* Carpatho-Russian: ''Pani'' (a shortened form of ''Panimatka'')
* Finnish: ''Ruustinna'' (from the word ''rovasti'' (protoiereos), in Karelia: Maatuska)
* Old Icelandic: ''prestkonaPrestkona'' ("priest's woman")
* Romanian: ''Preoteasa''
* Russian: ''Matushka'' (literally means "mama," i.e., the intimate form of "mother")
* Ukrainian: ''Panimatka'' or ''Panimatushka'' ("little mama")
==See Alsoalso==
* [[Diakonissa]]