abortional

en-adj

abortional (comparative more abortional, superlative most abortional)

more abortional (comparative)
most abortional (superlative)

/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩.l̩/

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(rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.


abortifacient

abortifacient (comparative more abortifacient, superlative most abortifacient)

more abortifacient (comparative)
most abortifacient (superlative)

First attested in 1875. abort + -facient (“causing an”), from Latin facere (“to make”).


abolitionism

en-noun

abolitionism (countable and uncountable, plural abolitionisms)

Norwegian Bokmål: abolisjonisme

Polish: abolicjonizm

/ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.əˌnɪz.m̩/

աբոլիցիոնիզմ

opinion in favor of the abolition of something

Abolitionism is a term that refers to a particular ideological and legal approach to prostitution. The approach has its roots in 19th-century feminism and is still a potent force […] Thus abolitionism arose as a movement against the state regulation of prostitution. The leader of the abolitionist movement was Josephine Butler, […]

2006 January 1, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:

Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.

Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.


abortionist

Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].

The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.

1848 October 7, “Morals and Murder – the Case of Eliza Wilson”, in The Medical Times, volume 18, number 471, London, page 373:

Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.

1998, J. David Bleich, Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective, volume 1, Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, →ISBN, page 277:

According to Bray, “there is a difference between taking a retired abortionist and executing him, and killing a practicing abortionist who is regularly killing babies.” The first act is in Bray’s view retributive, the second defensive.

2003, Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd edition, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24:

In 1962, when abortion was still illegal, I published an anonymous interview with Dr. Robert Spencer, a humane abortionist who was known as “The Saint.”

2005, Paul Krassner, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist, →ISBN, page 24:

[…] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.

2009, Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative, →ISBN, page 191:

Then she asks her to go first to meet the abortionist. Then she neglects to make a reservation at the hotel the abortionist specifies. That almost sinks the arrangement: The abortionist has experience suggesting that hotel will be a safe venue, and suspects he may be set up for a police trap.

2009–2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2010, review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, page 146:

(now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

aborteur

person who performs abortions — see also angel maker

(chiefly derogatory) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.


abbess

From Middle English abbesse, from Old French abeesse (French abbesse), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, feminine of Latin abbas, abbatis (“abbot”).

The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.

Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.

1770, Samuel Foote, The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold by P[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 12:

So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious Maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses, / To please a youth's unsanctified caresses.

1793, John Wolcot, A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope, Ode II, page 33:

"I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety, but generally designated the Abbess of .... Her residence is at no great distance from one of the royal palaces; and she is distinguished for her bold ingenuous line of conduct in the profession which she has chosen to adopt; so much so, indeed, that she eclipses all her competitors in infamy."

1881, Pierce Egan, chapter 8, in Life in London, page 205:

Charles G[odfrey] Leland
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John S[tephen] Farmer
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(archaic, British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.


rag week

From rag (“piece of old cloth”) + week. From the former use, by women, of rags to protect their clothing from menstrual blood.

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I wouldn't bother trying to get off with her – it's rag week.

(British slang, vulgar) The days of the month when a woman has her period.


accoucheur

Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“I place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“I put, place, set”). See accouchement.

der

And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.

1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:

Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163:

(medicine) A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).


abortive

en-adj

abortive (comparative more abortive, superlative most abortive)

more abortive (comparative)
most abortive (superlative)

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First attested in 1382, with the meaning "causing stillbirth or miscarriage". From Middle English abortif, from Old French abortif, from Latin abortīvus (“causing abortion”), from aborior (“miscarry, disappear”), from ab (“amiss”) + orior (“appear, be born, arise”).

abortive medicines

1809, Bartholomew Parr, Medical Dictionary:

Each country may have a different prevalence of infectious abortive agents. The most common agents of abortion in cattle are Brucella spp., Campylobacter spp., Chlamydiaceae, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., […]

2018 May, Carla Sebastiania, Ludovica Curcioa, Marcella Ciulloa, Deborah Crucianib, Silvia Crottib, Cristina Pescab, Martina Torricellia, Martina Sebastianellia, Andrea Felicic, Massimo Biagetti, “A multi-screening Fast qPCR approach to the identification of abortive agents in ruminants”, in Journal of Microbiological Methods, volume 148, →DOI, page 12:

(medicine, pharmacology, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.


abortion

en-noun

abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)

From Latin abortiōnem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort + -ion. Displaced native Old English ǣwyrp (literally “throwing out, rejection”).

surkastuma

fruit/produce that doesn't come to maturity

Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:

The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China. Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried. “They were told by the factory, ‘Have an abortion or be fired’,” she said. They chose to keep her and were fired.

2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere:

Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.

2017 October 5, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian:

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

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abort

→ Polish: abort

→ Portuguese: abort

From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.


abort

en-verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

aborts (present singular third-person)
aborting (participle present)
aborted (participle past)
aborted (past)

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

keskeyttää kasvu

biology: to cause an organism to develop minimally


abort

From English abort, from Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).

to abort; to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term


abort

abort (nominative singular)
abortlar (nominative plural)
abortnıñ (genitive singular)
abortlarnıñ (genitive plural)
abortqa (dative singular)
abortlarğa (dative plural)
abortnı (accusative singular)
abortlarnı (accusative plural)
abortta (locative singular)
abortlarda (locative plural)
aborttan (ablative singular)
abortlardan (ablative plural)


abort

head

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

aborten (definite singular)
aborter (indefinite plural)
abort (indefinite nominative singular)
aborten (definite nominative singular)
aborter (indefinite nominative plural)
aborterne (definite nominative plural)
aborts (genitive indefinite singular)
abortens (definite genitive singular)
aborters (genitive indefinite plural)
aborternes (definite genitive plural)


abort

abort (genitive abordi, partitive aborti)

abordi (genitive)
aborti (partitive)
abort (nominative singular)
abordid (nominative plural)
abort (accusative nominative singular)
abordid (accusative nominative plural)
abordi (accusative genitive singular)
abordid (accusative genitive plural)
abordi (genitive singular)
abortide (genitive plural)
aborti (partitive singular)
aborte (partitive plural)
abortisid (partitive plural)
aborti (illative singular)
abordisse (illative singular)
abortidesse (illative plural)
abordesse (illative plural)
abordis (inessive singular)
abortides (inessive plural)
abordes (inessive plural)
abordist (elative singular)
abortidest (elative plural)
abordest (elative plural)
abordile (allative singular)
abortidele (allative plural)
abordele (allative plural)
abordil (adessive singular)
abortidel (adessive plural)
abordel (adessive plural)
abordilt (ablative singular)
abortidelt (ablative plural)
abordelt (ablative plural)
abordiks (singular translative)
abortideks (plural translative)
abordeks (plural translative)
abordini (singular terminative)
abortideni (plural terminative)
abordina (essive singular)
abortidena (essive plural)
abordita (abessive singular)
abortideta (abessive plural)
abordiga (comitative singular)
abortidega (comitative plural)

Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.


abort

aborten (definite singular)
aborter (indefinite plural)
abortene (definite plural)

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «abort».ogg

From Latin abortus (“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior (“I disappear; miscarry, am aborted (of a baby)”), a compound from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from orior (“I rise, appear, am born”), from Proto-Italic *orjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”).

der

foreta en abort

kjønnsbetinget abort

selvbestemt abort

self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law)

foreldrene sendte ham to tusen kroner og det ble ordnet med illegal abort

1973, Tor Edvin Dahl, Guds tjener, page 136:

his parents sent him two thousand kroner and an illegal abortion was arranged

hun var helt desperat av redsel for at hun ikke skulle få innvilget aborten

1975, Liv Køltzow, Historien om Eli, page 119:

she was desperate for fear that she would not be granted an abortion

Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort

Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion

de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort

1990, Kåre Willoch, Statsminister, page 53:

the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion

(medicine) an abortion (termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication)


abort

aborten (definite singular)
abortar (indefinite plural)
abortane (definite plural)


abort

abort (nominative singular)
aborty (nominative plural)
abortu (genitive singular)
abortów (genitive plural)
abortowi (dative singular)
abortom (dative plural)
abort (accusative singular)
aborty (accusative plural)
abortem (instrumental singular)
abortami (instrumental plural)
aborcie (locative singular)
abortach (locative plural)
aborcie (singular vocative)
aborty (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: poronienie

(medicine) abortion (act of inducing abortion)

(computing) force quit, closing (act of stopping a program)


abort

abort (indefinite nominative singular)
aborts (genitive indefinite singular)
aborten (definite nominative singular)
abortens (definite genitive singular)
aborter (indefinite nominative plural)
aborters (genitive indefinite plural)
aborterna (definite nominative plural)
aborternas (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: abortti

Hon gjorde abort

abort, abortion (the process of ending a pregnancy)


month

en-noun

month (plural months or (UK colloquial) month)

months (plural)
month (UK colloquial plural)

From Middle English month, moneth, from Old English mōnaþ (“month”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”), referring to the moon's phases as the measure of time, equivalent to moon + -th.
Cognate with Scots moneth (“month”); North Frisian muunt (“month”); Saterland Frisian Mound (“month”), Dutch maand (“month”); German Low German Maand, Monat (“month”); German Monat (“month”); Danish and Norwegian Bokmål måned (“month”); Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish månad (“month”); Icelandic mánuði (“month”); Latin mēnsis (“month”); Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn); Armenian ամիս (amis); Old Irish mí; Old Church Slavonic мѣсѧць (měsęcĭ). See also moon.

der

pinch and a punch for the first of the month

July is my favourite month.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

We went on holiday for two months.

Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.

1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.

2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.

Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

(obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.


birth

en-verb

birth (third-person singular simple present births, present participle birthing, simple past and past participle birthed)

births (present singular third-person)
birthing (participle present)
birthed (participle past)
birthed (past)

From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above).

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!

1939, Sidney Howard, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, John Van Druten, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gone with the Wind (film):

Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:

She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”

2023 March 5, Jonathan Bouquet, “May I have a word about… being stuck in a permacrisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).


mither

Inherited from Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor.

'There you gang,' she cries, 'broking wi' thae wearifu' Pharisees o' Caulds, whae daurna darken your mither's door! A bonnie dutiful child, quotha! Wumman, hae ye nae pride, or even the excuse o' a tinkler-lass?'

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


kindle

kindle (third-person singular simple present kindles, present participle kindling, simple past and past participle kindled)

kindles (present singular third-person)
kindling (participle present)
kindled (participle past)
kindled (past)

From Middle English kyndel, from kynde + -el. The verb is derived from the noun form by conversion.

ORLANDO Are you native of this place?
ROSALIND As the cony that you see
dwell where she is kindled.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 344-46:

The poor beast had but lately kindled.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

If she kindled and lost just a few kits and is not bony over her back and hind end, you can rebreed immediately. If she kindled a large litter (more than, say, eight kits), you may wish to wait a week or two before rebreeding so that she can ...

2014, Karen Patry, The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:

(intransitive, of a rabbit or hare) To bring forth young; to give birth.


ate

Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).

bor+

A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.


granddaughter

Coordinate term: grandson


daughter-in-law

en-noun

daughter-in-law (plural daughters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) daughter-in-laws)

daughters-in-law (plural)
daughter-in-laws (colloquial nonstandard plural)

/ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)ɪnˌlɔː/

From Middle English douȝter in lawe; equivalent to daughter + -in-law.


niece

From Middle English nece (“niece, granddaughter”), from Old French nece (“niece, granddaughter”) (Modern French nièce (“niece”)) from Late Latin neptia, representing Latin neptis (“granddaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂ (“granddaughter, niece”). Doublet of nift.

der

My niece just celebrated her 15th birthday.

A daughter of one’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

niggie

fraternal or sororal niece — see also fraternal niece, sororal niece


mother-in-law

en-noun

mother-in-law (plural mothers-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) mother-in-laws)

mothers-in-law (plural)
mother-in-laws (colloquial nonstandard plural)

/ˈmʌ.ðəɹ.ɪnˌlɔː/

/ˈmʌ.ðəɹ.ɪnˌlɑː/

From Middle English moder in lawe; equivalent to mother + -in-law.


woman

desc

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: uman

Aukan: uman

Jamaican Creole: ooman

Krio: uman

Sranan Tongo: uma; oema (superseded)

Torres Strait Creole: oman

→ Japanese: ウーマン (ūman)

→ Korean: 우먼 (umeon)

→ Volapük: vom

From Middle English womman, wimman, wifman, from Old English wīfmann (“woman”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman, female”, whence English wife) + mann (“person, human being”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman (“woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person, female human, woman”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.

com

whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">wife</i>

whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">man</i>

cog

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

behind every great man there stands a woman

behind every successful man there stands a woman

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Balance Turns”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 191:

“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore

1972, Helen Reddy, I Am Woman, first line:

For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42:

Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:

(collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.


o

(Thanh Hoá, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh) paternal aunt, father's sister


sister-in-law

en-noun

sister-in-law (plural sisters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) sister-in-laws)

sisters-in-law (plural)
sister-in-laws (colloquial nonstandard plural)

Inherited from Middle English suster-in-lawe; equivalent to sister + -in-law.

inh+

새언니 (saeeonni) (woman's older brother's wife, lit. "new older sister")

bilas nga babaye (sa igsoong lalaki sa asawa)

bilas nga babaye (sa igsoong lalaki sa bana)

Though they are not twins, my sister-in-law resembles my wife in almost every way.

A female relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:

My sister-in-law and my brother both met while they were on vacation in Jamaica.

(less common) Co-sister-in-law: The wife of one's sibling-in-law.

The wife of the sibling of one's spouse.

The sister of the spouse of one's sibling.


love

English: love

Scots: luve, lufe

Yola: loove

Inherited from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō.

One who one loves; a loved individual:
A lover; a sexual or romantic partner.

A personification or embodiment of love.

(Christianity) The Holy Spirit (or less often, God generally).


grandmother

/ˈɡɹænˌmʌðə/

/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/

From Middle English graundmodre, grauntmoder, granmoder; equivalent to grand- + mother. Compare French grand-mère. Superseded earlier eldmother, eldermother.

don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs

don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep

if my grandmother had balls, she'd be my granddad

if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a streetcar

you kiss your grandmother with that mouth


aunt

→ Hawaiian: ʻanakē

→ Irish: aint

→ Pennsylvania German: Aent

→ Yoruba: àǹtí

From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English mōdriġe (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)). The digraph ⟨au⟩ representing /æ ~ ɑː/ instead of the expected /ɔː/ is irregular, and has not been conclusively explained.

cog

As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

ဒေါ်လေး

younger sister of one's father or mother

백모

eldest brother; father's older brother's wife

ipmi

parent's or their sibling's cousin's wife

The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.

(endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

հորաքույր

affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin

I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.

c. 1604–1606 (date written; published 1608), Thomas Middleton, “A Trick to Catch the Old One”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume II, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 267:


queen

Tok Pisin: kwin

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

Holonym: royal family

But our mercifull Queene Elizabeth hath not burned the popiſh prieſtes on the alters where they committed idolatrie in ſaying of Maſſe, and worſhipped a piece of breade for the bodie of Chriſte (which ſhee might haue done if ſhee would) and yet you count not her for a godly and mercifull Queene.

1582, Thomas Lupton, The Christian Against the Jesuite, London, retrieved 2022-01-14, page 50v:

In 1952, at the last accession, there were only eight members of the new entity taking shape in the outline of the British Empire. The Queen was the head of state in seven of them, and she was proclaimed Head of the Commonwealth to accommodate India’s lone status as a republic.

2017 March 17, Sam Knight, “‘London Bridge Is Down’: The Secret Plan for the Days After the Queen’s Death”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-01-16:

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14:

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).

Know you the town is full of folks?
 Know you the shows are full of queens?
That every mail is full of jokes
 Born of the nation's brightest beans?

1914, Franklin P. Adams, By and Large, Garden City, New York: Doulbleday, Page & Company, retrieved 2022-01-15, page 142:

When I find my queen, we’re having a whole tribe like our grandparents used to swing it back in the day.

1999, Camika Spencer, When All Hell Breaks Loose, New York: Villard, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-01-15, page 38:

en:attractive woman or female romantic partner

(slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.


non

nl-noun

non f (plural nonnen, diminutive nonnetje n)

nonnen (plural)
nonnetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: nònchi (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch nonne, which ultimately derives from Late Latin nonna.


handmaiden

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-handmaiden.wav

* From Middle English hande mayden, handmaiden, hand mayden, hand-mayden, handmayden, hondemaiden, hond maydyn, hoondmaydyn; equivalent to hand + maiden, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".
* (feminist woman who supports transgender rights): An allusion to Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), in which "handmaids" are women who serve the male commanders in a patriarchal dystopia.

sense

Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.

2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain’s Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:


handmaid

Inherited from Middle English handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".

surf

And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:18:

(now historical) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.


lavender

English: launder

Scots: launer

Borrowed from Old French lavandier, lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavandārius.

