womanly

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• womonly, womynly (feminist spellings; rare; see usage notes at woman)

EtymologyEdit

woman +‎ -ly

AdjectiveEdit

womanly ‎(comparative womanlier, superlative womanliest)

1. Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.

AntonymsEdit

• masculine, male

Derived termsEdit

• womanliness

TranslationsEdit

having the characteristics of a woman

• Arabic: نِسَوِيّ ‎(nisawiyy)
• Aromanian: muljirescu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女子氣, 女子气 ‎(nǚzǐqì)

• Czech: ženský (cs)
• Esperanto: virina
• French: féminin (fr)
• Georgian: ქალური ‎(kaluri), დედაკაცური ‎(dedaḳacuri)
• German: weiblich (de), fraulich
• Greek: γυναικείος (el) ‎(gynaikeíos)
• Hungarian: nőies (hu)
• Irish: banúil
• Japanese: 女らしい ‎(おんならしい, onnarashii)

• Latvian: sievišķīgs, sievišķs, sieviešu (lv)
• Manx: benoil
• Old Irish: banamail
• Pashto: ښځينه (ps) ‎(ẍëźina)
• Persian: زنانه (fa) ‎(zanâne)
• Polish: kobiecy (pl)
• Portuguese: feminino (pt)
• Romanian: feminin (ro) m, femeiesc (ro) m
• Russian: же́нственный (ru) ‎(žénstvennyj), же́нский (ru) ‎(žénskij) (feminine), женоподо́бный (ru) ‎(ženopodóbnyj) (womanlike)
• Scottish Gaelic: banail
• Swedish: kvinnlig (sv)
• Yakut: дьахтардыы ‎(caxtardıı)