mother

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. .

Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from, from , but is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
 * 2) A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
 * 3) A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
 * 4) A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
 * 5)  A female ancestor.
 * 6)  A source or origin.
 * 7) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
 * 8) * 1991, January 17,, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio.
 * The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
 * 1)  A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
 * 2)  Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
 * 3)  Any person or entity which performs mothering.
 * 4) * Judges 5:7, KJV.
 * The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
 * 1) * Galatians 4:26, KJV.
 * Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
 * 1)  Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance consisting of a culture of acetobacters which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids such as wine, or cider, and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
 * 2)  A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
 * 3) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
 * 4) The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
 * 5)  Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
 * 6) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 7)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
 * 2) * 1991, January 17,, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio.
 * The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
 * 1)  A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
 * 2)  Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
 * 3)  Any person or entity which performs mothering.
 * 4) * Judges 5:7, KJV.
 * The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
 * 1) * Galatians 4:26, KJV.
 * Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
 * 1)  Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance consisting of a culture of acetobacters which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids such as wine, or cider, and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
 * 2)  A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
 * 3) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
 * 4) The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
 * 5)  Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
 * 6) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 7)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1) * Judges 5:7, KJV.
 * The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
 * 1) * Galatians 4:26, KJV.
 * Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
 * 1)  Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance consisting of a culture of acetobacters which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids such as wine, or cider, and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
 * 2)  A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
 * 3) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
 * 4) The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
 * 5)  Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
 * 6) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 7)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1)  Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
 * 2) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 3)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 2)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1) A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
 * 2)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;
 * 1)  aA person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community;

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:mother

Antonyms

 * father
 * daughter, son, child, offspring

Etymology 2
From, from the noun (see above).

Verb

 * 1)  To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child.
 * 2)  To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
 * 3)  To cause to contain.
 * 4)  To develop mother.
 * 1)  To cause to contain.
 * 2)  To develop mother.
 * 1)  To develop mother.
 * 1)  To develop mother.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 待之如母
 * Danish:, tage sig ordentlig af
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: olla äitinä
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: anyáskodik (vki fölött)
 * Irish: máithrigh
 * Japanese: ,
 * Sinhalese: මාතෘ
 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Yiddish: מאַמען

Noun

 * 1)  Motherfucker.
 * 2)  A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
 * 1)  A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
 * 1)  A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)

Etymology 4
Coined from by analogy to.