A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.


daughter

en-noun

daughter (plural daughters or (archaic) daughtren)

daughters (plural)
daughtren (archaic plural)

Australian Kriol: doda

From Middle English doughter, doghter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter


abuela

es-noun

abuela f (plural abuelas, masculine abuelo, masculine plural abuelos)

abuelas (plural)
abuelo (masculine)
abuelos (masculine plural)

→ Hiligaynon: abuéla

→ Papiamentu: wela

Inherited from Late Latin aviola, diminutive from Latin avia.

si mi abuela tuviera ruedas, sería una bicicleta

grandmother, female equivalent of abuelo


female

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *fēmanā
Latin fēmina
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -la
Latin fēmella
Latin fēminader.
Old French femelebor.
Middle English femele
Middle English female
English female
From Middle English female, an alteration of Middle English femele, from Old French femele, femelle (“female”), from Medieval Latin fēmella (“a female”), from Latin fēmella (“a girl, a young female, a young woman”), diminutive of fēmina (“a woman”). The English spelling and pronunciation were remodelled under the influence of male, which is otherwise not etymologically related. Contrast woman, which is etymologically built on man (as in person).

der

One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

(botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.


sister

en-noun

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

sisters (plural)
sistren (archaic plural)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)

→ Japanese: シスター (shisutā)

→ Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)

PIE word
 *swésōr
From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).
In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

妹妹

mui⁶⁻⁴ mui⁶⁻²

My sister is always driving me crazy.

A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.


sister

From Middle English sister, syster, forms of suster influenced by Old Norse systir, from Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


amiga

From Spanish amiga (“female friend”), from Latin amīca.


girl

en-noun

girl (countable and uncountable, plural girls)

desctree

Jamaican Creole: gyal, gal
→ English: gal; gyal
→ Icelandic: gella
→ Japanese: ギャル (gyaru)
→ English: gyaru

Tok Pisin: gel

→⇒ Finnish: kiltsi

→ French: girl; gow

→ German: Girl

→ Hungarian: görl

→ Japanese: ガール (gāru)

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

de:Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.

A young female human, or sometimes a young female animal.

A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand.[…]' […] Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, pages 5–6:

(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)

There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!

1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood:

I took my girl to the cinema to watch your American movies.

1996, Elizabeth Wong, Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy about Getting Along, page 74:

Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?

A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.

Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...

Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.

1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult

When there are two "girl" genes the plant is a girl dwarf.

1972, GSN Gesneriad Saintpaulia News: African Violets, Gloxinias, Other Gesneriads and Exotic Plants:

(somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).


siostra

siostrzyczka (diminutive)
siostra (nominative singular)
siostry (nominative plural)
siostry (genitive singular)
sióstr (genitive plural)
siostrze (dative singular)
siostrom (dative plural)
siostrę (accusative singular)
siostry (accusative plural)
siostrą (instrumental singular)
siostrami (instrumental plural)
siostrze (locative singular)
siostrach (locative plural)
siostro (singular vocative)
siostry (plural vocative)


dziewczyna

pl-noun

dziewczyna f (diminutive dziewczynka, related adjective dziewczęcy or dziewczyński)

dziewczynka (diminutive)
dziewczęcy (adjective)
dziewczyński (adjective)
dziewczyna (nominative singular)
dziewczyny (nominative plural)
dziewczyny (genitive singular)
dziewczyn (genitive plural)
dziewczynie (dative singular)
dziewczynom (dative plural)
dziewczynę (accusative singular)
dziewczyny (accusative plural)
dziewczyną (instrumental singular)
dziewczynami (instrumental plural)
dziewczynie (locative singular)
dziewczynach (locative plural)
dziewczyno (singular vocative)
dziewczyny (plural vocative)

From dziewka + -yna. Compare Slovak dievčina.

Coordinate term: chłopak


kobieta

kobieta f (diminutive kobietka, augmentative kobiecisko, related adjective kobiecki or kobiecy)

kobietka (diminutive)
kobiecisko (augmentative)
kobiecki (adjective)
kobiecy (adjective)
kobieta (nominative singular)
kobiety (nominative plural)
kobiety (genitive singular)
kobiet (genitive plural)
kobiecie (dative singular)
kobietom (dative plural)
kobietę (accusative singular)
kobiety (accusative plural)
kobietą (instrumental singular)
kobietami (instrumental plural)
kobiecie (locative singular)
kobietach (locative plural)
kobieto (singular vocative)
kobiety (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: кабе́та (kabjéta)

→ Kashubian: kòbiéta

→ Silesian: kobiyta

→ Slovincian: kôbjéta

→ Ukrainian: кобі́та (kobíta)

Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
pl:Ida Kurcz

Uncertain. Displaced niewiasta (now considered poetic) and żona (meaning narrowed down to “wife”). Popularized by the Polish Romantic writers in the 19th century. First attested in 1545.
* Possibly from Old Polish kob (“pigpen”) or koba (“mare”) (the ending -ieta is found in some contemporaneous female names (e.g. Markieta, Elżbieta, Greta)); however, this theory has been rejected by most etymologists. Compare kobiałka.
* Boryś asserts the term is a Polish innovation with an unclear root kob- and potentially the original suffix being extended with -ita (compare Middle Polish kobita and najmita), but he rejects the existence of the suffix -ita.
* Bańkowski asserts that the term is not native and suggests Germanic origin, possibly a compound of Middle High German kobe (“sty, shed”) (compare modern German Koben) and *geit (“goat”) (compare modern Dutch geit), originally meaning “a pen for goats” but also, derogatorily, “an enclosure for service maidens”; however, he also questions why the form is -bie- and not -be-.
* Sławski also rejects native origin but is ultimately unable to draw connections to other languages.
* Długosz-Kurczabowa thinks the word may be of native origin, specifically a compound of Proto-Slavic *kobь (“bird-flight divination”) and *věta (“fairy”), but she also does not reject the possibility of foreign origin, suggesting, e.g., Old High German gambetta (“concubine”) or even Finnish kave (“a creature related to the moon, sky, or air”) and Estonian kabu (“castrated animal”) (compare also Proto-Samic *kāpëk), as the source.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kobieta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

der

Coordinate term: mężczyzna

— Dość już tego, przerwała, nie jestem planetą
Z łaski bożéj, dość Hrabio, ja jestem kobietą,
Już wiem resztę, przestań mi pleść ni to ni owo.

1834, Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz^(https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Pan_Tadeusz_(wyd._1834)), page 268:

— Enough of this, she interrupted, I am not a planet
By the grace of God, enough Count, I am a woman,
I already know the rest, stop telling me nonsense.

Justyna Sieńczyłło opowiadała o wsparciu, jakie otrzymuje od kobiet, gdy walczy o utrzymanie teatru, który zakładała ze swoim mężem Emilianem Kamińskim, a także o tym, jakie decyzje repertuarowe podejmuje. – Nawet 80–90 proc. spektakli jest o kobietach. Bardzo mnie interesują kobiety, zresztą dla Emiliana również były ważne – mówiła. Z kolei opera – choć tak pełna kobiecych bohaterek – tworzona jest przez mężczyzn, męska perspektywa trzyma się tak mocno, że Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska jest jedną z nielicznych dyrektorek opery.

2023 November 10, Anna Zaleska, “Kobiety wiedzą, co robią w Poznaniu. Justyna Sieńczyłło: „Kobiety potrafią się wspierać” [FILM]”, in wysokieobcasy.pl, archived from the original on 2023-12-03:

Justyna Sieńczyłło talked about the support she receives from women as she struggles to maintain the theater she founded with her husband Emilian Kamiński, and the repertoire decisions she makes. “Even 80–90 percent of the plays are about women. I am very interested in women, they were important for Emilian as well,” she said. On the other hand, opera, although so full of female characters, is created by men, the male perspective holds so strongly that Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska is one of the few female opera directors.

Papież Franciszek podczas czwartkowego spotkania z Międzynarodową Komisją Teologiczną w Watykanie podkreślił, że „Kościół jest kobietą” i wskazał, że maskulinizacja wspólnoty jest „jednym z wielkich grzechów”. – A jeśli nie zrozumiemy, kim jest kobieta lub czym jest teologia kobiety, nigdy nie zrozumiemy, czym jest Kościół – mówił Franciszek, cytowany przez eKAI.

2023 December 2, “Papież Franciszek wskazał „wielki grzech Kościoła”. W tle sprawa kobiet”, in onet.pl, archived from the original on 2023-12-03:

Pope Francis, at a meeting with the International Theological Commission at the Vatican on Thursday, stressed that “the Church is a woman” and pointed out that the masculinization of the community is “one of the great sins.” “And if we do not understand who a woman is or what a woman's theology is, we will never understand what the Church is,” said Francis, as quoted by eKAI.

