daughter

English

Etymology

From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dôʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK):

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• (General American) enPR: dô'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.tɚ/, /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/, [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ]
• (General American, cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: dä'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.tɚ/, [ˈdɑ.ɾɚ]

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) enPR: dô'tŭ, IPA^(key): /ˈdoːtɐ/
• Homophone: dotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Hyphenation: daugh‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɔːtə(ɹ)

Noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

1. One’s female offspring.

   Synonym: girl

   I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 26:29, column 1:

     And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate.

2. A female descendant.

   Antonym: son

   • 1950 October, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (fiction):

     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?

3. A daughter language.
4. (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
5. (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
   • 2013, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss, “Chapter 7, Some details of sentence structure”, in I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163:

     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).

   • 2017, Yicheng Wu, “Chapter 2, The dynamics of language processing”, in The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 17:

     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.

6. (by extension) A female character of a creator.
7. (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

Alternative forms

• dafter (obsolete)

Antonyms

• (with regard to gender) son
• (with regard to ancestry) mother, father, parent

Hypernyms

• child

Derived terms

• daughterboard
• daughtercard / daughter card
• daughter cell
• daughter company
• daughter cyst
• daughter from California syndrome
• daughter-in-law
• daughter isotope
• daughter language
• daughterless
• daughterling
• daughterly
• daughter nuclide
• daughter of a bitch
• daughter of Eve
• daughter of God
• daughter of joy
• daughter of Sappho
• daughter of the manse
• daughter out
• daughter-out-law
• daughter sauce
• devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter
• Duke of Exeter's daughter
• farmer's daughter
• father-daughter day
• give one's daughter away
• goddaughter / god-daughter
• granddaughter
• great-granddaughter
• gunner's daughter
• kiss the gunner's daughter
• marry the gunner's daughter
• native daughter
• only daughter
• scavenger's daughter
• Skeffington's daughter
• Skevington's daughter
• stepdaughter

 

Descendants

• Australian Kriol: doda

Translations

female offspring

• A-Hmao: 𖽐𖼷𖽑𖽹
• Abkhaz: аԥҳа (apḥa), (old spelling) аҧҳа (apḥa)
• Acehnese: aneuk inöng
• Adyghe: ыпхъу (əpχʷu), ипшъашъ (jipŝaŝ)
• Afrikaans: dogter (af) meisie (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕐𐔰 (ša)
• Aiton: please add this translation if you can
• Akkadian: 𒌉𒊩 (mārtu, DUMU.MUNUS)
• Albanian: bijë (sq) f
• Alutor: ӈавакык (ŋavakək)
• Amharic: ሴት ልጅ f (set ləǧ)
• Andi: йеши (ješi)
• Arabic: اِبْنَة f (ibna), بِنْت f (bint)

  Egyptian Arabic: بت f (bett)

  Moroccan Arabic: بنت f (bent)

• Aragonese: filla (an) f
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܒܪܬܐ f (barəṯā)

  Jewish Aramaic: בְּרַתָּא f (bərattā)

• Armenian: աղջիկ (hy) (aġǰik), դուստր (hy) (dustr)

  Old Armenian: դուստր (dustr)

• Aromanian: hilji f, hilje f
• Assamese: জী (zi), দুহীতা (duhita), পুত্ৰী (putri)
• Asturian: fía (ast) f
• Avar: яс (jas)
• Aymara: phucha (ay)
• Azerbaijani: qız (az)
• Bactrian: λογδο (logdo)
• Bashkir: ҡыҙ (qıź)
• Basque: alaba (eu)
• Belarusian: дачка́ f (dačká)
• Bengali: মেয়ে (bn) (meẏe), বালিকা (bn) (balika)
• Breton: merc'h (br) f, merc'hed (br) pl
• Bulgarian: дъщеря́ (bg) f (dǎšterjá), ще́рка (bg) f (štérka)
• Burmese: သမီး (my) (sa.mi:), သ္မီး (sa.mi:)
• Buryat: басаган (basagan)
• Carpathian Rusyn: дї́вка f (djívka), донька́ f (donʹká)
• Catalan: filla (ca) f
• Cebuano: anak
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: йоӏ (joˀ)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏪᏥ (chr) (uwetsi), ᎤᏪᏥ ᎠᎨᏴ (uwetsi ageyv), ᎠᏇᏥ (aquetsi), ᎠᏇᏥ ᎠᎨᏴ (aquetsi ageyv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 女 (yue) (neoi^5-2)

