Mother…..Mom….Ma….Mum….Mumsy…..Mama…..Mommy…..Mummy…..Baby Mama…..Mam…..Mamadukes……

Whatever we call her, everyone has a mother (in body or in spirit), is a mother, or knows a mother….

Here are some different ways to say Mother:

Arabic – Ahm

Bulgarian – Majka

Czech – Abatyse

Dutch – Moeder

French – Maman

German – Mutter

Greek – Mana

Hungarian – Anya

Hawaiian – Makuahine

Japanese – Okaasan

Latin – Mater

Maltese – Omm

Persian – Madr

Polish – Matka

Romanian – Maica

Samoan – Tina

Urdu – Ammee

Yiddish – Muter

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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

-Maxim Gorky

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

-Abraham Lincoln

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

-Robert Browning

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-Theodore Hesburgh

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

-Honore de Balzac

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

-George Eliot

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

-Erich Fromm

 

Happy Mother’s Day from The Grammar Diva!