nurse (plural wet nurses)
- A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
- (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
Translations[edit]
woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- Belarusian: кармі́целька f (karmícjelʹka)
- Bulgarian: кърма́чка f (kǎrmáčka), до́йка f (dójka)
- Catalan: dida f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 乳母 (zh) (rǔmǔ), 奶媽, 奶妈 (zh) (nǎimā)
- Czech: kojná (cs) f
- Danish: amme (da) c
- Dutch: zoogmoeder f, min (nl) f
- 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: מינקת f (meinéket)
- Hungarian: dajka (hu)
- Icelandic: brjóstmóðir 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
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- 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), ня́нька (ru) f (njánʹka) (nanny), ня́ня (ru) f (njánja)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese Sardinian: dida
- Logudorese Sardinian: tatàya
- Sassarese Sardinian: tadàia
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̀јӣља f
- Roman: dòjīlja f
- Slovak: kojná f, dojka f
- Slovene: dojílja f
- Spanish: nodriza f
- Swedish: amma (sv) c
- Turkish: sütanne (tr)
- Ukrainian: годува́льниця f (hoduválʹnycja), годівни́ця f (hodivnýcja), ма́мка f (mámka), ня́нька f (njánʹka) (nanny), ня́ня f (njánja)
- Volapük: (♂♀) sügan (vo), (♂, in science fiction) hisügan, (♀) jisügan, (♂, in science fiction) miligafat, (♀) miligamot
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someone who treats someone else with excessive care
Related terms[edit]
wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)
- (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
