a bitch, a female dog: a female dog or other canine · a despicable woman; a bitch
çekim: çoğul teven
eş: vrouwtjeshond
köken: From Middle Dutch teve, from Old Dutch *tiva, from Proto-West Germanic *tibā, perhaps from the root of Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Cognate to Old English tife and probably German Zibbe.
female equivalent of basior (“bitch, she-wolf”) (female wolf)
çekim: çoğul basiory · tamlayan basiory
eş: wilczyca, wadera
köken: Etymology tree Polish basior Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀ Proto-Slavic *-a Old Polish -a Polish -a Polish basiora From basior + -a.
köken: From nő (“woman”) + -s + -t + -n (diminutive suffixes). For the cluster -s + -t, compare nyest (“marten”); for -t + -n, compare isten (“god, deity”). For the semantic shift ‘woman’ > ‘female’, compare Latin fēmina (“woman”) > fēmella (“girl, young woman”).
köken: From lupus (“wolf”) + -a (feminine suffix). The sense “prostitute” is either a comparison of the prostitutes' predation on men to the wolf's rapacity, as also in Isidore's (often fanciful) opinion, or a reference to the she-wolf's supposed uncleanliness and promiscuity (often culturally conflated), paralleled in English bitch.