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 Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾnwk'), [Manichaean needed] (bʾnwg /bānūg/), from Old Persian *bānūka-. Akin to Old Armenian բանուկան (banukan), an Iranian borrowing.
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).
daughter · virgin, maiden · little girl, young lady
köken: ⟨woto₂me₁⟩ → /wotome/ → /otome/ From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Compound of おと (oto, cognate with Old Japanese verb 復つ otsu, “to become young”) + 女 (me, “girl, female”). Contrasts with 男 (otoko, “man”, original meaning of “boy”). See also 娘 (musume, “daughter”), 姫 (hime, “princess”).
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-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.
aile: naisellinen, naiseton, naisinen, naismainen, naikkonen, naiseus, naisisto, naisuus, hyvät naiset ja herrat, naisistaa
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.