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Etymology
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From Middle English womanly , wommanly , wommanlich , wummonlich , wommanlych , equivalent to woman + -ly .
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : /ˈwʊmənli/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Hyphenation: wom‧an‧ly
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womanly (comparative womanlier , superlative womanliest )
Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine .
1938 , Norman Lindsay , Age of Consent , 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith , published 1962 , →OCLC , page 149 :"What I mean, a woman who doesn't go in for booze and sport and cigarettes. Man gets sick of these tough flappers. Give me a womanly woman every time. As I said before, I could see at a glance that you were a thoroughly womanly woman."
( rare ) Female .
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Translations
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having the characteristics of a woman
Arabic: نِسَوِيّ ( nisawiyy )
Aromanian: muljirescu
Belarusian: жано́чы ( žanóčy ) , жано́цкі ( žanócki )
Bulgarian: же́нствен (bg) ( žénstven ) , же́нски ( žénski )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女子氣 / 女子气 ( nǚzǐqì )
Czech: ženský (cs)
Danish: kvindelig (da)
Esperanto: virina (eo)
Finnish: naisellinen (fi)
French: féminin (fr)
Georgian: ქალური ( kaluri ) , დედაკაცური ( dedaḳacuri )
German: weiblich (de) , fraulich (de)
Greek: γυναικείος (el) ( gynaikeíos )
Hungarian: nőies (hu)
Indonesian: betina (id)
Irish: banúil
Middle Irish: banamail
Italian: femminile (it) , femmineo (it) m , muliebre (it) , donnesco m , femminino m
Japanese: 女らしい ( おんならしい , onnarashii)
Korean: 여자답다 ( yeojadapda ) , 녀자답다 ( nyeojadapda ) ( North Korea )
Latin: muliebris (la)
Latvian: sievišķīgs , sievišķs , sieviešu (lv)
Macedonian: женствен ( ženstven ) , женски ( ženski )
Manx: benoil
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvinnelig (no)
Nynorsk: kvinneleg
Old English: wīflīċ
Pashto: ښځينه (ps) ( ẍëźina )
Persian: زنانه (fa) ( zanâne )
Polish: kobiecy (pl) , żeński (pl) , babi (pl)
Portuguese: feminino (pt)
Romanian: feminin (ro) , femeiesc (ro) , muieresc (ro) ( popular )
Russian: же́нственный (ru) ( žénstvennyj ) , же́нский (ru) ( žénskij ) ( feminine ) , женоподо́бный (ru) ( ženopodóbnyj ) ( womanlike ) , ба́бий (ru) ( bábij ) ( pejorative )
Scottish Gaelic: banail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жѐнскӣ
Roman: žènskī (sh)
Slovak: ženský (sk)
Slovene: ženski (sl)
Spanish: femenino (es) , mujeril (es) , femenil , femíneo (es) m , feminoide , amujerado m , adamado (es) m , ahembrado (es) m , afeminado (es) m
Swedish: kvinnlig (sv)
Tajik: занона (tg) ( zanona )
Turkish: kadınsı (tr)
Ukrainian: жіно́чий (uk) ( žinóčyj ) , жіно́чний ( žinóčnyj ) , жіно́цький ( žinócʹkyj ) , жінкоподі́бний ( žinkopodíbnyj ) ( womanlike )
Yakut: дьахтардыы ( jaqtardıı )
womanly (comparative more womanly , superlative most womanly )
In the manner of a woman.
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