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Mother in Different Languages

December 11th, 2007 by mothersday

In Afrikaans language mother is “Moeder”, “Ma” and in Albanian ‘Nënë”, “Mëmë”. In Arabic countries the word is “Ahm”. In Spanish and Norwegian mother is “Madre”.

Translated into Belarusian and Polish the word used for mother is “Matka”.
“Mèder” is the word in Bolognese language. The people in Bosnia and Bulgaria people say “Majka”. “Mãe” is used in Brazilian and Portuguese languages. “Nana” is in Chechen;” Mati”, “Majka” in Croatian.  In Czech language translated mother is “Abatyse”. In Danish is “Mor” and in Dutch “Moeder” or” Moe”. In England people say “Mother”,”Mama”, “Mom” and in Frence “Mère “and “Maman”.
 
In German language the word is “Mutter”, in Greek - “Màna” and in Hawaiian “Makuahine”.In Hindi language mother is “Ma” and “Maji”, in Hungarian “Anya”or “Fu” and in Icelandic language “Móðir”.

Translated into Indonesian is “Induk”, “Ibu”, “Biang”, “Nyokap”, in Irish is “Máthair” and in Italian “Madre” and” Mamma”. Japanese people say “Okaasan” and “Haha” and Macedonian say “Majka”. In Persian language mother is translated into “Madr” and “Maman” and in Portuguese the word is “Mãe”.
In Punjabi language mother is “Mai”, “Mataji”, “Pabbo”. And in Romanian “Mama”, “Maica” but in Russian language it is “Mat”. In Latin language the word is “Mater”, in Marathi it is “Aayi” and in Mongolian “`eh”.

Serbian people use the word “Majka” which is very similar to the Bulgarian word for mother. In Slovak language you can say “Mama”, “Matka” and in Spanish language the word is “Madre”, “Mamá” and “Mami”. “Mamma”, “Mor”, “Morsa” are the words used in Swedish language and “Mueter” is in Swiss and German language. “Anne”, “Ana” and “Valide” are used in Turkish language for mom.
In Ukraine people say “Mati” and in Welse people say “Mam”. Mother translated into Urdu language is “Ammee”. In Yiddish language is “Muter” and in Zeneize language is “Moæ”.

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