daughterly

English

Etymology

From daughter +‎ -ly.

Adjective

daughterly (comparative more daughterly, superlative most daughterly)

1. Relating to or characteristic of a daughter.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 391:

     She had lost so much weight her magnificent head looked vulnerable on its swan-like neck, and this new delicacy, this suggestion of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any of the old accusations of daughterly neglect ever had.

Derived terms

• daughterliness
• undaughterly

 

Related terms

• grand-daughterly

Translations

of or characteristic of daughters

• Arabic: بِنْتِيّ (bintiyy)
• Belarusian: даччы́н (daččýn)
• Bulgarian: дъ́щерен (dǎ́šteren)
• Czech: dceřiný (cs)
• Danish: datterlig
• Dutch: dochterlijk
• Estonian: tütrelik
• German: töchterlich
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: datterlig

• Polish: córczyny
• Russian: доче́рний (ru) (dočérnij), дочери́нский (dočerínskij)
• Slovak: dcérsky
• Swedish: dotterlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: дочі́рній (dočírnij), доччи́н (doččýn), до́ньчин (dónʹčyn)