babysitter

See also: Babysitter, baby-sitter, and baby sitter

English

Alternative forms

• baby-sitter
• (rare) baby sitter

Etymology

From baby +‎ sitter.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪbiˌsɪtɚ/

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Noun

babysitter (plural babysitters)

1. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

   Synonym: sitter, Hypernym: childminder

   My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers' children.

Derived terms

• babysitter test
• babysit (via back-formation)

Related terms

• house-sitter

Translations

baby or child caretaker

• Albanian: dado (sq)
• Arabic: حَاضِنَة‎ f (ḥāḍina), مُرَبِّيَة‎ f (murabbiya)
• Basque: haurtzain
• Catalan: cangur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 保姆 (bou² mou⁵)

  Mandarin: (literally) 臨時看孩子的人, 临时看孩子 的人 (línshí kān háizi de rén), 保姆 (zh), 保姆 (zh) (bǎomǔ)

• Czech: dozor u dítěte
• Danish: babysitter, barnepige (da), aftenvagt
• Dutch: babyoppas, kinderoppas (nl), oppas (nl), wiegewacht
• Esperanto: vartisto, vartistino (eo)
• Estonian: lapsehoidja
• Finnish: lapsenkaitsija, lapsenvahti (fi)
• French: baby-sitter (fr) m or f, gardien d’enfant f, gardienne d’enfant f, bonne d’enfant f
• German: Babysitter (de) m, Babysitterin (de) f, Kinderhüter m, Kinderhüterin f, Kinderbetreuer m, Kinderbetreuerin f
• Greek: μπέιμπι σίτερ m or f (béimpi síter), φύλακας νηπίων m or f (fýlakas nipíon)
• Hebrew: שְׁמַרְטַף‎ (he) m (sh'martáf), שְׁמַרְטַפִית‎ f (sh'martafít), בייביסיטר‎ m or f (beibisiter)
• Hindi: दाई (hi) (dāī)
• Hungarian: bébiszitter (hu), pótmama
• Icelandic: barnapía, dagmamma (is) f
• Indonesian: pramusiwi (id)
• Irish: feighlí páistí m
• Italian: baby-sitter (it)
• Japanese: ベビーシッター (bebīsittā), 子守 (こもり, komori)
• Khmer: អ្នកមើលក្មេង (neak merl khmeng)

• Korean: 베이비시터 (ko) (beibisiteo)
• Latvian: aukle
• Lithuanian: ateinanti auklė, vaikų prižiūrėtoja
• Macedonian: дадилка (mk) f (dadilka)
• Maltese: bejbisiter
• Norman: gardeux d'êfants m, gardeuse d'êfants f
• Norwegian: barnevakt, kenguru (no)
• Persian: پرستارِ بچه‎ f
• Plautdietsch: Kjinjamejal f
• Portuguese: babá (pt) m
• Romanian: babysitter (ro) m or f, bonă (ro) f, doică (ro) f
• Russian: приходя́щая ня́ня f (prixodjáščaja njánja), ня́ня (ru) f (njánja), бебиси́ттер (ru) m or f (bɛbisíttɛr), бэбиси́ттер m or f (bɛbisíttɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дадиља f

  Roman: dadilja (sh) f

• Slovak: opatrovnica, dozor u dieťaťa
• Spanish: niñera (es) f, niñero m, canguro (es) m (Spain), china (es) f (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
• Swahili: mlezi wa muda, mlei, yaya (sw)
• Swedish: barnvakt (sv) c
• Tagalog: yáya, tagá-alagà ng batà
• Telugu: ఆయా (te) (āyā)
• Thai: พี่เลี้ยง (pîi-líiang)
• Turkish: çocuk bakıcısı, dadı (tr)
• Vietnamese: người giữ trẻ
• Volapük: (♂♀) cilikälädan, (♂) cilihikälädan, (♀) cilijikälädan
• Welsh: gwarchodwr banbanod

See also

• nanny
• nurse

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English babysitter.

Noun

babysitter c (singular definite babysitteren, plural indefinite babysittere)

1. A babysitter.

Inflection

Declension of babysitter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	babysitter	babysitteren	babysittere	babysitterne
genitive	babysitters	babysitterens	babysitteres	babysitternes

Alternative forms

• baby-sitter

Verb

babysitter

1. present of babysitte

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Finnish

Noun

babysitter

1. A babysitter.

Declension

Inflection of babysitter (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		babysitter	babysitterit
genitive		babysitterin	babysitterien babysittereiden babysittereitten
partitive		babysitteriä	babysittereitä babysitterejä
illative		babysitteriin	babysittereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		babysitter	babysitterit
accusative	nom.	babysitter	babysitterit
	gen.	babysitterin
genitive		babysitterin	babysitterien babysittereiden babysittereitten
partitive		babysitteriä	babysittereitä babysitterejä
inessive		babysitterissä	babysittereissä
elative		babysitteristä	babysittereistä
illative		babysitteriin	babysittereihin
adessive		babysitterillä	babysittereillä
ablative		babysitteriltä	babysittereiltä
allative		babysitterille	babysittereille
essive		babysitterinä	babysittereinä
translative		babysitteriksi	babysittereiksi
instructive		—	babysitterein
abessive		babysitterittä	babysittereittä
comitative		—	babysittereineen

Possessive forms of babysitter (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	babysitterini	babysitterimme
2nd person	babysitterisi	babysitterinne
3rd person	babysitterinsä

Synonyms

• lapsenvahti

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Italian

Noun

babysitter m or f (invariable)

1. a babysitter

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English babysitter.

Noun

babysitter m (plural babysitteri, feminine equivalent babysitter)

1. babysitter

Declension

Declension of babysitter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) babysitter	babysitterul	(niște) babysitteri	babysitterii
genitive/dative	(unui) babysitter	babysitterului	(unor) babysitteri	babysitterilor
vocative	babysitterule		babysitterilor

Noun

babysitter f (plural babysittere)

1. female equivalent of babysitter

Declension

Declension of babysitter

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) babysitter	babysittera	(niște) babysittere	babysitterele
genitive/dative	(unei) babysittere	babysitterei	(unor) babysittere	babysitterelor
vocative	—		—

See also

• bonă
• dădacă
• doică
• guvernantă

References

• babysitter in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Swedish

Noun

babysitter c

1. A baby bouncer.

Further reading

• babysitter in Svensk ordbok.