barmaid

English

Etymology

From bar +‎ maid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ).meɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

barmaid (plural barmaids)

1. A woman who serves in a bar. [from 18th c.]
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.

Translations

woman who serves in a bar

• Albanian: banakiere (sq) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吧女 (zh) (bānǚ)

• Czech: barmanka (cs) f
• Esperanto: trinkejistino
• Finnish: tarjoilijatar (fi) (literally “waitress”); tarjoilija (fi) (literally “waiter, waitress”) (gender-neutral)
• French: barmaid (fr) f
• Greek: σερβιτόρα (el) f (servitóra)
• Latin: cōpa f
• Macedonian: шанкерка f (šankerka)
• Polish: barmanka (pl)
• Romanian: barmaniță (ro) f, cârciumăreasă (ro) f, cârciumăriță (ro) f
• Russian: барме́нша (ru) f (barménša), буфе́тчица (ru) f (bufétčica), де́вушка за сто́йкой f (dévuška za stójkoj)

See also

• barman

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English barmaid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.mɛjd/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

barmaid f (plural barmaids)

1. barmaid

Further reading

• “barmaid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.