woman (adult female human) · wife (married woman, especially in relation to her spouse) · a title of courtesy, equivalent to Mrs/Ms, which has nearly replaced Fräulein in the function of Miss
köken: From Middle High German vrouwe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern…
köken: From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Doublet of dama. Cognate with Sicilian donna.
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dwhtl /duxtar/), oblique case of [Book Pahlavi needed] (dwht' /duxt/), from Old Persian *duxçī-, from Proto-Iranian *dúgdā. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit दुहिता (duhitā), Northern Kurdish dot, Pashto لور (lur), Mazanderani دتر (deter), Baluchi دہت (duht).
slattern, hussy, floozie, loose girl, an easy-to-get girl, chick · a fellow female musician
çekim: çoğul civilər · tamlayan civinin
köken: Possibly from a form related to Romani ʒuvli (“woman, lady”) found in the regional Romani variety, i.e. from Domari džuwir (“woman”), as per Nishanyan's latest consideration. Compare also Northern Kurdish cewr, dialectal Turkish cıvır (“woman”).
Sözlü növbə çatdı Elmir, Asəfə. Bomba civiyə yaxınlaşıb bir dəfə
köken: From Byzantine Greek γυναίκα (gunaíka), from Ancient Greek γυνή, γυναῖκα (gunḗ, gunaîka). Cognate with Tsakonian γουναίκα (gounaíka) and Cappadocian Greek ναίκα (naíka).
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 겨〯집 (Yale: kyěcìp). A compound of Old Korean 在 (*KYE-, “to be at, to stay”), whence also 계시— (gyesi-) + 집 (jip, “house, home”). Literally "one who is at home". See also 집사람 (jipsaram), 안사람 (ansaram) with the same semantic shift. The word is not attested in the twelfth-century Jilin leishi or in any Old Korean sources,…
köken: Etymology tree Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra)bor. Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat)bor. Hindi औरत Borrowed from Classical Persian عَوْرَت (awrat, “woman, wife”), from Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “awrah, pudendum”). First attested in c. 1420 as Old Hindi औरत (aurata) / عَورَت ('vrt).
köken: From Proto-Italic *moljes, of uncertain origin; it has been proposed that it might be akin to mulgere and therefore mean “the milk-giver”. Others propose it might derive from mollior, comparative of mollis (“soft, tender”). Contamination within either of these two terms can be possible. The former is from Isidore's Etymologies: "Mulier vero a mollitie, tanquam mollier, detracta littera vel…
köken: From Old Danish quinnæ, kvinnæ, from Old Norse kvenna, the genitive plural indefinite of kona (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Related to English queen via Proto-Germanic *kwēniz.
From Proto-Finnic *nainën, derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric *näxe-; nai- + -nen. Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (output c. 1543–1552), but vaimo was the more common word for “woman” in the oldest literary Finnish texts.