breastfeeding

See also: breast feeding

English

Etymology

From breast +‎ feeding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛstˌfidɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

Noun

breastfeeding (countable and uncountable, plural breastfeedings)

2. (uncountable) The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
4. (countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.

   Synonym: breastfeed

Hypernyms

• feeding
• nursing (suckling) (terms applicable to any mammals (including quadrupeds and whales))

Coordinate terms

• bottlefeeding

Derived terms

• brelfie

 

Translations

activity

• Arabic: رَضَاعَة طَبِيعِيَّة f (raḍāʕa ṭabīʕiyya)
• Bengali: স্তন্যপান (bn) (stônnôpan)
• Catalan: alletament (ca) m, lactància (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餵奶／喂奶 (zh) (wèinǎi), 哺乳 (zh) (bǔrǔ), 母乳餵養／母乳喂养 (zh) (mǔrǔ wèiyǎng)

• Czech: kojení (cs) n
• Dutch: borstvoeding (nl)
• Finnish: rintaruokinta (fi), imetys (fi)
• French: allaitement (fr) m
• Georgian: ძუძუთი კვება (ʒuʒuti ḳveba), ძუძუს წოვება (ʒuʒus c̣oveba)
• German: Stillen n
• Gujarati: સ્તનપાન (stanpān)
• Indonesian: menyusui (id), menetek (id)
• Italian: allattamento (it) m
• Japanese: 母乳栄養 (ぼにゅうえいよう, bonyū eiyō), 授乳 (ja) (じゅにゅう, junyū)
• Latin: nūtrīcātus m
• Malay: penyusuan
• Mon: မိဂမဴတှ် (mnw)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amming m or f

  Nynorsk: amming f

• Persian: شیردهی (širdehi)
• Polish: karmienie piersią n
• Portuguese: aleitamento (pt) m, amamentação (pt) f
• Russian: грудно́е вска́рмливание n (grudnóje vskármlivanije), кормле́ние гру́дью n (kormlénije grúdʹju)
• Serbo-Croatian: dojenje n
• Spanish: lactancia (es) f, amamantamiento (es) m
• Swedish: amning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pag-ut-ot, pagpapasuso
• Ukrainian: годування грудьми n (hoduvannja hrudʹmy)

Verb

breastfeeding

1. present participle and gerund of breastfeed