MOTHER  母親

FEMALE PARENT.
FEMALE PARENTMATERFAMILIASMATRIARCHINFORMAL MOMMOMMYMAMAMAOLD LADYOLD WOMANCHIEFLY BRIT. INFORMAL MUMMUMMY
Hypernym
  • PARENTRELATIVE who has ENGENDERED OR BIRTH:given birth to a CHILD.
    • RELATIVESHUMANS who HAVE COMMON ANCESTORS.
      • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS.
        • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
See also
Hyponym
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a mother is mǔ 母.

黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
HUANG JINGUI 2006

HUMAN AFFAIRS 7. 母親。母，通稱。

嫗，俗稱，常位於丈夫姓氏後。

媼，尊稱。

姐，方言詞。

妣，漢時指亡母。母之兄弟為舅，母之姐妹為姨。

Modern Chinese Criteria
母

母親

慈母

慈親

阿母

阿媽

媽媽

阿娘

姆媽

媽

娘

萱

萱堂

堂萱

北堂

內親

慈闈

慈顏

令堂

令萱

令慈

尊堂

老太太

太君

家母

家慈

老母

老娘

家夫人

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 2.36

  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 388

    373. Inter Matronam et matrem familias, Melissus grammaticus arbitratur hoc interesse, quod matrona dicatur mater primi pueri; mater familias, quae plures peperit. Alii dixerunt matronam dici quae in matrimonium cum viro convenerit, et in eo [ Al., ideo] matrimonium 49 actum [ Al., dictum]; matrem vero familias eam esse quae in mariti manu, mancipioque est, aut in cujus maritus manu mancipioque esset, [col. 48C] quoniam in familiam quoque mariti et sui haeredis venisset. Matronae autem

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 3.555

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 137ff

  • Using Chinese Synonyms ( GRACE ZHANG 2010) p. 289

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 50

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 72A

Words

母  mǔ OC: mɯʔ MC: mu 31 Attributions

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 慈/LOVE Cí 慈 (ant. rěn 忍 "callous, unfeeling") is primarily the intimate emotional concern of mothers/parents for their children, and by extension such concern of a fatherly ruler for his people. [EMOTIONAL], [PRACTICAL]
  • Assoc: 父/FATHER The completely dominant word is fù 父
  • Oppos: 子/CHILD The commonest word for a child is zǐ 子"son; child; rarely: baby".

    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)the mother of the contextually determinate N
  • n[post-N]one's own motherCH
  • nfigurativethat from which something originates
  • nnon-human(animal) mother
  • ntpost-Nmother of N
  • vtoNattitudinaltreat as one's mother
慈母  cí mǔ OC: dzɯ mɯʔ MC: dzɨ mu 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPloving mother
  • NPadoptiveadoptive motherCH
娘  niáng OC: mɢraŋ MC: ɳi̯ɐŋ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • nmother
  • nadVfrom the mother
孃  niáng OC: naŋ MC: ɳi̯ɐŋ 2 Attributions

    Syntactic words
  • ninformal: mom; mother
親母  qīn mǔ OC: tshiŋ mɯʔ MC: tshin mu 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NP(biological) mother
外  wài OC: ŋoods MC: ŋɑi 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadNbelonging to maternal lineage 外戚 “consort families"
妣  bǐ OC: piʔ MC: pi 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)deceased mother of a contextually determinate person N
母親  mǔ qīn OC: mɯʔ tshiŋ MC: mu tshin 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NPmother
老母  lǎo mǔ OC: ɡ-ruuʔ mɯʔ MC: lɑu mu 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]reflexiveone's old mother
姐  jiě OC: skaʔ MC: tsɣɛ 0 Attributions

Jiě 姐 is a word for mother which was in use in Sìchuān 四川.

    Syntactic words
嬭  nǐ OC: m-liilʔ MC: nei 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • ntmother
阿孃  ā niáng OC: qlaal naŋ MC: ʔɑ ɳi̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NPcolloquialcolloquial: mother
阿母  ā mǔ OC: qlaal mɯʔ MC: ʔɑ mu 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)the mother
親  qīn OC: tshiŋ MC: tshin 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • n(post-N)

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: