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Meaning of daughter | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR A1 Common
ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. daughter; female equivalent of hijo
  2. One’s female offspring.
  3. a female child (when spoken of in relation to her parents). That is Mary's daughter; She has two daughters. dogter إبْنَه، بِنْت дъщеря filha dcera die Tochter datter θυγατέραhija tütar فرزند دختر tytär filleבת बेटी, पुत्री kćerka, kći l(e)ány(a vkinek) anak perempuan dóttir figlia 娘 딸 duktė meita anak perempuan dochterdattercórka لور filha fiică дочь dcéra hči kćerka dotter ลูกสาว kız evlât 女兒 дочка بیٹی con gái 女儿
  4. a son's wife. skoondogter كَنَّه، زَوْجَةُ الأبْن снаха nora snacha die Schwiegertochter svigerdatter νύφηnuera minia عروس؛ زن پسر miniä belle-filleכלה पुत्र वधू, बहू snaha, sinova žena meny(e vkinek) menantu perempuan tengdadóttir nuora 息子の妻 며느리 marti vedekla menantu schoondochtersvigerdattersynowa ماينه، ښځه، مېرمن nora noră невестка; сноха nevesta snaha snaja svärdotter ลูกสะใภ้ gelin 媳婦 невістка بہو con dâu 媳妇
  5. A daughter language.
  6. hija;___ -in-law → nuera.
  7. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
  8. One's female child.
  9. A descendant.
  10. A female descendant.
  11. A female character of a creator.
    broadly
  12. A woman considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a daughter of the nation.
  13. A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
    derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon
  14. One that is personified or regarded as a female descendant: "Culturally Japan is a daughter of Chinese civilization" (Edwin O. Reischauer).
  15. The immediate product of the radioactive decay of an element.
  16. Possessing the characteristics of a daughter; having the relationship of a daughter.
  17. Of or relating to a cell, organelle, or other structure produced by division or replication: daughter cell; daughter DNA.

Equivalents

አማርኛ ሴት ልጅ
العربية ابنة البنت بت بنت
Azərbaycanca qız
Беларуская дачка
Български дъщеря ще́рка
བོད་སྐད བུ་མོ སྲས་མོ
Bosanski hći
Català filla
Čeština dcera
Cymraeg merch merched
Dansk datter
Deutsch Tochter
Ελληνικά θυγατέρα κόρη
Esperanto filino
Español hija
Eesti tütar
Euskara alaba
فارسی دختر فرزند
Suomi tytär
Français Fille
Gaeilge iníon
Galego filla
ગુજરાતી દીકરી
Hausa 'ya ɗiya
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi kaikamahine
עברית בת
Hrvatski hći
Magyar lány
Հայերեն աղջիկ դուստր
Bahasa Indonesia anak perempuan putri
Íslenska dóttir
Italiano figlia
日本語 いと お嬢さん
Қазақша қыз
ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಗಳು
한국어 따님
Kurdî bîje dotter qîz
Кыргызча кыз
Latina filia nāta
Lëtzebuergesch Duechter
Lietuvių dukrà duktė
Latviešu meita
Te Reo Māori tamahine
Македонски ќерка
മലയാളം പുത്രി
Монгол охин
Bahasa Melayu anak anak perempuan
Malti bint
မြန်မာဘာသာ သမီး
नेपाली छोरी
Nederlands dochter
ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଝିଅ
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਧੀ
Polski córka
پښتو لور
Português filha
Română fiică
Русский дочка дочь дщерь
سنڌي ڌيءُ
සිංහල දුව
Slovenčina dcéra
Slovenščina hči
Soomaali gabadh
Shqip bijë
Српски hći
Svenska dotter
Kiswahili binti
தமிழ் மகள்
Тоҷикӣ духтар
ไทย ลูกสาว
ትግርኛ ጓል
Türkmençe gyz
Tagalog anak
Türkçe kız kız evlat
ئۇيغۇرچە قىز
Українська до́нька дочка
Oʻzbekcha qiz
Tiếng Việt con gái
IsiXhosa intombazana
Yorùbá ọmọ
IsiZulu indodakazi

Examples

“I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.”
“And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.”
“They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.”
“Finnley is the fourth daughter of Jason and Kylie Kelce, having already welcomed Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett to the family.”
“Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?”
“We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration).”
“Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side.”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
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