Senses
1. mother, female parent — Biological or social mother of a human being, including all pronominal inflections (my/your/his/her/their mother), plural forms (mothers), and figurative/proverbial uses where the referent is still a human mother; Arabic cognate أُمّ in all inflected forms, Korean 어머니, Swahili mama, Hindi माता/माँ uniformly throughout. 217×
AR["أُمُّهُ","أُمِّهِ"]·ben["তাঁর-মা","তাঁর-মায়ের","তাঁর-মার","তার-মাতার","তার-মায়ের","তার-মায়ের।","তার-মার","মা-তাঁর","মায়ের-তার"]·DE["sein-Mutter","seine-Mutter","seiner-Mutter"]·EN["his-mother","its-mother","mother-his"]·FR["mère-son","sa-mère","son-mère"]·heb["אימו","אם-ו","אמו"]·HI["अपनी-माँ","अपनी-माँ-के","अपनी-मां","अपनी-मां-के","अपनी-माता","उस-की-माता-ने","उसकी-माँ","उसकी-माँ-के","उसकी-माँ-ने","उसकी-मां-का","उसकी-माताने","माता-अपनी-की","माता-उसकी","माता-उसकी-के"]·ID["ibunya","induknya"]·IT["madre-suo","sua-madre","suo-madre"]·jav["biyungipun.","ibu","ibu-nipun","ibunipun","ibunipun.","ibunipun;","indukipun,","indukipun."]·KO["그-어머니-의","그-어미의","그의-어머니","그의-어머니가","그의-어머니의","그의-어미","그의-어미의","어머니-그의-의","어머니-그의-의-이"]·PT["mãe-dele","mãe-sua","sua-mãe"]·RU["матери-его","матери-своей","матерью-своей","мать-его"]·ES["madre-suya","su-madre"]·SW["la-mama-yake","mama","mama-yake","na-akasema","wa-mama-yake","ya-mama-yake"]·TR["anasının","annesi","annesinden","annesine","annesinin"]·urd["اس-کی-ماں-کے","اُس-کی-ماں-نے","اُس-کی-ماں-کا","اُس-کی-ماں-کے","اپنی-ماں-کی","اپنی-ماں-کے","ماں-اُس-نے","ماں-اُس-کی","ماں-اپنی","ماں-اپنی-کے"]
Gen 21:21, Gen 24:67, Gen 24:67, Gen 27:13, Gen 27:14, Gen 43:29, Exod 22:30, Exod 23:19, Exod 34:26, Lev 22:27, Lev 24:11, Num 12:12 (+38 more)
2. mother animal, dam — Mother of an animal, used in legal and cultic contexts such as not boiling a kid in its mother's milk (Exod 23:19, 34:26; Deut 14:21) and not taking a mother bird with her young (Deut 22:6); Korean distinctively renders 어미 (animal mother) rather than 어머니 (human mother), confirming a genuine sense boundary. 3×
AR["الْأُمَّ","وَالْأُمُّ"]·ben["এবং-মা","মাকে"]·DE["der-Mutter","und-der-Mutter"]·EN["and-the-mother","the-mother"]·FR["et-le-mère","le-mère"]·heb["ה-אם","ו-ה-אם"]·HI["और-माता","माता"]·ID["dan-induk","induk"]·IT["e-il-madre","il-madre"]·jav["induk","lan-induk"]·KO["그리고-어미가","어미를"]·PT["a-mãe","e-a-mãe"]·RU["-мать","и-мать"]·ES["la-madre","y-la-madre"]·SW["mama","na-mama"]·TR["anayı","ve-ana"]·urd["اور-ماں","ماں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
אֵם221 n.f. mother (Ph. אם, Arabic أُمٌّ, إِمٌّ, Ethiopic እም, Sab. אם (only in n.pr. cf. e.g. BaeRel. 118) Assyrian ummu COTGloss; Aramaic אֵם, אִימָּא, ܐܶܡܳܐ )—א׳ abs. Gn 32:12 +; cstr. Gn 3:20 +; sf. אִמִּי Gn 20:12 + etc.; †pl. only sf. אִמֹּתֵנוּ La 5:3; אִמֹּתָם Je 16:3 La 2:12(×2)— 1. lit. (human) mother, as parent Gn 20:12; 32:12; 44:20 Ex 2:8 ψ 51:7; 113:9 (opp. עֲקֶרֶת) Je 15:8, 10;…