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 Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can 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

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: äidit (fi) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دایکان (daykan) Macedonian: мајчинство n (majčinstvo) Portuguese: mães (pt) f pl

Further reading

• motherhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia