mother

1. noun

1) (a female parent, especially human: John's mother lives in Manchester; (also adjective) The mother bird feeds her young.) mati

2) ((often with capital: also Mother Superior) the female leader of a group of nuns.) mati prednica

2. verb

(to care for as a mother does; to protect (sometimes too much): His wife tries to mother him.) po materinsko skrbeti

- motherhood

- motherless
- motherly
- motherliness
- mother-country
- motherland
- mother-in-law
- mother-of-pearl
- mother-tongue

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I [mʌðə]

noun

mati; mati prednica (v samostanu); archaic medicine histerija

artiflcial mother — inkubator

mother earth — mati zemlja

colloquially to kiss mother earth — pasti

Mother's Day — materinski dan

every mother's son — vsak človek

mother country — domovina

necessity is the mother of invention — sila kola lomi

zoology Mother Carey's chicken — viharnica (ptica)

Mother Hubbard — široka, ohlapna ženska obleka

chemistry mother liquor ( —ali liquid) — lužna usedlina

mother lode — glavna rudna žila

botany mother of thousands — vrsta divjega lanu

II [mʌðə]

transitive verb

roditi (navadno figuratively); po materinsko skrbeti, priznati materinstvo

to mother a novel on s.o. — pripisati komu avtorstvo romana

III [mʌðə]

noun

chemistry octov cvet