wet nurse meaning in Sanskrit
धात्री dhātrī
wet nurse in Sanskrit: धात्री (dhātrī). In English, wet nurse means a woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.
Sanskrit words for wet nurse
- woman hired to suckle another woman's child
- धात्री dhātrī
English meaning of wet nurse
- noun A woman hired to suckle and care for another woman's child.
- noun Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
- verb To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).
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Questions about wet nurse in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of wet nurse in Sanskrit?
- Wet nurse in Sanskrit is धात्री (dhātrī).
- wet nurse इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Wet nurse: धात्री (dhātrī).
- 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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Adapted from Wiktionary: wet nurse (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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