Etymology
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From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.
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- IPA(key): /pəˈlɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
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polygyny (countable and uncountable, plural polygynies)
- The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.
1883, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, page 685:We may infer that in most cases where polygyny exists, monogamy co-exists to a greater extent, and in all other cases to a considerable extent.
- The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.
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plurality of wives at the same time
- Arabic: تَعَدُّد اَلزَّوْجَات m (taʕaddud az-zawjāt)
- Armenian: բազմակնություն (hy) (bazmaknutʻyun)
- Belarusian: многажо́нства n (mnohažónstva)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一夫多妻 (zh) (yīfūduōqī), 一夫多妻制 (zh) (yīfūduōqīzhì)
- Esperanto: poligamio
- Finnish: monivaimoisuus, polygynia (fi)
- French: polygynie (fr) f
- Georgian: მრავალცოლიანობა (mravalcolianoba), პოლიგინია (ṗoliginia)
- German: Polygynie (de) f
- Hindi: बहुपत्नीत्व (bahupatnītva)
- Hungarian: többnejűség (hu)
- Irish: polaigíneas m, il-leannántacht f
- Japanese: 一夫多妻 (ja) (ippu-tasai)
- Macedonian: многуже́нство n (mnogužénstvo), полигинија f (poliginija)
- Maori: tāne moe tokomaha
- Polish: poligynia (pl) f
- Portuguese: poliginia (pt) f
- Russian: многожёнство (ru) n (mnogožónstvo), полигини́я (ru) f (poliginíja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: многоже́нство n, вишеженство n, полигѝнија f
- Roman: mnogožénstvo (sh) n, višeženstvo (sh) n, poligìnija (sh) f
- Spanish: poliginia (es) f
- Swedish: månggifte (sv) n
- Telugu: బహుభార్యాత్వము (te) (bahubhāryātvamu)
- Ukrainian: багатоже́нство (uk) n (bahatožénstvo)
- Welsh: amlwreiciaeth f
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