noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).

   "Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad."

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"Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad."

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