(Middle Polish, derogatory) promiscuous woman

woman (adult female human)
promiscuous woman


dziwka

pl-noun

dziwka f (diminutive dziweczka, augmentative dziwa)

dziweczka (diminutive)
dziwa (augmentative)
dziwka (nominative singular)
dziwki (nominative plural)
dziwki (genitive singular)
dziwek (genitive plural)
dziwce (dative singular)
dziwkom (dative plural)
dziwkę (accusative singular)
dziwki (accusative plural)
dziwką (instrumental singular)
dziwkami (instrumental plural)
dziwce (locative singular)
dziwkach (locative plural)
dziwko (singular vocative)
dziwki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish dziéwka, from Proto-Slavic *děvъka. Doublet of dziewka (“girl”).


krowa

krowa f (diminutive krówka, augmentative krówsko, related adjective krowi)

krówka (diminutive)
krówsko (augmentative)
krowi (adjective)
krowa (nominative singular)
krowy (nominative plural)
krowy (genitive singular)
krów (genitive plural)
krowie (dative singular)
krowom (dative plural)
krowę (accusative singular)
krowy (accusative plural)
krową (instrumental singular)
krowami (instrumental plural)
krowie (locative singular)
krowach (locative plural)
krowo (singular vocative)
krowy (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: byk

cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved)

cow (female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants)


kurwa

kurwa f (diminutive kurewka, augmentative kurwisko)

kurewka (diminutive)
kurwisko (augmentative)
kurwa (nominative singular)
kurwy (nominative plural)
kurwy (genitive singular)
kurew (genitive plural)
kurw (genitive plural)
kurwie (dative singular)
kurwom (dative plural)
kurwę (accusative singular)
kurwy (accusative plural)
kurwą (instrumental singular)
kurwami (instrumental plural)
kurwie (locative singular)
kurwach (locative plural)
kurwo (singular vocative)
kurwy (plural vocative)

→ Lithuanian: kurwa

→ Yiddish: קורווע (kurve)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kury, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂-. Cognate with Latin cārus, Latvian kārs. For semantic development, compare English whore.

Ziemię pomierzył i głębokie morze, / Wie, jako wstają i zachodzą zorze, / Wiatrom rozumie, praktykuje komu — / A sam nie widzi, że ma kurwę w domu.

16th century, Jan Kochanowski, Na matematyka^(https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Na_matematyka_(Kochanowski,_1883)):

He measured Earth and deep seas, / He knows how dawns rise and go down, / He understand winds, he gives practices, / But he do not sees he has whore in home.

(offensive, vulgar) bitch, slut, whore; term of abuse for women

(offensive, vulgar) a loathsome person, especially one who is unprincipled; someone who lacks integrity; gender-neutral


kurwa

hsb-noun

kurwa f (masculine kurwar, diminutive kurwička)

kurwar (masculine)
kurwička (diminutive)
kurwa (nominative singular)
kurwje (dual nominative)
kurwy (nominative plural)
kurwy (genitive singular)
kurwow (dual genitive)
kurwow (genitive plural)
kurwje (dative singular)
kurwomaj (dative dual)
kurwam (dative plural)
kurwu (accusative singular)
kurwje (accusative dual)
kurwy (accusative plural)
kurwu (instrumental singular)
kurwomaj (dual instrumental)
kurwami (instrumental plural)
kurwje (locative singular)
kurwomaj (dual locative)
kurwach (locative plural)
kurwa (singular vocative)
kurwje (dual vocative)
kurwy (plural vocative)


minister

pl-noun

minister m pers (female equivalent minister or ministerka, abbreviation min.)

minister (feminine)
ministerka (feminine)
min. (abbreviation)
minister (nominative singular)
ministrowie (nominative plural)
ministry (derogatory nominative plural)
ministra (genitive singular)
ministrów (genitive plural)
ministrowi (dative singular)
ministrom (dative plural)
ministra (accusative singular)
ministrów (accusative plural)
ministrem (instrumental singular)
ministrami (instrumental plural)
ministrze (locative singular)
ministrach (locative plural)
ministrze (singular vocative)
ministrowie (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish minister. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from French ministre.

sl

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) abbot, prior (high-ranking member of a monastery)

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) head of a Franciscan cloister


prezerwatywa

prezerwatywa (nominative singular)
prezerwatywy (nominative plural)
prezerwatywy (genitive singular)
prezerwatyw (genitive plural)
prezerwatywie (dative singular)
prezerwatywom (dative plural)
prezerwatywę (accusative singular)
prezerwatywy (accusative plural)
prezerwatywą (instrumental singular)
prezerwatywami (instrumental plural)
prezerwatywie (locative singular)
prezerwatywach (locative plural)
prezerwatywo (singular vocative)
prezerwatywy (plural vocative)


mutt

muti (genitive)
mutti (partitive)
mutt (nominative singular)
mutid (nominative plural)
mutt (accusative nominative singular)
mutid (accusative nominative plural)
muti (accusative genitive singular)
mutid (accusative genitive plural)
muti (genitive singular)
muttide (genitive plural)
mutti (partitive singular)
mutte (partitive plural)
muttisid (partitive plural)
mutti (illative singular)
mutisse (illative singular)
muttidesse (illative plural)
mutesse (illative plural)
mutis (inessive singular)
muttides (inessive plural)
mutes (inessive plural)
mutist (elative singular)
muttidest (elative plural)
mutest (elative plural)
mutile (allative singular)
muttidele (allative plural)
mutele (allative plural)
mutil (adessive singular)
muttidel (adessive plural)
mutel (adessive plural)
mutilt (ablative singular)
muttidelt (ablative plural)
mutelt (ablative plural)
mutiks (singular translative)
muttideks (plural translative)
muteks (plural translative)
mutini (singular terminative)
muttideni (plural terminative)
mutina (essive singular)
muttidena (essive plural)
mutita (abessive singular)
muttideta (abessive plural)
mutiga (comitative singular)
muttidega (comitative plural)


matka

cs-noun

matka f (related adjective mateřský, possessive adjective matčin)

mateřský (adjective)
matčin (adjective possessive)
matka (nominative singular)
matky (nominative plural)
matky (genitive singular)
matek (genitive plural)
matce (dative singular)
matkám (dative plural)
matku (accusative singular)
matky (accusative plural)
matko (singular vocative)
matky (plural vocative)
matce (locative singular)
matkách (locative plural)
matkou (instrumental singular)
matkami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech matka, from Proto-Slavic *matъka. By surface analysis, máti + -ka.


matka

matka (nominative singular)
matczi (nominative plural)
matczi (genitive singular)
matk (genitive plural)
matków (genitive plural)
matce (dative singular)
matkóm (dative plural)
matkã (accusative singular)
matczi (accusative plural)
matką (instrumental singular)
matkama (instrumental plural)
matce (locative singular)
matkach (locative plural)
matkò (singular vocative)
matczi (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *matъka. By surface analysis, mac + -ka.


matka

pl-noun

matka f (diminutive mateczka or mateńka or matuchna or (dialectal) matynka or matusia or matuś, augmentative matczysko, related adjective matczyny)

mateczka (diminutive)
mateńka (diminutive)
matuchna (diminutive)
matynka (dialectal diminutive)
matusia (diminutive)
matuś (diminutive)
matczysko (augmentative)
matczyny (adjective)

Inherited from Old Polish matka. By surface analysis, mać + -ka.

(countable) mother (human female who begets a child)

(countable) mother (animal female that begets a child)

(countable, zoology) queen (female insect that begets others)

(uncountable, obsolete, children's games) type of children's game


matka

matka (nominative singular)
matki (nominative plural)
matki (genitive singular)
matek (genitive plural)
matce (dative singular)
matkōm (dative plural)
matkã (accusative singular)
matki (accusative plural)
matkōm (instrumental singular)
matkami (instrumental plural)
matkōma (instrumental plural)
matce (locative singular)
matkach (locative plural)
matko (singular vocative)
matki (plural vocative)


matka

nominative
matka (singular)
matky (plural)
genitive
matky (singular)
matiek (plural)
dative
matke (singular)
matkám (plural)
accusative
matku (singular)
locative
matkách (plural)
instrumental
matkou (singular)
matkami (plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *matъka. By surface analysis, mať + -ka.


regina

la-noun

rēgīna f (genitive rēgīnae, masculine rēx); first declension

rēgīna (canonical feminine)
rēgīnae (genitive)
rēx (masculine)
rēgīna (nominative singular)
rēgīnae (nominative plural)
rēgīnae (genitive singular)
rēgīnārum (genitive plural)
rēgīnae (dative singular)
rēgīnīs (dative plural)
rēgīnam (accusative singular)
rēgīnās (accusative plural)
rēgīnā (ablative singular)
rēgīnīs (ablative plural)
rēgīna (singular vocative)
rēgīnae (plural vocative)

Asturian: reina

Franco-Provençal: rêna

Friulian: reìne

Italian: regina

Maltese: reġina

Neapolitan: riggina

desctree

Old French: royne
French: reine
Norman: royne, ranne, reine
Walloon: royinne
→ Old East Slavic: ръ́ина (rŭ́ina)

Old Galician-Portuguese: reinha, reỹa, reynna, reýña, reyña, rreýña, rreyña, rainha, raynna, raỹa, rayña
Galician: raíña
Portuguese: rainha

Old Occitan: reina
Occitan: reina

Old Spanish: reyna
Spanish: reina (see there for further descendants)

Romansch: regina, rigegna, raïna

Sardinian: reina, arreina

desc

Sicilian: rijina (obsolete), riggina (influenced by Italian)

Venetan: rexina

Walloon: royinne

→ Basque: erregina

→ English: Regina, regina

→ Interlingua: regina

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: regina

→ Romanian: regină

→ Translingual: Regina

Inherited from Proto-Italic *rēgīnā, see there for more. A feminine counterpart to rēx, rēgis (“king”).