  Dungan: нүр (nür)

  Eastern Min: 諸娘囝／诸娘囝 (cṳ̆-nè̤ng-giāng)

  Hakka: 妹仔 (moi-é)

  Hokkien: 查某囝 (zh-min-nan) (cha-bó͘-kiáⁿ)

  Jin: 閨女／闺女 (gui¹ ny³), 姑娘 (gu¹ nion³)

  Mandarin: 女兒／女儿 (zh) (nǚ'ér), 閨女／闺女 (zh) (guīnü) (colloquial), 姑娘 (zh) (gūniang) (colloquial)

  Wu: 囡兒／囡儿

  Xiang: 女 (nyy³), 妹子 (mei⁵ zr / mai⁵ zr)

• Chukchi: н'ээкык
• Chuvash: хӗр (hĕr)
• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ϣⲉⲣⲓ f (šeri)

  Sahidic: ϣⲉⲉⲣⲉ f (šeere)

• Crimean Tatar: qız
• Czech: dcera (cs) f
• Dalmatian: felja f
• Danish: datter (da) c
• Dhivehi: ދި (di)
• Dutch: dochter (nl) f
• Eastern Mari: ӱдыр (üdyr)
• Egyptian: (zꜣt f), (šrjt f)
• Elfdalian: duotter f
• Erzya: тейтерь (ťejťeŕ)
• Eshtehardi: تِتیَه (tetiya)
• Esperanto: filino (eo)
• Estonian: tütar (et)
• Even: хунадь (hunaʒ)
• Evenki: хутэ (hutə), хунат (hunat)
• Ewe: vinyɔnu
• Extremaduran: ija
• Faliscan: filea
• Faroese: dóttir (fo) f
• Finnish: tytär (fi)
• French: fille (fr) f
• Friulian: fie f, frute f
• Galician: filla (gl) f
• Georgian: ქალი (ka) (kali), ასული (asuli), ქალიშვილი (ka) (kališvili), შვილი n (švili)
• German: Tochter (de) f
• Gooniyandi: ngaliganyi
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌰𐍂 f (dauhtar)
• Greek: κόρη (el) f (kóri), θυγατέρα (el) f (thygatéra)

  Ancient: θυγάτηρ f (thugátēr)

• Greenlandic: panik
• Guaraní: ajýra (tajýra/rajy/itajýra) (of a man), memby (of a woman)
• Gujarati: દીકરી (dīkrī)
• Haitian Creole: fi
• Hausa: 'ya, ɗiya
• Hawaiian: kaikamahine
• Hebrew: בַּת (he) f (bat)
• Hindi: बेटी (hi) f (beṭī), लड़की (hi) f (laṛkī), पुत्री (hi) f (putrī), दुख़्तर f (duxtar)
• Hungarian: lány (hu)
• Icelandic: dóttir (is) f
• Ido: filiino (io)
• Ilocano: anak
• Indonesian: putri (id), anak perempuan (id)
• Ingrian: tytär, tyttö, neito (folk poetic)
• Ingush: йоӏ (joˀ)
• Interlingua: filia (ia)
• Inupiaq: panik
• Irish: iníon (ga) f

  Old Irish: ingen f

  Primitive Irish: ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ f (inigena)

