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


母親

慈母

慈親

阿母

阿媽

媽媽

阿娘

姆媽







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

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • nt(post-N) : 13
  • ntpost-N : 9
  • NP : 8
  • n : 7
  • n[post-N] : 4
  • n(post-N) : 2
  • vadN : 2
  • nadV : 1
  • NP[post-N] : 1

Attributions by text

  • 說苑 : 7
  • 韓非子 : 7
  • 祖堂集 : 5
  • 淮南子 : 4
  • 搜神記 : 3
  • 史記 : 3
  • 戰國策 : 3
  • 孝經 : 3
  • 古列女傳 : 2
  • 春秋左傳 : 2
  • 臨濟錄 : 2
  • 新序 : 1
  • 莊子 : 1
  • 禮記 : 1
  • 百喻經 : 1
  • 老子 : 1
  • 六祖壇經 : 1

Words

  mǔ OC: mɯʔ MC: mu 31 AttributionsWD

    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 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NPloving mother
  • NPadoptiveadoptive motherCH
  niáng OC: mɢraŋ MC: ɳi̯ɐŋ 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • nmother
  • nadVfrom the mother
  niáng OC: naŋ MC: ɳi̯ɐŋ 2 AttributionsWD

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

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

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

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