concubine

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Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.

concubine (plural concubines)

A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
1. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
2. (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.

a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife

Arabic: سُرِّيَة‎ f (surriya)
Basque: ohaide (eu)
Belarusian: нало́жніца f (nalóžnica)
Bulgarian: нало́жница f (nalóžnica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 妾 (zh) (qiè), 姨太太 (zh) (yítàitài), 妃 (zh) (fēi) (imperial concubine), 側室 (zh), 侧室 (zh) (cèshì) (archaic)
Czech: konkubína (cs) f
Danish: konkubine c
Finnish: avovaimo (fi)
French: concubine (fr) f
German: Konkubine (de) f
Greek: παλλακίδα (el) f (pallakída)
Hungarian: ágyas (hu)
Indonesian: selir (id)
Japanese: 妾 (ja) (めかけ, mekake, しょう, shō), めかけ (ja) (mekake), 側室 (そくしつ, sokushitsu)
Korean: 첩 (ko) (cheop) (妾 (ko))
Latin: paelex f, concubīna f, amāsia f (Mediaeval), amīca f, coniūnx c, pallaca f