policewoman

English

A Swedish policewoman

Etymology

From police +‎ -woman.

Pronunciation

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Noun

policewoman (plural policewomen)

2. (law enforcement) A female police officer.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:police officer

Hypernyms

• police officer

Coordinate terms

• policeman

Translations

a female police officer

• Afrikaans: polisievrou
• Arabic: شُرْطِيَّة f (šurṭiyya)
• Belarusian: паліцэ́йская f (palicéjskaja), міліцыя́нтка f (milicyjántka), паліцыя́нтка f (palicyjántka)
• Bulgarian: полица́йка f (policájka)
• Burmese: ရဲမေ (my) (rai:me)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女警官 (nǚ jǐngguān)

• Czech: policistka (cs) f
• Danish: politikvinde c
• Dutch: politievrouw (nl) f, politieagente (nl) f, agente (nl) f
• Esperanto: policistino
• Ewe: kpovitɔnyɔnu
• Finnish: naispoliisi
• French: policière (fr) f
• German: Polizistin (de) f, Polizeibeamtin (de) f, Polizeifrau f (Switzerland)
• Greek: αστυνομικίνα (el) f (astynomikína)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹטֶרֶת f (shotéret)
• Hungarian: rendőrnő (hu)
• Icelandic: lögreglukona f
• Irish: bangharda m
• Italian: poliziotta (it) f
• Japanese: 女性警官 (じょせいけいかん, josei keikan), 婦警 (ja) (ふけい, fukei)
• Korean: 여자 경찰관 (yeoja gyeongchalgwan), 녀자 경찰관 (nyeoja gyeongchalgwan) (North Korea)
• Latin: denuntiatrix f
• Lithuanian: policininkė f
• Luxembourgish: Polizistin f
• Macedonian: полицајка f (policajka), (obs.) милицајка f (milicajka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: politikvinne m or f

  Nynorsk: politikvinne f

• Polish: policjantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: polícia (pt) m or f (Portugal), policial (pt) m or f (Brazil)
• Romanian: polițistă (ro) f, femeie-polițist f (rare)
• Russian: полице́йская (ru) f (policéjskaja), же́нщина-полице́йский f (žénščina-policéjskij), сотру́дница поли́ции f (sotrúdnica polícii)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полѝца̄јка f

  Roman: polìcājka (sh) f

• Slovak: policajtka f
• Slovene: policistka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: policistka f

• Sotho: lepolesa
• Spanish: policía (es) m or f, agente (es) m or f, agente de policía m or f
• Swedish: poliskvinna (sv) c
• Thai: ตำรวจหญิง (tamruat ying)
• Turkish: polis (tr), kadın polis
• Ukrainian: поліція́нтка f (policijántka), поліце́йська f (policéjsʹka), поліца́йка f (policájka)
• Vietnamese: nữ cảnh sát
• Volapük: jipoldan (vo)
• Yiddish: פּאָליציסטין f (politsistin), פּאָליציאַנטקע f (politsyantke)