mother oor Xhosa

mother

/ˈmʌðə/, /ˈmʌðɚ/ werkwoord, naamwoord vroulike

A (human) female who (a) parents a child or (b) gives birth to a baby. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be (c).

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Xhosa

mama

naamwoord

one’s female parent

The widowed mother may find it extremely difficult to assume these added responsibilities.
Lo mama ungumhlolokazi usenokukufumanisa kunzima ukusingatha ezi mbopheleleko zongezelelekileyo.

umama

naamwoord

one’s female parent

She sometimes helps her mother.
Ngamanye amaxesha ubceda umama wakhe.

unina

female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant

After his father’s death, he was responsible for the care of his mother and sisters.
Emva kokufa kukayise, belinoxanduva lokukhathalela unina walo noodade.

unyoko

female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant

Sometimes a neighbor would tell me: “They have taken your mother away.”
Ngamanye amaxesha ummelwane wasekhaya wayedla ngokuthi: “Bemke naye unyoko.”

Mother

eienaam

One's mother

voorbeelde

Formal mother worship, with ceremonies to Cybele, or Rhea, the Great Mother of the Gods, were performed on the Ides of March throughout Asia Minor.”—(1959), Vol. 15, p.
Ngaphambili unqulo lukamama, olwalunemigidi eyenzelwa uCybele, okanye uRhea, uMama Omkhulu Woothixo, lwalusenziwa ngomhla we-15 kuMatshi kulo lonke elaseAshiya Mayna.”—(1959), Umqu. 15 iphe.

How will his mother discipline him?
Umama wakhe uza kumqeqesha njani?

But Mother knows better.
Kodwa uMama uyazi ukuba ayikenzi nto.

13 After hearing a talk at a circuit assembly, a brother and his fleshly sister realized that they needed to make adjustments in the way they treated their mother, who lived elsewhere and who had been disfellowshipped for six years.
13 Emva kokuba bephulaphule intetho kwindibano yesiphaluka, omnye umzalwana kunye nodade wabo wenyama baqonda ukuba kwakufuneka balungise indlela ababeqhubana ngayo nonina, owayehlala kwenye indawo nowayeneminyaka emithandathu esusiwe.

A mother’s compassion may even motivate her to eat less herself so that her children do not go without food.
Ukuba nomsa kukamama kunokumenza atye kancinane ukuze abantwana bakhe bangaphelelwa kukutya.

For example, just five years before the accident related above, John’s mother had a friend whose child was killed trying to cross that very highway!
Ngokomzekelo, kwiminyaka emihlanu ngaphambi kokuba kwenzeke ingozi esithethe ngayo, umntwana womhlobo kamama kaJohn watshayiswa yimoto wafa xa wayewela kuloo ndlela!

A migrant mother with her three children during the Great Depression of the 1930’s
Umama oyimbacu nabantwana bakhe abathathu ngexesha lokuDodobala Kwezoqoqosho ngeminyaka yee-1930

10 Here Jerusalem is addressed as if she were a wife and mother dwelling in tents, just like Sarah.
10 Apha iYerusalem ifaniswa nomfazi ohlala ezintenteni, kanye njengoSara.

Thereafter, Jesus’ mother and her other children appear but not Joseph.
Kodwa kuye kuthethwe ngonina kaYesu nabantwana bakowabo.

“I try to set the example,” says Elizabeth, a mother of five, “and my children open up to me.
UElizabeth onabantwana abahlanu uthi: “Ngenxa yomzekelo endiwumiselayo, kubalula ebantwaneni bam ukuthetha nam.

And if a mother keeps producing daughters, then she is a loser.”
Yaye ukuba umama uyaqhubeka ezala amantombazana, ngoko uba ngumntu ongafanelekanga.”

Timothy, who traveled extensively with the apostle Paul, had a Greek father and a Jewish mother.
UTimoti, wahamba kakhulu nompostile uPawulos, uyise wayengumGrike unina engumYuda.

Many mothers today say that juggling the stresses of work with the responsibilities of home leaves them overworked, overstrained, and underpaid.
Namhlanje oomama abaninzi bathi ukulungelelanisa uxinezeleko lokusebenza neembopheleleko zasekhaya kubashiya bediniwe, bexinezelekile yaye akuyongenelo.

So, rather than lamenting that you are not as fluent as you are in your mother tongue, focus on communicating clearly using what you have already learned.
Ngoko ke, kunokuba ulilisele ngento yokuba akuthethi ngokutyibilikayo njengaxa uthetha ulwimi lwakho, nikela ingqalelo ekuthetheni ngokucacileyo usebenzisa oko sele ukwazi.

* Do not despise your mother when she is old, Prov.
* Ungamdeli unyoko akuba mdala, ImiZ.

Tom and his wife, who took care of Tom’s elderly mother, were disturbed by her excursions into their bedroom in the middle of the night.
UTom nomkakhe, ababenyamekela umama okhulileyo kaTom, baphazanyiswa kukutyelela kwakhe kwigumbi labo lokulala ezinzulwini zobusuku.

One group of experts on child development explains: “One of the best things a father can do for his children is to respect their mother. . . .
Elinye iqela leengcaphephe zobomi babantwana lithi: “Enye yezona zinto zintle utata anokuzenzela abantwana bakhe kukuhlonela umama wabo. . .

OUR parents —our father and mother— can be a valuable source of encouragement, support, and counsel.
ABAZALI bethu—utata nomama—banokuba ngumthombo oxabisekileyo wokhuthazo, inkxaso nesiluleko.

This was a very difficult time for Mother not only because Father was absent but also because she knew that my younger brother and I would soon face the test of neutrality.
Eli yayilixesha elinzima gqitha kuMama kungekhona ngenxa yokuba uTata wayengekho kodwa nangenxa yokuba mna nomntakwethu sasiza kuvavanywa ubundilele bethu.

“Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’?
“Anizange nifunde na ukuba lowo wabadalayo ukususela ekuqaleni wabenza baba yindoda nebhinqa waza wathi, ‘Ngenxa yesi sizathu indoda iya kumshiya uyise nonina ize inamathele emfazini wayo, baze abo babini babe nyama-nye’?

Jesus’ mother too has come to the wedding.
Nonina kaYesu uzile emtshatweni.

His mother noticed that her son had changed for the better, so she also began to study.
Unina waphawula ukuba unyana wakhe wayenze iinguqulelo ezintle, ngoko naye waqalisa ukufundisisa.

Is Mother-Goddess Worship Still Alive?
Ngaba Ukunqulwa Kukathixokazi Ongumama Kusaqhubeka?

The talk, “Millions Now Living Will Never Die,” convinced my mother that she had found the truth, and she began to attend Christian meetings regularly.
Le ntetho yayinomxholo othi, “Izigidi Eziphilayo Ngoku Azisayi Kuze Zife,” yenza umama waqiniseka ukuba uyifumene inyaniso, yaye waqalisa ukuya kwiintlanganiso zamaKristu rhoqo.

What challenges does one single mother face, and how do we view people like her?
Luluphi ucelomngeni ajamelana nalo omnye umama ongenaqabane lomtshato, yaye sibagqala njani abantu abanjengaye?