"frau" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Catalan]

IPA: [ˈfɾaw] [Balearic, Central, Valencian] Forms: fraus [plural]
Rhymes: -aw Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fraus. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|ca|la|fraus|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin fraus, {{bor+|ca|la|fraus}} Borrowed from Latin fraus Head templates: {{ca-noun|m}} frau m (plural fraus)
  1. fraud Tags: masculine Related terms: fraudulent
    Sense id: en-frau-ca-noun-8CuV7QsA Categories (other): Catalan entries with incorrect language header

Noun [English]

IPA: /fɹaʊ/ Forms: fraus [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊ Etymology: Borrowed from German Frau. Doublet of frow and vrouw. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Frau}} German Frau, {{doublet|en|frow|vrouw}} Doublet of frow and vrouw Head templates: {{en-noun}} frau (plural fraus)
  1. A woman, especially a German woman. Derived forms: house frau Translations (a woman, especially a German woman): фра́у (fráu) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-frau-en-noun-3xfl3quv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Pronoun [German]

IPA: /fraʊ̯/ Audio: de-Frau.ogg
Rhymes: -aʊ̯ Etymology: From Frau by making the first letter lower-case. Coined as an alternative to the male-sounding word man (“one”), which is cognate and homophonous with Mann (“adult male”). First used by feminists when writing about women, then occasionally used in general contexts. Compare the pronoun mensch. Compare also the use of she vs he in English to refer to someone whose gender is unknown. Etymology templates: {{m|de|Frau}} Frau, {{m|de|man||one}} man (“one”), {{m|de|Mann||adult male}} Mann (“adult male”), {{m|de|mensch}} mensch Head templates: {{head|de|pronoun|cat2=indefinite pronouns}} frau
  1. (indefinite, informal, slang, rare, often humorous) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun) Tags: humorous, indefinite, informal, often, rare, slang
    Sense id: en-frau-de-pron-8ooQdrBV Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German indefinite pronouns, German pronouns

Noun [Norwegian Nynorsk]

IPA: /frœʊ̯ː/
Rhymes: -œʊ̯ː Etymology: From Old Norse frauð. Etymology templates: {{inh|nn|non|frauð}} Old Norse frauð Inflection templates: {{nn-noun-infl|1903a=–|1903b=–|1903c=–|1903d=–|1903note=3|1938a=ei frau|1938b=fraua 􂀿fraui􂁀|1938c=frauer|1938d=frauene|1959a=ein, ei frau|1959b=frauen, fraua 􂀿fraui􂁀|1959c=frauar, frauer|1959d=frauane, frauene|2012a=ein, ei frau|2012b=frauen, fraua|2012c=frauar, frauer|2012d=frauane, frauene|Aasen1=ei Frau|Aasen2=Fraui|Aasen3=Frauer|Aasen4=Frauerna|Aasenote=2|note2=Aasen lists Frau as an alternative form to <i class="Latn mention" lang="nn">Fraud</i>.|note3=The official glossary only lists the form <i class="Latn mention" lang="nn">fraud</i>.}} Forms: frauen [definite, singular], fraua [definite, singular], frauer [indefinite, plural], frauar [indefinite, plural], frauene [definite, plural], frauane [definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Historical inflection of frau, Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²Aasen lists Frau as an alternative form to Fraud. ³The official glossary only lists the form fraud.
  1. (chiefly uncountable, dialectal) foam Tags: dialectal, feminine, masculine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-frau-nn-noun-jMLNeXhb
  2. (chiefly uncountable, dialectal, Trøndelag) dung; manure Tags: dialectal, feminine, masculine, uncountable
    Sense id: en-frau-nn-noun-5~l9TYnP Categories (other): Trøndersk Norwegian
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fraud Related terms: frode