• Italian: figlia (it) f
• Japanese: 娘 (ja) (むすめ, musume), お嬢さん (ja) (おじょうさん, ojōsan) (honorific), いと (ja) (ito) (archaic)
• Javanese: anak wadon
• Kabardian: пхъу (kbd) (pχʷu)
• Kabyle: ⵢⴻⵍⵍⵉ (yelli)
• Kalmyk: күүкн (küükn)
• Kannada: ಮಗಳು (kn) (magaḷu)
• Karachay-Balkar: къыз (qız)
• Karakalpak: qız
• Karelian: tytär
• Kashmiri: کوٗر (ks) (kūr)
• Kashubian: córa f
• Kazakh: қыз (kk) (qyz)
• Khakas: хызы (xızı)
• Khamti: please add this translation if you can
• Khinalug: риши (riši)
• Khmer: កូនស្រី (koun srəy), តនយា (km) (taʼnaʼyaa), ធីតា (km) (thiidaa), បុត្រី (km) (botrəy)
• Kikuyu: mwarĩ class 1
• Komi-Permyak: ныв (nyv)
• Korean: 딸 (ko) (ttal), 따님 (ko) (ttanim) (honorific)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: keç (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кыз (ky) (kız)
• Lao: ລູກສາວ (lūk sāo)
• Latgalian: meita, (folklore) mārga
• Latin: filia (la) f, nata (la) f
• Latvian: meita (lv) f
• Lezgi: руш (ruš)
• Ligurian: fìggia f
• Lithuanian: duktė (lt) f, dukra (lt) f
• Louisiana Creole French: fiy
• Low German: Dochter (nds) f
• Lü: ᦟᦴᧅᦍᦲᧂ (luukyiing)
• Luxembourgish: Duechter f
• Macedonian: ќе́рка f (ḱérka)
• Malagasy: zazavavy
• Malay: anak perempuan (ms), anak (ms)
• Malayalam: പുത്രി (ml) (putri)
• Maltese: bint f
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᡵᡤᠠᠨ
  ᠵᡠᡳ (sargan jui)
• Manx: inneen f
• Maori: tamāhine (mi), tamawahine, kōtiro, hine
• Marathi: मलगी f (malgī)
• Mazanderani: دتر (dëter)
• Megleno-Romanian: il'ă f
• Middle Persian: duxtar
• Mirandese: filha
• Mòcheno: tochter f
• Moksha: стирь (sťiŕ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: охин (mn) (oxin)

  Mongolian: ᠥᠬᠢᠨ (ökin)

• Nahuatl:

  Classical: ichpoch, ichpochtli, cihuaconetl; xocotzin (last child)

• Nauruan: ñait ân
• Navajo: (a man's) hatsiʼ, (a woman's) achʼéʼé
• Neapolitan: figlia f
• Nepali: छोरी (ne) (chorī)
• Norman: fil'ye f
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: foomen f

  Föhr-Amrum & Mooring: doochter f

• Northern Ohlone: ká̄nakkānaim'in
• Northern Sami: nieida
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: datter (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: dotter f

• Occitan: filha (oc) f
• Odia: ଝିଅ (or) (jhiô)
• Ojibwe: (my daughter) indaanis
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: дъщи f (dŭšti)

  Glagolitic: ⰴⱏⱎⱅⰹ f (dŭšti)

• Old East Slavic: дочи f (doči)
• Old English: dohtor, ċild (ang)
• Old Norse: dóttir f
• Old Occitan: filla
• Old Saxon: dohtar
• Old Swedish: dōttir f
• Ossetian: чызг (ḱyzg)
• Ottoman Turkish: قیز (kız)
• Pashto: لور (ps) f (lur)
• Pennsylvania German: Dochder f
• Persian:

  Dari: دُخْتَر (fa) (duxtar), فَرْزَنْد (fa) (farzand)

  Iranian Persian: دُخْتَر (fa) (doxtar), فَرْزَنْد (fa) (farzand)

• Phake: please add this translation if you can
• Phoenician: 𐤁𐤕 f (bt)
• Pitjantjatjara: uṉṯal
• Plautdietsch: Dochta f
• Polish: córka (pl) f
• Portuguese: filha (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਧੀ (dhī), ਪੁਤਰੀ (putrī)
• Quechua: wawa (qu), ususi
• Rohingya: zíi
• Romagnol: fiöla f
• Romani: ćhaj f

