老娘婆

Chinese
 
old; aged; venerable
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
 mother; young lady grandmother; matron; mother-in-law
trad. (老娘婆) 老 娘 婆
simp. #(老娘婆) 老 娘 婆

Pronunciation

  • Jin (Wiktionary): lau2 nion1 pe1
  • Jin
    • (Taiyuan)+
      • Wiktionary: lau2 nion1 pe1
      • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /lau⁵³ niɒ̃¹¹ pʰxɤ¹¹/

Noun

老娘婆

  1. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin, Shadi Wu) midwife (female only)

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 助產士 (“midwife”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 穩婆, 產婆
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 助產士
Mandarin Beijing 接生婆, 收生婆, 姥姥
Harbin 老牛婆, 老娘婆
Yantai (Muping) 接生婆兒
Jinan 接生員, 老娘婆, 接生婆
Luoyang 收生婆, 老娘婆
Wanrong 接生員, 拾娃的
Xi'an 包娃的
Yinchuan 老娘婆
Lanzhou 老娘婆
Ürümqi 接生婆
Wuhan 撿生婆
Chengdu 接生婆, 撿生婆
Guiyang 撿生奶, 接生奶
Liuzhou 收生婆, 接生婆
Xuzhou 收生婆兒, 收生婆, 接生婆兒, 接生婆
Yangzhou 收生婆子, 姥姥, 老娘 dated
Nanjing 接生婆, 姥姥
Cantonese Guangzhou 執媽, 執仔婆
Hong Kong 執媽, 執仔婆
Taishan 伴生婆
Dongguan 執仔婆, 生仔婆, 撿仔婆
Gan Nanchang 阿婆
Lichuan 撿伢崽娘
Pingxiang 接生娘
Hakka Meixian 看輕個, 看輕婆, 看輕人
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 產婆, 接生婆
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 輕身婆
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 產婆
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 產婆, 助產士
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 產婆, 接生婆
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 產婆
Huizhou Jixi 接生婆
Jin Taiyuan 老娘婆
Xinzhou 收生婆
Northern Min Jian'ou 拾洗奶
Eastern Min Fuzhou 拾囝婆
Southern Min Xiamen 抾囝姐 dated, 抾姐 dated, 抾姐母, 抾姐婆, 先生媽, 抾姆 dated, older, 抾囝姆 dated, older
Quanzhou 抾囝母, 先生媽
Zhangzhou 抾姐 dated, 抾姐婆, 先生媽, 抾姆 dated, older
Taipei 產婆
New Taipei (Sanxia) 產婆
Kaohsiung 助產士, 抾囝母, 產婆
Yilan 產婆
Changhua (Lukang) 產婆
Taichung 產婆
Tainan 助產士, 抾囝母, 產婆
Hsinchu 產婆
Kinmen 產婆
Penghu (Magong) 產婆
Manila (Hokkien) 抾囝母
Haikou 生囝婆
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 接生婆
Wu Shanghai 助產士, 守生婆, 老娘 dated
Shanghai (Chongming) 老娘婆
Suzhou 老娘
Danyang 收生婆, 接生格
Hangzhou 收生婆
Ningbo 接生老娘, 接生婆
Wenzhou 洗生婆
Jinhua 接生娘, 洗生娘
Xiang Changsha 接生婆
Loudi 收生婆, 接生員
Note Most of the terms are only used for female midwives.
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