From waiter + -ess .
waitress (plural waitresses , masculine waiter )
a waitress waitressing
A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant , café , or similar.
a waitress in a cocktail bar.
2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP ] State of the Union [1] , spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):I ask everybody… A waitress , flight attendant… …someone I’m shitting next to on the plane… “You know what my biggest hobby is?” Puking.
female waiter
Albanian: kameriere (sq) f , kamariere f
Arabic: نَادِلَة f ( nādila ) , جَرْسُونَة f ( garsōna )
Egyptian Arabic: جرسونة f ( garsōna )
Armenian: մատուցողուհի (hy) ( matucʻoġuhi )
Belarusian: афіцыя́нтка f ( aficyjántka ) , ке́льнерка f ( kjélʹnjerka )
Bulgarian: ке́лнерка f ( kélnerka )
Burmese: စားပွဲထိုး (my) ( ca:pwai:htui: ) ( any gender )
Catalan: cambrera (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女 服務生 / 女 服务生 ( nǚ fúwùshēng ) , ( any gender ) 服務員 / 服务员 (zh) ( fúwùyuán )
Czech: číšnice (cs) f , servírka (cs) f
Danish: servitrice c
Dutch: serveerster (nl)
Esperanto: kelnerino , tabloservistino
Estonian: ettekandja
Finnish: tarjoilija (fi) , tarjoilijatar (fi)
French: serveuse (fr) f
Galician: camareira f
Georgian: ოფიციანტი ( opicianṭi ) ( any gender )
German: Kellnerin (de) f
Greek: σερβιτόρα (el) f ( servitóra )
Hebrew: מֶלְצַרִית f ( meltsarít )
Hindi: वेट्रेस f ( veṭres )
Hungarian: pincérnő (hu)
Icelandic: þjónn (is) , gengilbeina
Ido: tabloservistino
Ingrian: taritsija
Irish: banfhreastalaí m , cailín freastail m
Italian: cameriera (it) f
Japanese: ウェイトレス (ja) ( weitoresu ) , ウエイトレス (ja) ( ueitoresu )
Kabuverdianu: enpregada
Kazakh: даяршы әйел ( daärşy äiel ) , даяршы қыз ( daärşy qyz )
Khmer: អ្នកបំរើ ( nĕək bɑmraə ) , ស្រីបំរើ ( srəybɑmrəə )
Korean: 웨이트리스 (ko) ( weiteuriseu )
Kyrgyz: официантка ( ofitsiantka )
Lao: ສາວເສີບ ( sāo sœ̄p )
Latin: administra f
Latvian: viesmīle f , oficiante f
Lithuanian: padavėja f
Macedonian: келнерка f ( kelnerka ) , конобарка f ( konobarka )
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: servitrise (no) m or f , serveringsdame f , servitør (no) m
Persian: پیشخدمت (fa) ( pišxedmat ) ( any gender )
Polish: kelnerka (pl) f
Portuguese: empregada (pt) f ( Portugal ) , garçonete (pt) f ( Brazil )
Romanian: chelneriță (ro) f , ospătăriță (ro) f
Russian: официа́нтка (ru) f ( oficiántka ) , ке́льнерша (ru) f ( kélʹnerša ) ( rare )
Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann-frithealaidh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: коноба̀рица f , услужитељка f , ке̏лнерица f
Roman: konobàrica (sh) f , uslužiteljka f , kȅlnerica (sh) f
Slovak: servírka f , čašníčka f
Slovene: natakarica f
Spanish: camarera (es) f , mesera (es) f
Swedish: servitris (sv) c
Tajik: пешхизмат ( pešxizmat ) ( any gender )
Thai: สาวเสิร์ฟ ( sǎao-sə̀əp )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: garson (tr) , garson kız
Ukrainian: офіціа́нтка f ( oficiántka ) , ке́льнерка f ( kélʹnerka )
Urdu: ویٹریس f ( veṭres )
Uzbek: ofitsiantka (uz)
Vietnamese: chị hầu bàn
Volapük: jibötan (vo)
Yiddish: קעלנערין f ( kelnerin ) , קעלנערשע f ( kelnershe )
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
waitress (third-person singular simple present waitresses , present participle waitressing , simple past and past participle waitressed )
( stative ) To work as a waitress.
2007 , Thomas Quealy, M + M :The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.