  Kalo Finnish Romani: tšai f

  Vlax Romani: ćhej f

• Romanian: fiică (ro) f
• Romansch: brit f, figlia f
• Russian: дочь (ru) f (dočʹ), до́чка (ru) f (dóčka), дщерь (ru) f (dščerʹ) (ecclesiastic, obsolete or ironic in modern usage)
• Saho: barhä
• Sanskrit: दुहितृ (sa) f (duhitṛ), पुत्री (sa) f (putrī), सुता (sa) f (sutā), नन्दिनी (sa) f (nandinī)
• Sardinian: filla f, fiza f, fitza f
• Scots: dochter
• Scottish Gaelic: nighean (gd) f, (affectionate) nighneag (gd) f, nìonag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ће́рка f, кће́рка f, кћи̑ f

  Roman: ćérka f, kćérka f, kćȋ f

• Sidamo: beetto
• Silesian: cera f
• Sindhi: ڌيءَ (dhī'a)
• Sinhalese: දුව (si) (duwa)
• Skolt Sami: nijdd
• Slovak: dcéra (sk) f
• Slovene: hči (sl) f
• Somali: gabadh (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źowka f

  Upper Sorbian: dźowka (hsb) f

• Spanish: hija (es) f
• Sudovian: dukte f
• Sumerian: 𒌉𒊩 (TUR.SAL)
• Swahili: binti (sw)
• Swedish: dotter (sv) c
• Tabasaran: риш (riš)
• Tagalog: anak (tl)
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: духтар (tg) (duxtar)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: کلا (kəlâ)

• Tamil: மகள் (ta) (makaḷ)
• Taos: phȉwéna
• Tarifit: yeǧi f
• Tatar: кыз (tt) (qız)
• Telugu: కూతురు (te) (kūturu), కుమార్తె (te) (kumārte), పుత్రిక (te) (putrika), (literally: girl) అమ్మాయి (te) (ammāyi)
• Thai: ลูกสาว (th) (lûuk-sǎao)
• Tibetan: བུ་མོ (bu mo), སྲས་མོ (sras mo) (honorific)
• Tigrinya: ጓል (ti) (gʷal)
• Tocharian A: ckācar
• Tocharian B: tkācer
• Tswana: morwadi
• Tundra Nenets: не ню (nye nyu)
• Tupinambá: aîyra (t-, t-) (of a man), membyra (of a woman)
• Turkish: kız (tr), kız evlat (tr)
• Turkmen: gyz, gyyz
• Tuvan: кыс (kıs), уруг (urug)
• Udmurt: ныл (nyl)
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎚 (bt)
• Ukrainian: дочка́ (uk) f (dočká), до́нька f (dónʹka)
• Urdu: لَڑْکی f (laṛkī, literally “girl”), بیٹی f (beṭī), پُتْری f (putrī), کُڑی f (kuṛī), دُخْتَر f (duxtar)
• Uyghur: قىز (qiz)
• Uzbek: qiz (uz)
• Venetian: fìa f, fioła f
• Vietnamese: con gái (vi)
• Vilamovian: tohter
• Volapük: daut (vo)
• Walloon: feye (wa) f, båshele (wa) f
• Welsh: merch (cy) f, merched (cy) f pl
• West Frisian: dochter (fy) c
• Wolof: doom ju jigéen
• Xârâcùù: nêêwâ
• Xhosa: intombazana
• Yakut: кыыс оҕо (kııs oğo), кыыс (kııs)
• Yámana: ma-kipa
• Yiddish: טאָכטער f (tokhter)
• Yoruba: o̩mo̩ obìnrin
• Yup'ik: panik
• Zazaki: keyna (diq), çêna (diq)
• Zhuang: lugsau, lugnyingz, lwgmbwk
• Zulu: indodakazi (zu)

See also

• aunt, uncle
• brother, sister
• cousin

Further reading

• daughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• guardeth