‘cūr igitur rēgīna vocor prīncepsque deārum?

“Therefore, why am I being called queen and foremost of the goddesses? Why have they given me a golden scepter for my right hand?”


mother

Australian Kriol: motha

→ Japanese: マザー (mazā)

→ Korean: 마더 (madeo)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and matter.
Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.

ан

female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant

metro-

of or pertaining to the mother, such as metropolis

my very educated mother just served us nachos

my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas

my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins

my very educated mother just served us noodles

my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas

My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.

He had something of his mother in him.

He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.

The "Ritual to Celebrate Birthing" begins with a leader welcoming all participants : "Welcome to this celebration for N. She is approaching the time when she will become a mother for the first time (or become a mother again).

2005, Trudelle Thomas, Spirituality in the Mother Zone: Staying Centered, Finding God, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 41:

A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.


give birth

en-verb

give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)

gives birth (present singular third-person)
giving birth (participle present)
gave birth (past)
given birth (participle past)

It was clear that she was about to give birth.

(intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.


sy

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃɨ, from Proto-Tupian *tɨ.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní xy and Guaraní sy


여자

Sino-Korean word from 女子, from 女 (“female”) + 子 (“offspring”)

ko-etym-Sino

여자친구

여자 세 명이 왔다 갔다.


pen

Sa see pal te pen?


maid

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of Middle English maiden from Old English mæġden (Old English mǣden). Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“girl, virgin”).

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).


maid

maid, especially in reference to Japanese fiction or in reference to the French maid outfit


blonde

en-adj

blonde (comparative blonder or more blonde, superlative blondest or most blonde)

blonder (comparative)
more blonde (comparative)
blondest (superlative)
most blonde (superlative)

Emma's already huge green eyes widen and she gives me this look like, “Oh my God, sometimes you are just so blonde!”

2005, Nancy Bartholomew, Lethally Blonde, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 8:

I was so blonde I honestly had no idea why he got so angry. He cooled on me for a week or so.

2014, Aviva Drescher, Leggy Blonde: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“She was so blonde, she studied for a blood test, when she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, 'Airport Left,' she turned around and went home, when she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.

2003, Bennett Fairorth, The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 201:

(especially of a woman, offensive) Stupid, ignorant, naive.


ben

head

ben f (genitive singular mreih, plural mraane)

mreih (genitive singular)
mraane (plural)
ben (mutation mutation-radical)
ven (lenition mutation)
men (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.


ben

ben f (genitive mná, nominative plural mná)

mná (genitive)
mná (nominative plural)
ben (nominative singular)
mnaí (dual nominative)
mná (nominative plural)
ben (singular vocative)
mnaí (dual vocative)
mná (plural vocative)
bein (accusative singular)
mnaí (accusative singular)
mnaí (accusative dual)
mná (accusative plural)
mná (genitive singular)
ban (dual genitive)
ban (genitive plural)
mnaí (dative singular)
mnáib (dative dual)
mnáib (dative plural)

Middle Irish: ben

Irish: bean

Manx: ben

Scottish Gaelic: bean

⇒ Middle Irish: benagán

From Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli ar mban”

lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of our women”


maiden

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.

She's unmarried and still a maiden.


dada

dada (nominative)
dadanıñ (genitive)
dadağa (dative)
dadanı (accusative)
dadada (locative)
dadadan (ablative)

From Ottoman Turkish دادا (dâdâ, “nanny, nurse”), from Persian دادا (dâdâ, “nanny, nurse”). Compare Turkish dadı and Serbo-Croatian dàdilja.


dada

Coordinate term: kaka


nurse

→ Bengali: নার্স (narśo)

→ Cebuano: nars

→ Danish: nurse

→ Hausa: nâs

→ Hindi: नर्स (nars)

→ Indonesian: ners

→ Kalenjin: nas

→ Kamba: nasi

→ Limburgish: nurs

→ Luo: nas

→ Maltese: ners

→ Nepali: नर्स (narsa)

→ Romanian: nursă

→ Tagalog: nars

→ Urdu: نرس (nars)

→ Welsh: nyrs

From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”).

verpleegkundige

person trained to provide care for the sick


suka

pl-noun

suka f (diminutive suczka, related adjective suczy)

suczka (diminutive)
suczy (adjective)
suka (nominative singular)
suki (nominative plural)
suki (genitive singular)
suk (genitive plural)
suce (dative singular)
sukom (dative plural)
sukę (accusative singular)
suki (accusative plural)
suką (instrumental singular)
sukami (instrumental plural)
suce (locative singular)
sukach (locative plural)
suko (singular vocative)
suki (plural vocative)

→ Vilamovian: su̇ka

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sùka, further etymology unclear.
Sense #3 from an association with pies (“dog, slang: cop”).


pin

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).


wife

Sranan Tongo: wefi

desctree

→ Japanese: ワイフ (waifu)
→ English: waifu

→ Korean: 와이프 (waipeu)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Middle English wyf
English wife
Inherited from Middle English wyf, wif, from Old English wīf (“woman, wife”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīb, from Proto-Germanic *wībą (“woman, wife”).
Germanic cognates include Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“wife, woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).
The further etymology is unknown, with a number of disputed suggestions. One suggestion connects Tocharian A/B kip/kwīpe (“genitals, female pudenda”), for a hypothetical Indo-European *gʰwíbʰ- (“pudenda”).
Another suggestion connects Old English wǣfan (“wrap, clothe”), Old Norse vífa (“wrap, veil”) for a suggested original motive of "married woman wearing a scarf".
Yet another suggestion connects Old High German weibōn (“move to and fro”), Old Norse veifa (“swing, throw”), for a motive of "one who is moving busily; housekeeper, maidservant" (cf. German Weibel (“manservant, usher”)).

cog

The Fisherman and His Wife

And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]

1558 April 29, Sir William Drurye, Will of Sir William Drurye [of Hawstede, Suffolk], Prerogative Court of Canterbury, page 1:

It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.
All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.

Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.

2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:

A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.

A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.


wife

en-verb

wife (third-person singular simple present wifes, present participle wifing, simple past and past participle wifed)

wifes (present singular third-person)
wifing (participle present)
wifed (participle past)
wifed (past)

Mentally scarred for life, love is war / And some chicks are just too hard to wife

2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:

Mecca knew she wasn't lying. She had the type of beauty that made niggas want to wife her.

2009, Ashley Antoinette Coleman, JaQuavis Coleman, The Cartel, volume 1, →ISBN, page 106:

I thought that I was going to wife her, but because of the new news with my brother I couldn't do it.

2010, Kenya K. Watkins, The Life You Choose, →ISBN, page 154:

But I told you that you're not a wifeable woman, and I told him so, and he wanted to wife you anyway.

(slang, African-American Vernacular) To marry (a woman).


poetess

/ˌpəʊ.ɪˈtɛs/

From poet + -ess. Compare Middle English poetresse (“poetess”).

The ancient poetess singeth, that Hesperus all things bringeth, / Smoothing the wearied mind: bring me my love, Rosalind.

1830, Alfred Tennyson, “Leonine Elegiacs”, in Juvenilia:


mama

Originally from baby talk. Possibly influenced by Middle English mome (“mother, aunt”), from Old English *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother, aunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, reduplication of *méh₂- (“mother”), related to German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”).

onomatopoeic

baby talk

All the flowers that you planted, mama, in the backyard / All died when you went away

1990, Prince (lyrics and music), “Nothing Compares 2 U”, performed by Sinéad O’Connor:

(hypocoristic, usually childish, Canada, US) Mother, female parent.


mama

nl-noun

mama f (plural mama's, diminutive mamaatje n)

mama's (plural)
mamaatje (diminutive neuter)

Berbice Creole Dutch: mama

Negerhollands: mama, Mama

→ Virgin Islands Creole: muma

Mama, ik heb honger!


