From how Victorian and Edwardian parents used to tell such rhymes to their children in the nursery, i.e. the children's bedroom.
nursery rhyme (plural nursery rhymes)
- A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore
short poem or song for children
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 兒歌／儿歌 (zh) (érgē), 童謠／童谣 (zh) (tóngyáo)
- Czech: říkanka (cs) f
- Dutch: wiegelied (nl) n, bakerrijm (nl) n
- Finnish: lastenloru, loru (fi) (poem); lastenlaulu (song)
- French: comptine (fr) f, chanson enfantine f
- German: Kinderreim m
- Greek: δίστιχο (el) (dísticho)
- Hungarian: mondóka (hu)
- Icelandic: barnagæla (is)
- Japanese: 童謡 (ja) (どうよう, dōyō), 童歌 (ja) (わらべうた, warabeuta)
- Macedonian: де́тска пе́сничка f (détska pésnička), зала́галка f (zalágalka)
- Norwegian: barneregle m or f
- Bokmål: barnerim n
- Nynorsk: barnerim n
- Portuguese: cantiga de roda f
- Russian: де́тский стишо́к m (détskij stišók), де́тская пе́сенка f (détskaja pésenka), прибау́тка (ru) f (pribaútka)
- Swedish: barnramsa c (when not a song), barnvisa (sv) c (when a song)
- Turkish: tekerleme (tr)
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