milk-mother

See also: milk mother

English

Alternative forms

• milk mother

Noun

milk-mother (plural milk-mothers)

1. Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).

   Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad.

Related terms

• milk brother
• milk sister

Translations

familial wet nurse

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶媽／奶妈 (zh) (nǎimā)

• Latin: nutrix (la), mamma
• Swedish: amma (sv)