"handmaid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-handmaid.wav [Southern-England] Forms: handmaids [plural]
Rhymes: -ændmeɪd Etymology: 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". Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|handemayde|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English handemayde, {{inh+|en|enm|handemayde}} Inherited from Middle English handemayde, {{m|enm|hand-maide}} hand-maide, {{m|enm|handmaide}} handmaide, {{m|enm|handmayd}} handmayd, {{m|enm|hand mayde}} hand mayde, {{m|enm|hand-mayde}} hand-mayde, {{m|enm|haundmaid}} haundmaid, {{m|enm|hondemayde}} hondemayde, {{m|enm|hondmaide}} hondmaide, {{m|enm|hond-mayde}} hond-mayde, {{surf|+com+|en|hand|maid}} By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid Head templates: {{en-noun}} handmaid (plural handmaids)
  1. (now historical) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Female people, Occupations, Slavery Translations (maid that waits at hand): աղախին (aġaxin) (Armenian), 女婢 (lí-pī) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 查某囝 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), dienstmaagd (Dutch), palvelijatar (Finnish), Dienerin [feminine] (German), Zofe [feminine] (German), bansclábhaí [masculine] (Irish), pedisequa [feminine] (Latin), þēowen [feminine] (Old English), wīln [feminine] (Old English), empregada [feminine] (Portuguese), donzela [feminine] (Portuguese), ban-òglach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), služkinja [feminine] (Slovene), azafata [feminine] (Spanish), దాసి (dāsi) [feminine] (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-handmaid-en-noun-gQFvIyI3 Disambiguation of Female people: 89 11 Disambiguation of Occupations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Slavery: 66 34 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'maid that waits at hand': 99 1
  2. A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.
    Sense id: en-handmaid-en-noun-Mvrjf7pO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: handmaiden, handmayd [obsolete] Related terms: wait on someone hand and foot

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      "word": "azafata"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "dāsi",
      "sense": "maid that waits at hand",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "దాసి"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "handmaiden"
  ],
  "word": "handmaid"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": cha-bó͘-kiáⁿ vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "handmaid"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "handmaid",
  "trace": ""
}

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