mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child) / one's mother / mother (source or origin) / mother, stem (whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem) / lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)

(Portugal, folklore) Mrs. Claus (Santa Claus’ wife)

surrogate mother (woman who gives birth to a child not her own)

(computer hardware) motherboard (primary circuit board of a computer)

motherland (the country of one’s birth)

(geology) bedrock (underground layer of rock)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tua, mãe. / your mother; your mom (general purpose insult, especially in reply to another insult)

Mother Earth (the personification of Earth and its biosphere)

(euphemistic) son of a gun; euphemism of filho da puta

plural of filho da mãe