See eunuch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nAncient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)\nProto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.\nProto-Hellenic *hékʰō\nAncient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)\nAncient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.\nLatin eunūchusder.\nMiddle English eunuk\nEnglish eunuch\nFrom Middle English eunuk, from Middle French eunuque, from Latin eunūchus, from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos), from εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, keep”). Originally probably used to refer to a bed chamber attendant.",
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"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “2/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:",
"text": "Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men.",
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{
"word": "gelding"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuk"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "ḵaṣiyy",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَصِيّ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"lang_code": "ar",
"roman": "maḵṣiyy",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "مَخْصِيّ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"lang_code": "hy",
"roman": "nerkʻini",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ներքինի"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "xədim"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "jéwnux",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "е́ўнух"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "skapjéc",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скапе́ц"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "kastrát",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кастра́т"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "ljahčánjec",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лягча́нец"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "skopéc",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скопе́ц"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuc"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "yānrén",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "閹人 /阉人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "gōnggong",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "公公"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "huànguān",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "宦官"
},
{
"code": "cop",
"lang": "Coptic",
"lang_code": "cop",
"roman": "siour",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ⲥⲓⲟⲩⲣ"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kastrát"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kleštěnec"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "eunuk"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "castraat"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "kastrito"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "eunukki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ruuna"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuque"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "castrat"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Eunuch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kastrat"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "evnoúchos",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ευνούχος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"roman": "eunoûkhos",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "εὐνοῦχος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"roman": "spádōn",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σπάδων"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "sarís",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "סָרִיס"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "hijṛā",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "हिजड़ा"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "geldingur"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"lang_code": "io",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "eunuko"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coillteán"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "eunuco"
},
{
"code": "jje",
"lang": "Jeju",
"lang_code": "jje",
"roman": "goje",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "고제"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"lang_code": "kk",
"roman": "ätek",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "әтек"
},
{
"alt": "鼓子",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "goja",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "고자"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spadō"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuchus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "thlasias"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"lang_code": "lt",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kastrãtas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "evnuh",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "евнух"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "skopec",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скопец"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"lang_code": "ms",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "sida-sida"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "unaka"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "tajgan",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "тайган"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "evnukk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "evnukk"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuc"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "belisnod"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"lang_code": "fa",
"roman": "xwâje",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "خواجه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kastrat"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rzezaniec"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trzebieniec"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuco"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "jévnux",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "е́внух"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "skopéc",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скопе́ц"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "kastrát",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кастра́т"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"lang_code": "sa",
"roman": "akṣata",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "अक्षत"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuco"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "eunuck"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "bating"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"lang_code": "tl",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "eunuko"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ชันที"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"lang_code": "bo",
"roman": "nyug rum",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ཉུག་རུམ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "hadım"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "husyesiz"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "jévnux",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "є́внух"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "skopécʹ",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "скопе́ць"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "kastrát",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кастра́т"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"lang_code": "vo",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "homen"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"lang_code": "wa",
"sense": "castrated man",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "unuke"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "òkóbó"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ìwẹ̀fà"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"sense": "castrated man",
"word": "ọyà"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"lang_code": "hy",
"roman": "nerkʻini",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "ներքինի"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "hərəmağası"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "jéwnux",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "е́ўнух"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "évnuh",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "е́внух"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "yānrén",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "閹人 /阉人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "tàijiàn",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "太監 /太监"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "huànguān",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "宦官"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "sìrén",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "寺人"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kastrát"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "eŭnuko"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "eunukki"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eunuque"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Eunuch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "evnoúchos",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ευνούχος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"roman": "sarís",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "סָרִיס"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "hijṛā",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "हिजड़ा"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "eunuch"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "eunuco"
},
{
"alt": "かんがん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "kangan",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "宦官"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"lang_code": "kk",
"roman": "ätek",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "әтек"
},
{
"alt": "宦官",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "hwan'gwan",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "환관"
},
{
"alt": "內侍",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "naesi",
"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "내시"
},
{
"code": "lt",
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"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
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"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "th",
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"word": "ขันที"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"sense": "such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state",
"word": "haremağası"
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"code": "uk",
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"word": "de-sex"
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