mama

mā̀ma (canonical feminine)
mā̀mar̃ (possessed-form)


mama

mamák (plural)
mama (nominative singular)
mamák (nominative plural)
mamát (accusative singular)
mamákat (accusative plural)
mamának (dative singular)
mamáknak (dative plural)
mamával (instrumental singular)
mamákkal (instrumental plural)
mamáért (causal-final singular)
mamákért (causal-final plural)
mamává (singular translative)
mamákká (plural translative)
mamáig (singular terminative)
mamákig (plural terminative)
mamaként (essive-formal singular)
mamákként (essive-formal plural)
mamában (inessive singular)
mamákban (inessive plural)
mamán (singular superessive)
mamákon (plural superessive)
mamánál (adessive singular)
mamáknál (adessive plural)
mamába (illative singular)
mamákba (illative plural)
mamára (singular sublative)
mamákra (plural sublative)
mamához (allative singular)
mamákhoz (allative plural)
mamából (elative singular)
mamákból (elative plural)
mamáról (delative singular)
mamákról (delative plural)
mamától (ablative singular)
mamáktól (ablative plural)
mamáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mamáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
mamáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
mamákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
mamám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
mamáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
mamád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
mamáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
mamája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
mamái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
mamánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
mamáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
mamátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
mamáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
mamájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
mamáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Coordinate term: papa


mama

Borrowed from English mama, French maman, German Mama, Italian mamma, Russian ма́ма (máma), Spanish mamá.


mama

mama (nominative singular)
mamat (nominative plural)
maman (genitive singular)
mammoin (genitive plural)
mammaa (partitive singular)
mamoja (partitive plural)
mammaa (illative singular)
mammoi (illative plural)
mamas (inessive singular)
mamois (inessive plural)
mamast (elative singular)
mamoist (elative plural)
mamalle (allative singular)
mamoille (allative plural)
mamal (adessive singular)
mamoil (adessive plural)
mamalt (ablative singular)
mamoilt (ablative plural)
mamaks (singular translative)
mamoiks (plural translative)
mamanna (essive singular)
mammaan (essive singular)
mamoinna (essive plural)
mammoin (essive plural)
mamant (exessive singular)
mamoint (exessive plural)

Kana, ka-ka-ka, na, mama, kana.

1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva:

A hen, cluck cluck cluck, here, mummy, a hen.


mama

mameņa (diminutive)
mama (nominative singular)
mamys (nominative plural)
mamas (dialectal nominative plural)
mamys (genitive singular)
mamas (dialectal genitive singular)
mamu (genitive plural)
mamai (dative singular)
mamom (dative plural)
mamu (accusative singular)
mamys (accusative plural)
mamas (accusative dialectal plural)
mamu (instrumental singular)
mamom (instrumental plural)
mamā (locative singular)
mamuos (locative plural)
mama (singular vocative)
mam (singular vocative)
mamys (plural vocative)
mamas (dialectal plural vocative)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ. Cognates include Latvian mama and Lithuanian mama.


mama

mamà (canonical feminine stress-pattern-4)
mãmos (plural)
mamà (nominative singular)
mãmos (nominative plural)
mamõs (genitive singular)
mamų̃ (genitive plural)
mãmai (dative singular)
mamóms (dative plural)
mãmą (accusative singular)
mamàs (accusative plural)
mamà (instrumental singular)
mamomìs (instrumental plural)
mamojè (locative singular)
mamosè (locative plural)
mãma (singular vocative)
mãmos (plural vocative)

A nursery word. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, a reduplication of *méh₂- - the root of *méh₂tēr (“mother”).
Cognate with Proto-Slavic *mama, German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”) among others.

onomatopoeic

nursery


mama

maminka (diminutive)
mama (nominative singular)
mamje (dual nominative)
mamy (nominative plural)
mamy (genitive singular)
mamowu (dual genitive)
mamow (genitive plural)
mamje (dative singular)
mamoma (dative dual)
mamam (dative plural)
mamu (accusative singular)
mamje (accusative dual)
mamy (accusative plural)
mamu (instrumental singular)
mamoma (dual instrumental)
mamami (instrumental plural)
mamje (locative singular)
mamoma (dual locative)
mamach (locative plural)

A nursery word. From Proto-Slavic *mama, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, a reduplication of *méh₂- - the root of *méh₂tēr (“mother”).
Cognate with German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”) among others. Cf. Proto-Slavic *tata, *baba.

nursery


mama

Possibly derived from Middle High German muome, from Old High German muoma, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā (“mama, mother”), from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mama, mother; aunt, auntie”). Cognate with German Mama, English mama.


mama

mamula (dialectal diminutive)
mama (nominative singular)
mamy (nominative plural)
mamy (genitive singular)
mam (genitive plural)
mamie (dative singular)
mamom (dative plural)
mamę (accusative singular)
mamy (accusative plural)
mamą (instrumental singular)
mamami (instrumental plural)
mamie (locative singular)
mamach (locative plural)
mamo (singular vocative)
mamy (plural vocative)


