motherhood

English

Etymology

From Middle English moderhode, moderhede, equivalent to mother +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðəhʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/, /ˈmə-/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: mo‧ther‧hood

Noun

motherhood (countable and uncountable, plural motherhoods)

1. The state of being a mother.
2. Mothers, considered as a group.

   the nation's motherhood

Synonyms

• momhood, mumhood
• mommyhood, mummyhood
• mothership

Coordinate terms

• fatherhood
• parenthood
• siblinghood

Derived terms

• flag, motherhood and apple pie, motherhood and apple pie
• motherhood statement
• Republican motherhood

Translations

state of being a mother

• Arabic: أُمُومَة f (ʔumūma)
• Bulgarian: майчинство (bg) n (majčinstvo)
• Catalan: maternitat f
• Crimean Tatar: analıq
• Czech: mateřství n
• Danish: moderskab
• Dutch: moederschap (nl) n
• Esperanto: patrineco
• Finnish: äitiys (fi)
• French: maternité (fr) f
• German: Mutterschaft (de) f, Muttersein n, Muttertum n
• Hungarian: anyaság (hu) sg
• Indonesian: keibuan (id)
• Korean: 모성 (ko) (moseong), 엄마인 것 (omma-in geot)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دایکی (daykî)

• Lithuanian: motinystė
• Macedonian: мајчинство n (majčinstvo)
• Maori: whaeatanga
• Polish: macierzyństwo (pl)
• Portuguese: maternidade (pt) f
• Russian: матери́нство (ru) n (materínstvo)
• Southern Altai: энелик (enelik)
• Spanish: maternidad (es) f
• Swahili: umama
• Swedish: moderskap (sv) n
• Telugu: మాతృత్వము (te) (mātr̥tvamu)
• Turkish: annelik (tr), analık (tr)

mothers as a group

• Finnish: äidit (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دایکان (daykan)

• Macedonian: мајчинство n (majčinstvo)
• Portuguese: mães (pt) f pl

Further reading

• motherhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia