"geisha" meaning in English

See geisha in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈɡeɪ.ʃə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-geisha.wav Forms: geisha [plural], geishas [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃə Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”) + 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|-}} Japanese, {{ja-r|芸者|げいしゃ|gloss=artisan}} 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), {{der|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|藝|art, craft}} 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”), {{ltc-l|者|-er}} 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”) Head templates: {{en-noun|geisha|s}} geisha (plural geisha or geishas)
  1. A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy. Wikipedia link: geisha Categories (topical): Stock characters Categories (place): Japan Synonyms: geisha girl, geiko, maiko, geisya Derived forms: geisha ball, geisha girl Translations (a Japanese entertainer): geishë [feminine] (Albanian), غَيْشَا (ḡayšā) [feminine] (Arabic), գեյշա (geyša) (Armenian), geyşa (Azerbaijani), ге́йша (hjéjša) [feminine] (Belarusian), গিশা (giśa) (Bengali), ге́йша (géjša) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ဂေးရှား (ge:hra:) (Burmese), 藝妓 /艺妓 (yìjì) (Chinese Mandarin), 藝伎 /艺伎 (yìjì) (Chinese Mandarin), gejša [feminine] (Czech), geisha [common-gender] (Danish), geisha [feminine] (Dutch), gejŝo (Esperanto), geiša (Estonian), geisha (Finnish), geiša (Finnish), geisha [feminine] (French), გეიშა (geiša) (Georgian), Geisha [feminine] (German), γκέισα (gkéisa) [feminine] (Greek), גֵּיְשָׁה (géysha) [feminine] (Hebrew), गीशा (gīśā) [feminine] (Hindi), gésa (Hungarian), geisja [feminine] (Icelandic), geisha (Interlingua), geisha [feminine] (Italian), 芸者 (geisha) (alt: げいしゃ) (Japanese), 芸妓 (geigi) (alt: げいぎ) (Japanese), 芸子 (geiko) (english: young) (alt: げいこ) (Japanese), гейша (geişa) (Kazakh), 게이샤 (geisya) (Korean), 게이기 (geigi) (Korean), гейша (geyşa) (Kyrgyz), geiša [feminine] (Latvian), geiša [feminine] (Lithuanian), ге́јша (géjša) [feminine] (Macedonian), geisya (Malay), ݢيئيشا [Jawi] (Malay), гейша (gejša) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), geisha [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), geisha [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), گیشا (geyšâ) (Persian), gejsza [feminine] (Polish), gueixa [feminine] (Portuguese), gheișă [feminine] (Romanian), ге́йша (géjša) [feminine] (Russian), ге̑јша [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gȇjša [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gejša [feminine] (Slovak), gejša [feminine] (Slovene), geisha [common-gender] (Swedish), гейша (geyša) (Tajik), เกอิชา (gee-ì-chaa) (Thai), geyşa (Turkish), ге́йша (héjša) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ґе́йша (géjša) [feminine] (Ukrainian), گیشا (gīśā) [feminine] (Urdu), geysha (Uzbek), geisha (Vietnamese), nghệ giả (alt: 藝者) (Vietnamese)
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          "roman": "geyša",
          "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
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          "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
          "word": "geyşa"
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          "roman": "hjéjša",
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          "word": "গিশা"
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          "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
          "word": "ဂေးရှား"
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          "roman": "yìjì",
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "geisya",
          "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
          "word": "게이샤"
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      ],
      "word": "ґе́йша"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "gīśā",
      "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "گیشا"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
      "word": "geysha"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
      "word": "geisha"
    },
    {
      "alt": "藝者",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a Japanese entertainer",
      "word": "nghệ giả"
    }
  ],
  "word": "geisha"
}

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