mama

mama (nominative singular)
mamakuna (nominative plural)
mamata (accusative singular)
mamakunata (accusative plural)
mamaman (dative singular)
mamakunaman (dative plural)
mamap (genitive singular)
mamakunap (genitive plural)
mamapi (locative singular)
mamakunapi (locative plural)
mamakama (singular terminative)
mamakunakama (plural terminative)
mamamanta (ablative singular)
mamakunamanta (ablative plural)
mamawan (instrumental singular)
mamakunawan (instrumental plural)
mamantin (comitative singular)
mamakunantin (comitative plural)
mamannaq (abessive singular)
mamakunannaq (abessive plural)
mamahina (comparative singular)
mamakunahina (comparative plural)
mamarayku (causative singular)
mamakunarayku (causative plural)
mamapaq (benefactive singular)
mamakunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamapura (associative singular)
mamakunapura (associative plural)
mamanka (distributive)
mamakunanka (distributive)
mamalla (exclusive singular)
mamakunalla (exclusive plural)
mamay (nominative singular)
mamaykuna (nominative plural)
mamayta (accusative singular)
mamaykunata (accusative plural)
mamayman (dative singular)
mamaykunaman (dative plural)
mamaypa (genitive singular)
mamaykunap (genitive plural)
mamaypi (locative singular)
mamaykunapi (locative plural)
mamaykama (singular terminative)
mamaykunakama (plural terminative)
mamaymanta (ablative singular)
mamaykunamanta (ablative plural)
mamaywan (instrumental singular)
mamaykunawan (instrumental plural)
mamaynintin (comitative singular)
mamaykunantin (comitative plural)
mamayninnaq (abessive singular)
mamaykunannaq (abessive plural)
mamayhina (comparative singular)
mamaykunahina (comparative plural)
mamayrayku (causative singular)
mamaykunarayku (causative plural)
mamaypaq (benefactive singular)
mamaykunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamaypura (associative singular)
mamaykunapura (associative plural)
mamayninka (distributive)
mamaykunanka (distributive)
mamaylla (exclusive singular)
mamaykunalla (exclusive plural)
mamayki (nominative singular)
mamaykikuna (nominative plural)
mamaykita (accusative singular)
mamaykikunata (accusative plural)
mamaykiman (dative singular)
mamaykikunaman (dative plural)
mamaykipa (genitive singular)
mamaykikunap (genitive plural)
mamaykipi (locative singular)
mamaykikunapi (locative plural)
mamaykikama (singular terminative)
mamaykikunakama (plural terminative)
mamaykimanta (ablative singular)
mamaykikunamanta (ablative plural)
mamaykiwan (instrumental singular)
mamaykikunawan (instrumental plural)
mamaykintin (comitative singular)
mamaykikunantin (comitative plural)
mamaykinnaq (abessive singular)
mamaykikunannaq (abessive plural)
mamaykihina (comparative singular)
mamaykikunahina (comparative plural)
mamaykirayku (causative singular)
mamaykikunarayku (causative plural)
mamaykipaq (benefactive singular)
mamaykikunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamaykipura (associative singular)
mamaykikunapura (associative plural)
mamaykinka (distributive)
mamaykikunanka (distributive)
mamaykilla (exclusive singular)
mamaykikunalla (exclusive plural)
maman (nominative singular)
mamankuna (nominative plural)
mamanta (accusative singular)
mamankunata (accusative plural)
mamanman (dative singular)
mamankunaman (dative plural)
mamanpa (genitive singular)
mamankunap (genitive plural)
mamanpi (locative singular)
mamankunapi (locative plural)
mamankama (singular terminative)
mamankunakama (plural terminative)
mamanmanta (ablative singular)
mamankunamanta (ablative plural)
mamanwan (instrumental singular)
mamankunawan (instrumental plural)
mamanintin (comitative singular)
mamankunantin (comitative plural)
mamanninnaq (abessive singular)
mamankunannaq (abessive plural)
mamanhina (comparative singular)
mamankunahina (comparative plural)
mamanrayku (causative singular)
mamankunarayku (causative plural)
mamanpaq (benefactive singular)
mamankunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamanpura (associative singular)
mamankunapura (associative plural)
mamaninka (distributive)
mamankunanka (distributive)
mamanlla (exclusive singular)
mamankunalla (exclusive plural)
mamanchik (nominative singular)
mamanchikkuna (nominative plural)
mamanchikta (accusative singular)
mamanchikkunata (accusative plural)
mamanchikman (dative singular)
mamanchikkunaman (dative plural)
mamanchikpa (genitive singular)
mamanchikkunap (genitive plural)
mamanchikpi (locative singular)
mamanchikkunapi (locative plural)
mamanchikkama (singular terminative)
mamanchikkunakama (plural terminative)
mamanchikmanta (ablative singular)
mamanchikkunamanta (ablative plural)
mamanchikwan (instrumental singular)
mamanchikkunawan (instrumental plural)
mamanchiknintin (comitative singular)
mamanchikkunantin (comitative plural)
mamanchikninnaq (abessive singular)
mamanchikkunannaq (abessive plural)
mamanchikhina (comparative singular)
mamanchikkunahina (comparative plural)
mamanchikrayku (causative singular)
mamanchikkunarayku (causative plural)
mamanchikpaq (benefactive singular)
mamanchikkunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamanchikpura (associative singular)
mamanchikkunapura (associative plural)
mamanchikninka (distributive)
mamanchikkunanka (distributive)
mamanchiklla (exclusive singular)
mamanchikkunalla (exclusive plural)
mamayku (nominative singular)
mamaykukuna (nominative plural)
mamaykuta (accusative singular)
mamaykukunata (accusative plural)
mamaykuman (dative singular)
mamaykukunaman (dative plural)
mamaykupa (genitive singular)
mamaykukunap (genitive plural)
mamaykupi (locative singular)
mamaykukunapi (locative plural)
mamaykukama (singular terminative)
mamaykukunakama (plural terminative)
mamaykumanta (ablative singular)
mamaykukunamanta (ablative plural)
mamaykuwan (instrumental singular)
mamaykukunawan (instrumental plural)
mamaykuntin (comitative singular)
mamaykukunantin (comitative plural)
mamaykunnaq (abessive singular)
mamaykukunannaq (abessive plural)
mamaykuhina (comparative singular)
mamaykukunahina (comparative plural)
mamaykurayku (causative singular)
mamaykukunarayku (causative plural)
mamaykupaq (benefactive singular)
mamaykukunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamaykupura (associative singular)
mamaykukunapura (associative plural)
mamaykunka (distributive)
mamaykukunanka (distributive)
mamaykulla (exclusive singular)
mamaykukunalla (exclusive plural)
mamaykichik (nominative singular)
mamaykichikkuna (nominative plural)
mamaykichikta (accusative singular)
mamaykichikkunata (accusative plural)
mamaykichikman (dative singular)
mamaykichikkunaman (dative plural)
mamaykichikpa (genitive singular)
mamaykichikkunap (genitive plural)
mamaykichikpi (locative singular)
mamaykichikkunapi (locative plural)
mamaykichikkama (singular terminative)
mamaykichikkunakama (plural terminative)
mamaykichikmanta (ablative singular)
mamaykichikkunamanta (ablative plural)
mamaykichikwan (instrumental singular)
mamaykichikkunawan (instrumental plural)
mamaykichiknintin (comitative singular)
mamaykichikkunantin (comitative plural)
mamaykichikninnaq (abessive singular)
mamaykichikkunannaq (abessive plural)
mamaykichikhina (comparative singular)
mamaykichikkunahina (comparative plural)
mamaykichikrayku (causative singular)
mamaykichikkunarayku (causative plural)
mamaykichikpaq (benefactive singular)
mamaykichikkunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamaykichikpura (associative singular)
mamaykichikkunapura (associative plural)
mamaykichikninka (distributive)
mamaykichikkunanka (distributive)
mamaykichiklla (exclusive singular)
mamaykichikkunalla (exclusive plural)
mamanku (nominative singular)
mamankukuna (nominative plural)
mamankuta (accusative singular)
mamankukunata (accusative plural)
mamankuman (dative singular)
mamankukunaman (dative plural)
mamankupa (genitive singular)
mamankukunap (genitive plural)
mamankupi (locative singular)
mamankukunapi (locative plural)
mamankukama (singular terminative)
mamankukunakama (plural terminative)
mamankumanta (ablative singular)
mamankukunamanta (ablative plural)
mamankuwan (instrumental singular)
mamankukunawan (instrumental plural)
mamankuntin (comitative singular)
mamankukunantin (comitative plural)
mamankunnaq (abessive singular)
mamankukunannaq (abessive plural)
mamankuhina (comparative singular)
mamankukunahina (comparative plural)
mamankurayku (causative singular)
mamankukunarayku (causative plural)
mamankupaq (benefactive singular)
mamankukunapaq (benefactive plural)
mamankupura (associative singular)
mamankukunapura (associative plural)
mamankunka (distributive)
mamankukunanka (distributive)
mamankulla (exclusive singular)
mamankukunalla (exclusive plural)


mama

māmá (canonical class-1a)
bāmâmá (class-2a plural)


mama

From Latin mamma, from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē).


mama

mȁma (canonical feminine)
ма̏ма (Cyrillic)
mama (nominative singular)
mame (nominative plural)
mame (genitive singular)
mama (genitive plural)
mami (dative singular)
mamama (dative plural)
mamu (accusative singular)
mame (accusative plural)
mamo (singular vocative)
mame (plural vocative)
mami (locative singular)
mamama (locative plural)
mamom (instrumental singular)
mamama (instrumental plural)


mama

mama (nominative singular)
mamy (nominative plural)
mamy (genitive singular)
mam (genitive plural)
mamie (dative singular)
mamōm (dative plural)
mamã (accusative singular)
mamy (accusative plural)
mamōm (instrumental singular)
mamami (instrumental plural)
mamōma (instrumental plural)
mamie (locative singular)
mamach (locative plural)
mamo (singular vocative)
mamy (plural vocative)


mama

sk-noun

mama f (genitive singular mamy, nominative plural mamy, genitive plural mám, declension pattern of žena)

mamy (genitive singular)
mamy (nominative plural)
mám (genitive plural)
žena (declension-pattern-of)
mama (nominative singular)
mamy (nominative plural)
mamy (genitive singular)
mám (genitive plural)
mame (dative singular)
mamám (dative plural)
mamu (accusative singular)
mamy (accusative plural)
mame (locative singular)
mamách (locative plural)
mamou (instrumental singular)
mamami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Slovak mama, from Proto-Slavic *mama, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, a reduplication of *méh₂- - the root of *méh₂tēr (“mother”).


mama

Respectful term of address for an older woman.


mama

mamička (diminutive)
mamimka (diminutive)
mama (nominative singular)
mamje (dual nominative)
mamy (nominative plural)
mamy (genitive singular)
mamow (dual genitive)
mamow (genitive plural)
mamje (dative singular)
mamomaj (dative dual)
mamam (dative plural)
mamu (accusative singular)
mamje (accusative dual)
mamy (accusative plural)
mamu (instrumental singular)
mamomaj (dual instrumental)
mamami (instrumental plural)
mamje (locative singular)
mamomaj (dual locative)
mamach (locative plural)
mama (singular vocative)
mamje (dual vocative)
mamy (plural vocative)


mama

Probably influenced by English mama, may have existed before contact with English though. Possibly a corruption of mọ̀mọ́.

a term of endearment or respect for an older woman or female relative


bear

en-verb

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past bore or (archaic) bare, past participle borne or bore or (see usage notes) born)

bears (present singular third-person)
bearing (participle present)
bore (past)
bare (archaic past)
borne (participle past)
bore (participle past)
born (participle past)
bear (infinitive)

From Middle English beren (“carry, bring forth”), from Old English beran (“to carry, bear, bring”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti, from *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).
Akin to Old High German beran (“carry”), Dutch baren, Norwegian Bokmål bære, Norwegian Nynorsk bera, German gebären, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (bairan), Sanskrit भरति (bharati), Latin ferō, and Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō), Albanian bie (“to bring, to bear”), Russian брать (bratʹ, “to take”), Persian بردن (bordan, “to take, to carry”).

cog

hoz (with the objects gyümölcs and termés)

In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for ninety generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a superbeing. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the duke, she disobeyed and gave birth to a son: Paul, Paul Atreides.

1984, 10:44 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Princess Irulan, →OCLC:

(transitive, ditransitive) To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

This year our apple trees bore a good crop of fruit.

Betwixt two seasons comes th' auspicious air, / This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

(transitive, less commonly intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.


shrew

From Middle English *schrewe, from Old English sċrēawa (“shrew”), from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz (“thin; meagre; frail”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut; shorten; skimp”). Cognates include Old High German scrawaz (“dwarf”), Norwegian skrugg (“dwarf”).

otter shrew

subfamily Potamogalinae in family Tenrecidae

treeshrew

families Tupaiidae and Ptilocercidae in order Scandentia

West Indies shrew

genus †Nesophontes in family Solenodontidae

The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. 'Rogue,' 'old miser,' 'old sneak,' and a great many worse names, she called him.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

His wife was a shrew with warts on her face and she spoke to him sharply when others were present, but Simcha did not complain.