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        },
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          "ref": "2007 January 12, Grace Glueck, “Fun With Studio Crafts: When the Traditional Gets Quirky”, in New York Times",
          "text": "It presents Dürer’s mother as a sharp-nosed, world-weary German frau looking wryly out at life from under a decorous wimple.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A woman, especially a German woman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "German",
          "German"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɹaʊ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fráu",
      "sense": "a woman, especially a German woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фра́у"
    }
  ],
  "word": "frau"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Frau"
      },
      "expansion": "Frau",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "man",
        "3": "",
        "4": "one"
      },
      "expansion": "man (“one”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Mann",
        "3": "",
        "4": "adult male"
      },
      "expansion": "Mann (“adult male”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "mensch"
      },
      "expansion": "mensch",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Frau by making the first letter lower-case. Coined as an alternative to the male-sounding word man (“one”), which is cognate and homophonous with Mann (“adult male”). First used by feminists when writing about women, then occasionally used in general contexts. Compare the pronoun mensch. Compare also the use of she vs he in English to refer to someone whose gender is unknown.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "cat2": "indefinite pronouns"
      },
      "expansion": "frau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German 1-syllable words",
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German humorous terms",
        "German indefinite pronouns",
        "German informal terms",
        "German lemmas",
        "German pronouns",
        "German slang",
        "German terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "German terms with audio links",
        "German terms with homophones",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "German terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations",
        "Rhymes:German/aʊ̯",
        "Rhymes:German/aʊ̯/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1998, Matthias Matussek, Die vaterlose Gesellschaft: überfällige Anmerkungen zum Geschlechterkampf, page 47",
          "text": "Sie ist selbst dann noch beschissen, wenn frau sie beendet hat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2003, Ulrike Schlicht, Selbsterweiterungsprozesse alleinlebender Frauen, page 218",
          "text": "Wenn frau sich kennt, braucht sie nicht vor sich wegzulaufen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Aslı Sevindim, Candlelight Döner. Geschichten über meine deutsch-türkische Familie, Berlin: Ullstein, page 220",
          "text": "[…] ich ziehe es heraus und halte es in die Höhe … Mein Gott, es ist ein Still-BH. Meine Augen kleben förmlich daran. Ein Büstenhalter, den frau vorne aufmachen kann …\n[…] I pull it out and hold it into the height … Dear God, it is a nursing bra. My eyes were like they cleft to it. A brassière the woman can open in the front …",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2008, Gaye Suse Kromer, Obszöne Lust oder etablierte Unterhaltung?, page 163",
          "text": "Erst mal sechs Jahre alleine und frau muss auch zusehen, dass sie sich gerne hat. Das liebe ich, mit mir selbst zu sein und mich zu mögen und mich zu streicheln.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "… and when one gets older?",
          "ref": "2008, L. Schäfer, Gemeindepädagogisches Forum 2008; Abschlussimpuls, archived from the original on 2016-09-15",
          "text": "… und wenn man / frau älter wird?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "indefinite",
          "indefinite"
        ],
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "one",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "they",
          "they"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(indefinite, informal, slang, rare, often humorous) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "indefinite",
        "informal",
        "often",
        "rare",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fraʊ̯/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Frau"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ̯"
    },
    {
      "audio": "de-Frau.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b3/De-Frau.ogg/De-Frau.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/De-Frau.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "frau"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "non",
        "3": "frauð"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse frauð",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse frauð.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "frauen",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fraua",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frauer",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frauar",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frauene",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "frauane",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nn-noun-infl\n",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Historical inflection of frau",
      "source": "inflection"
    },
    {
      "form": "Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official",
      "source": "inflection"
    },
    {
      "form": "but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²Aasen lists Frau as an alternative form to Fraud. ³The official glossary only lists the form fraud.",
      "source": "inflection"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1903a": "–",
        "1903b": "–",
        "1903c": "–",
        "1903d": "–",
        "1903note": "3",
        "1938a": "ei frau",
        "1938b": "fraua 􂀿fraui􂁀",
        "1938c": "frauer",
        "1938d": "frauene",
        "1959a": "ein, ei frau",
        "1959b": "frauen, fraua 􂀿fraui􂁀",
        "1959c": "frauar, frauer",
        "1959d": "frauane, frauene",
        "2012a": "ein, ei frau",
        "2012b": "frauen, fraua",
        "2012c": "frauar, frauer",
        "2012d": "frauane, frauene",
        "Aasen1": "ei Frau",
        "Aasen2": "Fraui",
        "Aasen3": "Frauer",
        "Aasen4": "Frauerna",
        "Aasenote": "2",
        "note2": "Aasen lists Frau as an alternative form to <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nn\">Fraud</i>.",
        "note3": "The official glossary only lists the form <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"nn\">fraud</i>."
      },
      "name": "nn-noun-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "frode"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "foam"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly uncountable, dialectal) foam"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns",
        "Trøndersk Norwegian"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dung; manure"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly uncountable, dialectal, Trøndelag) dung; manure"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/frœʊ̯ː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-œʊ̯ː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fraud"
    }
  ],
  "word": "frau"
}

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