Portuguese | English |
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mãe noun {f} | parent [parents](source or origin of something) |
mãe adotiva noun {f} | adoptive mother(woman who has adopted a child) |
Mãe de Deus proper noun {f} | Theotokos(God-bearer, referring to the Virgin Mary) |
Mãe Natal proper noun {f} | Mrs. Claus(Wife of Santa Claus) |
Mãe Natureza proper noun {f} | Mother Nature(the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) |
Mãe Rússia proper noun {f} | Mother Russia(national personification of Russia) |
mãe substituta noun {f} | surrogate mother(woman who gives birth to a child not her own) |
Mãe Terra proper noun {f} | Mother Earth(personification of Earth) |
mães noun {f-Pl} | motherhood(mothers as a group) |
a necessidade é a mãe de toda invenção phrase | necessity is the mother of invention(a person in need will find a way) |
alomãe noun {f} | allomother(one that provides maternal care) |
antimãe noun | antimother(a mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers) |
Dia das Mães noun {m} | Mother's Day(a day in honor of one's mother or all mothers, on whichever day) |
ela poderia ser a mãe dele phrase | she could be his mother(woman older than man) |
filhinho da mamãe noun {m} | mama's boy(male overly attached to his mother) |
filho da mãe noun | bastard [bastards](contemptible etc. person) |
futura mãe noun {f} | mother-to-be [mothers-to-be](pregnant woman) |
mais feio que bater em mãe adjective | ugly as sin(extremely ugly) |
mamãe noun {f} | mammy(child's name for mother) mum(mother (informal, familiar)) mummy [mummies](child's term for mother) |
Mamãe Noel proper noun {f} | Mrs. Claus(Wife of Santa Claus) |
Partido Nacional-Socialista dos Trabalhadores Alemães proper noun {m} | National Socialist German Workers' Party(Former German Far-Right political party) |
placa-mãe noun | motherboard(primary circuit board of a computer) |
posição papai e mamãe noun {f} | missionary position(position for sexual intercourse) |
pátria-mãe noun {f} | motherland [motherlands](the country of one's birth) |
rainha-mãe noun {f} | queen mother(widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch) |
rocha-mãe noun {f} | bedrock(underground solid rock) |
tal mãe phrase | like mother, like daughter(a daughter will have traits similar to her mother) |
tua mãe interjection | your mom(a general-purpose insult) your mother(insult) |