a woman of one's parents' age · the wife of an older man · ma'am, madam
eş: 아줌마, 아지매
köken: First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 丫子彌 (Yale: *àcómí). In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 아ᄌᆞ〮미〮 (Yale: àcómí).
Mrs (title of a married woman) · madam, ma'am (form of address for a married woman, a ranking female individual, or a not young female stranger) · lady (a respectful word for a not young woman)
köken: Inherited from Malay puan, from clipping of perempuan (“female human being; woman”). In sense of a polite form of address for a woman or lady, mostly replaced by nyonya.
lady in a wealthy family with servants · Mrs., ma'am
çekim: çoğul zonja
köken: From *džotnja, from Proto-Albanian *dzwāptnjā, from earlier *w(i)tspátnjā, from Proto-Indo-European *wiḱ-pót-nih₂ (“clan matriarch”), from *wiḱpótis (compare Lithuanian viešpatni (“lady”)), compound of *weyḱ- (“clan, kindred”) (compare Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house (clan)”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬚 (viθ, “royal court”)) and *pótnih₂ (compare Ancient Greek πότνια (pótnia)), feminine of *pótis (“master”).…