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[母] 〔お母さん〕

**mother

【C】母， 母親， お母さん(⇔father)∥ become a mother 母になる， 子を産む / The child hung on his mother's arm. 子供は母の腕にしっかりしがみついていた / Mother asked to be remembered to you. ＝Mother asked me to give her remembrances to you. 母がよろしくと申しておりました / an unmarried mother 未婚の母.

◇→母の

¶→母の日

母
mother

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はは【母】

〔お母さん〕

**mother

〖C〗母， 母親， お母さん(⇔father)

become a mother 母になる， 子を産む

The child hung on his mother's arm. 子供は母の腕にしっかりしがみついていた

Mother asked to be remembered to you. ＝Mother asked me to give her remembrances to you. 母がよろしくと申しておりました

an unmarried mother 未婚の母.

◇ → 母の

¶ → 母の日

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はは【母】

1 〔女親〕 a mother; 《小児語》 《米》 mom, 《英》 mum, mummy; mam, mamma, mama, mammy; 《口》 one's old lady; 〔獣類の〕 a dam.

●実[生み]の母 one's real mother

・夫の母 one's husband's mother; one's mother-in-law

・義理の母 one's mother-in-law

・育ての母 the mother one was raised by

・未婚の母 an unmarried mother

・父と母 one's father and mother; mum and dad.

●母から子へ伝える transmit [communicate] from mother to child.

●母と子 mother and child

・母としての, 母らしい motherly; maternal

・20 歳で母となる become a mother at the age of 20

・妻として母として女優として, 彼女は必死で生きて来た. As a wife, as a mother and as an actress, she has lived her life to the full.

●母になる become a mother

・私は母に似ています. I'm like [I look like] my mother.

・子ザルは母ザルにしっかりしがみついていた. The baby monkey was clinging tightly on to its mother.

●母の愛 maternal affection [love]; a mother's [motherly] love

・母の味 the taste of one's mother's cooking

・母の胸に抱かれて眠る幼子(_おさなご) a small child asleep in its mother's arms [bosom].

●母を亡くす lose one's mother; be left motherless.

●私は物心ついた時からずっと母一人子一人の生活だった. Right from the beginning it was just the two of us, my mother and I, living together.

・女史は「貧民の母」であった. She was a mother to [the mother of] the poor.

2 〔物事のもと〕 cause; a motive.

●母なる大地 mother earth

・母なる川 a mother river.

●必要は発明の母. Necessity is the mother of invention. 【諺】

代理母 a surrogate mother.

母心 motherly feelings; maternal affection.