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EtymologyEdit
Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.
PronunciationEdit
concubine (plural concubines)
- A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
- A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
- (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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))
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- Latin: paelex f, concubīna f, amāsia f (Mediaeval), amīca f, coniūnx c, pallaca f
- Macedonian: наложница f (naložnica)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konkubine m, f
- Nynorsk: konkubine f
- Polish: nałożnica f, konkubina (pl) f
- Portuguese: concubina (pt) f, amásia (pt) f, barregã (pt) f
- Russian: нало́жница (ru) f (nalóžnica), (kept woman) содержа́нка (ru) f (soderžánka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: конкубина f
- Roman: konkubina (sh) f
- Slovak: konkubína f
- Spanish: concubina (es) f
- Tagalog: kaagulo
- Thai: (royal) นางสนม (naang sà-nŏm)
- Ukrainian: нало́жниця f (nalóžnycja)
- Vietnamese: vợ lẻ, (dated) nàng hầu (vi)
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ReferencesEdit
- Random House Unabridged Dictionary
PronunciationEdit
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concubine f
- plural of concubina