1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz:

(derogatory) An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.


throw

en-verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

throws (present singular third-person)
throwing (participle present)
threw (past)
throwed (nonstandard past)
thrown (participle past)
throwed (nonstandard participle past)
threw (nonstandard participle past)
throw (infinitive)

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”).
Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.

hedh

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

heitellä

repeatedly, continuously and/or indifferently

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick

throw nickels around like manhole covers

throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

trust someone as far as one could throw them

At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.

1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 49:

"They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."

2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:

(transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).


goddess

From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.


era

la-noun

era f (genitive erae, masculine erus); first declension

erae (genitive)
erus (masculine)
era (nominative singular)
erae (nominative plural)
erae (genitive singular)
erārum (genitive plural)
erae (dative singular)
erīs (dative plural)
eram (accusative singular)
erās (accusative plural)
erā (ablative singular)
erīs (ablative plural)
era (singular vocative)
erae (plural vocative)

mistress (of a house, with respect to the servants)


baroness

/ˌbæ.ɹəˈnɛs/

From Middle English baronesse; equivalent to baron + -ess.

A woman holding a baronial title in her own right; a female ruler of a barony.


countess

From Anglo-Norman cuntesse, Old French contesse, from Latin comitessa; equivalent to count + -ess. Doublet of contessa.

Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.

A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.

earless

the wife of an earl, a female holder of an earldom


empress

From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor + -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.

Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne,
As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.


duchess

From Middle English duchesse, from Old French duchesse.


princess

From Middle English princesse, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman princesse, Old French princesse. By surface analysis, prince + -ess.

She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.

1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin:

A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter of a monarch.

And running all with greedie ioyfulnesse / To faire Irena, at her feet did fall, / And her adored with due humblenesse, / As their true Liege and Princesse naturall […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(now archaic) A female ruler or monarch; a queen.

Princess Grace was the Princess of Monaco.

The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality.

принцеса

wife of a prince; female ruler of a principality

בַּת לְמֶלֶכַּה

ḇát̬ ləmélékáh


femme

Antillean Creole: fanm

Guianese Creole: fanm

Haitian Creole: fanm

Karipúna Creole French: fam

Louisiana Creole: fenm, famm

Seychellois Creole: fanm

Inherited from Middle French femme, from Old French fam(m)e, fem(m)e, fenme, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). The Old French pronunciation was [fɛ̃mə], which then became [fãmə] through lowering of nasal vowels, finally [famə] in Middle French through denasalisation before /m/, /n/. Other words in which -e- is pronounced /a/ include couenne, solennel, and the adverbs in -emment.
See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman and Gallo fame; Picard fanme; Bourguignon fonne; Franco-Provençal fèna; Occitan femna; Corsican femina.

inh

souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s’y fie

"[…] un couple qui fonctionne requiert des individus dichotomiques qu’il s’agisse d’un homme et d’une femme ou bien d’une butch et d’une femme", Lilian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century.

2001, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Queer zones: politiques des identités sexuelles, des représentations et des savoirs:

(LGBTQ, rare) Alternative form of fem (“femme, feminine lesbian”) (contrast butch)


prince

From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prīnceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps.
Displaced native Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling; Middle English kinebarn, from Old English cynebearn; Middle English alder, from Old English ealdor; and Middle English drighten, from Old English dryhten.

af

Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.

1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

prins

son or male-line grandson of a reigning monarch


withdrawal

en-noun

withdrawal (countable and uncountable, plural withdrawals)

deposit

antonym(s) of “receiving from someone's care”

alcohol withdrawal syndrome
benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome
withdrawal

/wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/

/wɪθˈdɹɔː(ə)l/

/ˈwɪθˌdɹɔːl/

/wɪðˈdɹɔːɹəl/

/wɪθˈdɹɔːɹəl/

A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.


bi

Cognate with Igala bí (“to give birth to”)

Ọmọ mẹ́rin l'ó bí.


girlfriend

→ Chinese: 女朋友 (calque)

→ Hindi: गर्लफ़्रेंड (garlfreṇḍ)

→ Japanese: ガールフレンド (gārufurendo)

→ Korean: 걸프렌드 (geolpeurendeu)

→ Louisiana Creole: gèlfrènn

desc

→ Russian: гёрлфренд (gjorlfrɛ́nd), гёрлфренд (gjórlfrɛnd)

گَرْل فِرین٘ڈ

→ Urdu: گَرْل فِرین٘ڈ (garl ferenḍ)

/ˈɡɜːlfɹɛnd/

you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth

Marc went to the park with his girlfriend and watched the sunset with her.

I was playing the acoustic guitar and my girlfriend was playing the drums.

Want to pick some flowers, doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.

1966, “The Man Trap”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Paramount Pictures:

A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.

meisie

a female partner in a romantic relationship

Mary always enjoyed hanging out with her girlfriend Jessica.

[…] for the past 45 years, Neri had sat outside with her girlfriends Fotini and Eleni, two school friends who, having grown old in their company, Neri loved dearly.

2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 135:

(somewhat dated) A female friend of a woman or girl.

amie (close friend; best friend: ma meilleure amie)

copine f (acquaintance, friend; rarely used by adult men; "ma meilleure copine" is used by children for "best friend")

[Hanque:] girlfriend - how'r we doing?
[Doug:] hi hanque, i'd like a capuccino and some lobster bisque..
[Caption:] (friendliness with the waitstaff is a good sign)

1994, Eric Orner, The Seven Deadly Sins of Love (reprinted in The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2015), p. 32)

A term of address for a female friend or among gay men.


Dutchwoman

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) A female white Afrikaner.


harem

harem (nominative singular)
haremy (nominative plural)
haremu (genitive singular)
haremów (genitive plural)
haremowi (dative singular)
haremom (dative plural)
harem (accusative singular)
haremy (accusative plural)
haremem (instrumental singular)
haremami (instrumental plural)
haremie (locative singular)
haremach (locative plural)
haremie (singular vocative)
haremy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram). Doublet of haram.

bor+

harem (group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male)


go

Borrowed from Bambara go, itself from French gosse.


女神

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂən³⁵/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɐn²¹/

/ŋ̍³¹ sɨn¹¹/

/nˡy³³⁻²¹ siŋ⁵³/

/lu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sin²³/

/lu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/

/li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sin²³/

/li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/

/nɯŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ siŋ⁵⁵/

/n̠ʲy²² zən⁴⁴/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂən³⁵/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɐn²¹/

/ŋ̍³¹ sɨn¹¹/

/nˡy³³⁻²¹ siŋ⁵³/

/lu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sin²³/

/lu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/

/li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sin²³/

/li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²⁴/

/nɯŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ siŋ⁵⁵/

/n̠ʲy²² zən⁴⁴/

民主女神


女神

Compound of 女 (me, “female”) + 神 (kami, “god”). The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

1999 December 16, “逆(ぎゃく)転(てん)の女(め)神(がみ) [Goddess of Reversal]”, in ＥＸ [ＥＸ], Konami:

A goddess who grants reversal power and protects the weak with her holy power.

Seinaru chikara de yowakimono o mamori, gyakuten no chikara o ataeru megami.

聖なる力で弱き者を守り、逆転の力を与える女神。

2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “最(さい)終(しゅう)話(わ) それぞれの道(みち) [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 352:

西方の女神エキドナ


女神

女神 (canonical)
me no kami (romanization)

From 女 (me, “woman”) + の (no, attributive particle) + 神 (kami, “god”), literally “female god”. Akin to the derivation of megami above.


女神

ja-noun

女(おんな)神(がみ) • (onnagami) ^(←をんながみ (wonnagami)?)

女神 (canonical)
onnagami (romanization)
wonnagami (romanization)
をんながみ (hiragana historical)

[õ̞nːa̠ɡa̠mʲi]

By surface analysis, 女 (onna, “woman”) + 神 (kami, “god”), whereby The kami changes to gami as an instance of rendaku (連濁); may separately be a shift from ominagami above, as the omina component, meaning “woman”, separately shifted to onna in general (see etymology of 女(おんな) (onna). However, the development of the “goddess” meaning is more difficult to explain through this analysis, so a plain compound may be the more likely.
Akin to the formations of megami and me no kami above.


女神

ja-noun

女(じょ)神(しん) • (joshin) ^(←ぢよしん (dyosin)?)

女神 (canonical)
joshin (romanization)
dyosin (romanization)
ぢよしん (hiragana historical)

/djosin/ → /d͡ʑoɕin/
From Middle Chinese 女神 (MC nrjoX zyin).


ore

From an Proto-Yoruboid root for "female," compare with Igala óre (“female animal”), Itsekiri ore (“mother”).


偣

(idiomatic) indecent intention of a woman