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…
woman · wife · alternative form of fem (“femme, feminine lesbian”) (contrast butch)
çekim: çoğul femmes
eş: blanc bonnet, bonne-femme, créature, criature, dame, fille d’Ève
köken: Inherited from Middle French femme, from Old French fam(m)e, fem(m)e, fenme, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). The Old French pronunciation was [fɛ̃mə], which then became [fãmə] through lowering of nasal vowels, finally [famə] in Middle French through denasalisation…
aile: bonne femme, ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut, femme au foyer, femme au volant, mort au tournant, femme cartée, femme d'affaires, femme de chambre, femme de charge, femme de Dieu, femme de lettres
Ce fut le soir du mariage à l'église que le comte Muffat se présenta dans la chambre de sa femme, où il n'était pas entré depuis deux ans.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish mugier, from Latin mulierem. Compare Portuguese mulher.
aile: amujerado, amujeramiento, mala mujer, mujer cis, mujer de gobierno, mujer de guerra, mujer de la calle, mujer de letras, mujer de punto, mujer del partido
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾnwk'), [Manichaean needed] (bʾnwg /bānūg/), from Old Persian *bānūka-. Akin to Old Armenian բանուկան (banukan), an Iranian borrowing.
köken: From Byzantine Greek κορίτσι (korítsi) (also form κορίτσιν (korítsin), diminutive of Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) + -ίτσι (-ítsi), form of -ίτσιν (-ítsin). Cognate with Mariupol Greek кури́ц (kuríc).
a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid. · a girl, a young woman · an unmarried woman (regardless of age)
çekim: çoğul pigor · tamlayan pigas
köken: From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, “noblewoman, beauty”). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.
maid (female servant) · girl · a girlchild (term of endearment)
çekim: çoğul piiat · tamlayan piian
köken: Uncertain. The word may be a borrowing from Old Norse píka (“girl, lass, virgin”) (compare Swedish piga (“maid, female servant; female employee on a farm”)) or the Norse term might be from Finnic (compare Estonian piiga (“girl”), Karelian piika (“maid; girl (especially Virgin Mary)”), Votic piikõ (“maid, girl”)). Has sometimes been compared with Turkic words (Chuvash пике (pik̬e, “(young) lady,…
girl (a female child or adolescent) · girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age) · girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)
çekim: çoğul piger · tamlayan piges
köken: Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).
köken: Nominalized adjective, perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *banuyos,masculine derived from Proto-Celtic *ban-, whence Welsh banon (“maiden queen”), Old Breton ban-doiuis (“goddess”), Old Irish ban-chú (“female dog”); akin to Cornish benow (“feminine, female”). Further related to Old Welsh ben (“woman”), from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Doublet of banw.