foster

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
 * 2) Receiving such care.
 * 3) Related by such care.
 * 1) Related by such care.
 * 1) Related by such care.

Translations

 * Finnish: kasvatus-, kasvatti-
 * French: ,
 * Galician: adoptivo
 * Georgian: ნაშვილები
 * German: Pflege-
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:, adoptivo
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: yetiştiren


 * French:
 * Galician: adoptado, adoptivo
 * Georgian: ნაშვილები
 * German: Pflege-
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * French:

Noun

 * 1)  A foster parent.
 * Some fosters end up adopting.
 * 1)  The care given to another; guardianship.

Verb

 * 1)  To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
 * 2)  To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
 * 3)  To nurse or cherish something.
 * 4)  To be nurtured or trained up together.
 * 1)  To nurse or cherish something.
 * 2)  To be nurtured or trained up together.
 * 1)  To nurse or cherish something.
 * 2)  To be nurtured or trained up together.
 * 1)  To be nurtured or trained up together.

Usage notes
Modern English makes a distinction between (which is implied to be temporary or informal) and  (which is permanent and makes the child legally recognized as part of the family). In older usage the two terms were more interchangeable.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, грижа се за
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: აღზრდა
 * German: (in Pflege) aufziehen, (in Pflege) großziehen
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: altramaigh, máithrigh,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Macedonian: во́спита, воспи́тува
 * Maori: taurima, whāngai
 * Middle English: fostren
 * Occitan: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: altraim
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: წახალისება, წაქეზება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Macedonian: одгле́дува, о́дгледа
 * Maori: ahu, ahuahu
 * Middle English: fostren
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: ხელის გულზე ტარება, ლოლიაობა, სათუთად მოვლა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Macedonian: не́гува
 * Maori: kumanu, rauhī
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: altraim
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan:
 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  A forester.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) fetus

Etymology 1
, from, from ; reinforced by 🇨🇬. The vocalism is due to regular shortening before a three-consonant cluster (in the Old English oblique stem ).

Noun

 * 1) A child; one of one's progeny.
 * 2)  Food or other care.
 * 3)  A  child or adopted child.
 * 4)  A  parent or adoptee.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a fetus or foetus

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a fetus or foetus

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) fetus