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wet nurse meaning in Assamese

ধাই dhai

wet nurse in Assamese: ধাই (dhai), ধাত্ৰী (dhatri). In English, wet nurse means a woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.

Assamese words for wet nurse

wet nurse
ধাই dhai, ধাত্ৰী dhatri

English meaning of wet nurse

  1. noun A woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.
  2. noun Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
  3. verb To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).

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Questions about wet nurse in Assamese

What is the meaning of wet nurse in Assamese?
Wet nurse in Assamese is ধাই (dhai), ধাত্ৰী (dhatri).
wet nurse ৰ অসমীয়া অৰ্থ কি?
Wet nurse: ধাই (dhai), ধাত্ৰী (dhatri).
What does wet nurse mean in English?
Wet nurse means a woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.

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Assamese words from Wiktionary's Assamese entries whose English meaning is “wet nurse”: ধাই, ধাত্ৰী. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: wet nurse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Assamese words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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