godmother

Etymology
From, from , equivalent to en. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Basque:
 * Catalan:
 * Chavacano: padrina
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 乾娘,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gudmor, gudmoder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: baptopatrino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: madriña
 * Georgian: ნათლიდედა, ნათლია
 * German:, , , , Firmgodl , , Godel ,  ,  , Taufgodl ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ibu baptis
 * Ingrian: naiskooma
 * Irish: máthair bhaistí
 * Italian: godmother of one's child,  one's own godmother
 * Japanese: 教母, 代母
 * Javanese: nini among
 * Latin: matrina
 * Latvian: krustmāte
 * Macedonian: кума
 * Norman: mârraine
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gudmor
 * Nynorsk: gudmor
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, مادرندر
 * Polabian: federă
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: reflects the relationship to the baptized child;  reflects the relationship to the parents of the baptized child, not to the child
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: madritscha, madretscha
 * Russian: крёстная мать
 * Scottish Gaelic: muime, màthair-bhaiste, bana-ghoistidh
 * Sicilian: cummari godmother of one's child, madrina one's own godmother
 * Slovak: krstná mama reflects the relationship to the baptized child; kmotra reflects the relationship to the parents of the baptized child, not to the child
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kmótša
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: inaama,, madrina
 * Taos: kumàyliʼína
 * Thai:, แม่อุปถัมภ์
 * Ukrainian: хрещена мати, хрещена, матка, кума
 * Vietnamese: mẹ
 * Volapük:, jispönan
 * Welsh: mam fedydd

Verb

 * 1)  To act as godmother to.