# wet nurse
## English
### Alternative forms

* wet-nurse, wetnurse

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

wet nurse (plural wet nurses)
* A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.
    Coordinate term: dry nurse
* (figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.

#### Translations

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Albanian: mendeshë f
Arabic: ظِئْر (ẓiʔr), دَايَة f (dāya)
Gulf Arabic: داية f (dāya)
Armenian: ծծմայր (hy) (ccmayr), ստնտու (hy) (stntu)
Belarusian: кармі́целька f (karmícjelʹka)
Bulgarian: кърма́чка f (kǎrmáčka), до́йка f (dójka)
Catalan: dida (ca) f, dida seca (ca) f, nodrissa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 乳母 (zh) (rǔmǔ), 奶媽／奶妈 (zh) (nǎimā)
Czech: kojná (cs) f
Danish: amme (da) c
Dutch: zoogmoeder f, min (nl) f, zoogster (nl) f, voedster (nl) f, minne (nl) f, minnemoeder f
Egyptian: (mnꜥt)
Esperanto: nutristino
Estonian: amm (et)
Faroese: bróstmóðir f
Finnish: imettäjä (fi)
French: nourrice (fr) f
Galician: ama (gl) f, ama de leite f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Säugamme f, Amme (de) f
Greek: τροφός (el) f (trofós), παραμάνα (el) f (paramána)
Ancient: τροφός f (trophós), τιθήνη f (tithḗnē)
Gurani: دایانە (dāyāna)
Hebrew: מֵינֶקֶת (he) f (meinéket)
Hungarian: (szoptatós (hu)) dajka (hu)
Icelandic: brjóstmóðir f
Irish: banaltra chíche f, bean oiliúna f, bean altrama f
Italian: balia (it)
Japanese: 乳母 (ja) (うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto)
Khmer: មេដោះ (km) (mee dɑh)
Korean: 유모(乳母) (ko) (yumo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دایان (dayan), دایەن (dayen)
Northern Kurdish: dayan, dayîn (ku)
Latin: nūtrix (la) f, altrix f
Latvian: zīdītāja f
Livonian: äm
Macedonian: доилка f (doilka), дојница f (dojnica)
Malay: ibu susuan
Middle English: norice
Mon: မိဂမဴတှ် (mnw), ၝဲဂမဴ
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: amme (no) m or f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: баба f (baba)
Persian: دایه (fa) (dāye)
Polish: mamka (pl) f
Portuguese: ama de leite (pt) f
Romanian: doică (ro) f
Russian: корми́лица (ru) f (kormílica), ма́мка (ru) f (mámka) (dated)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: dida
Logudorese: tatàya
Sassarese: tadàia
Scottish Gaelic: muime-chìche f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̀јӣља f
Roman: dòjīlja (sh) f
Sicilian: mammana (scn) f, nurrizza (scn) f
Slovak: kojná f, dojka (sk) f
Slovene: dojílja (sl) f
Spanish: nodriza (es) f, pasiega (es) f, ama de leche f, ama de cría f, criandera f, chichigua f, aña (es) f
Sranan Tongo: mena
Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮞ᮪ᮒᮨᮁ ᮘᮞᮩᮂ (suster baseuh)
Swedish: amma (sv) c
Tagalog: sisiwa, mamay
Thai: แม่นม (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-nom)
Tibetan: ནུ་སྦྱིན་མ་ཚབ (nu sbyin ma tshab)
Turkish: sütanne (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎌𐎐𐎖𐎚 (mšnqt)
Ukrainian: годува́льниця f (hoduválʹnycja), годівни́ця f (hodivnýcja), ма́мка f (mámka)
Urdu: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: vú nuôi
Volapük: (♂♀) sügan (vo), (♂, in science fiction) hisügan, (♀) jisügan, (♂, in science fiction) miligafat, (♀) miligamot
Yiddish: אַם f (am), זייגערין f (zeygerin) :

### Verb

wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)
* (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).