A mother (Mom SVG) is a woman parenting her child.
A term for different perceptions in a social, cultural or religious context.
The word “mother”
Sequences of sounds /ma/, /mama/ and the like in many, often completely unrelated languages correspond to the word “mother”. For example:
- Mom, mommy, mum, mummy, ma, mam, mammy, maa, amaa, mata are English and related languages;
- māma (妈妈/媽媽) – in Chinese
- máma is Czech;
- maman – in French and Persian;
- maadar – in Dari;
- mamma – in Italian and Icelandic;
- mãe in Portuguese;
- ema – in Estonian
- má or mẹ in Vietnamese;
- mam – in Welsh;
- ama – in Basque;
- eomma (엄마, IPA: ʌmma) – in Korean;
- matka – in Polish, Slovak;
- madre – in Spanish;
- matrice in Albanian;
- modor in Old English;
- mathrin in Old Irish;
- matr – in Sanskrit;
- mama – as borrowed from English is used in Japan;
- (metér, μητήρ) mitéra, μητέρα or mána, μάνα – in Greek;