concubine

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EnglishEdit

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn/

NounEdit

concubine (plural concubines)

1. 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.

Derived termsEdit

• concubinage

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))
• 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 (pl) 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
• Swahili: suria
• Tagalog: kalaguyo, kabit (pejorative, derogatory)
• Thai: (royal) นางสนม (naang sà-nŏm)
• Ukrainian: нало́жниця f (nalóžnycja)
• Vietnamese: vợ lẻ, (dated) nàng hầu (vi)

slave-girl — see slave-girl

mistress — see mistress

See alsoEdit

• harem
• polygamy
• co-wife
• seraglio

ReferencesEdit

• Random House Unabridged Dictionary

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DutchEdit

NounEdit

concubine f (plural concubines or concubinen)

1. concubine

   Synonyms: bijvrouw, bijwijf, bijzit, bijzitster

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ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

concubine f

1. plural of concubina

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

concubīne

1. vocative singular of concubīnus