midwife · the godmother of one's child · the mother of one's godchild
çekim: çoğul comadres
eş: partera
köken: Inherited from Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Catalan and Italian comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician and Portuguese comadre, French commère, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.
a child's godmother in relation to their parents: a cummer, co-mother; or a child's mother in relation to their co-mother and her family · a female wedding witness or maid of honor in relation to the spouses, or a bride in relation to her wedding witness · gossipmonger
çekim: çoğul comari
eş: madrina
köken: From Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Catalan comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician, Spanish, and Portuguese comadre, French commère, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.
meter (device that measures things or indicates a physical quantity) · measurer (person who measures something)
çekim: çoğul meters
eş: teller, paat, peettante, petemoei
köken: From Middle Dutch meter, metere, equivalent to meten (“to measure”) + -er. Compare English meter, German Messer m. In some compounds conflated with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron), which is unrelated or, according to one theory, distantly related with the Dutch verb.
midwife · the godmother of one's child · the mother of one's godchild
çekim: çoğul comadres
eş: cumadre
köken: From Late Latin commāter, from com- (“together”) + māter (“mother”). Cognate with Catalan and Italian comare, Neapolitan cummà, Sicilian cummari, Galician and Spanish comadre, French commère, Norman conméthe, Romanian cumătră.
female equivalent of chrzestny, an ellipsis of matka chrzestna (“godmother”)
çekim: çoğul chrzestne · tamlayan chrzestnej
eş: matka chrzestna, kuma, kmotra
köken: Etymology tree Polish chrzestny Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀ Proto-Slavic *-a Old Polish -a Polish -a Polish chrzestna From chrzestny + -a.
godmother (a woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child)
çekim: çoğul keresztanyák
zıt: keresztfiú, keresztlány
köken: From kereszt (“baptizing, christening”) + anya (“mother”).