womanly

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

woman +‎ -ly

AdjectiveEdit

womanly (comparative womanlier, superlative womanliest)

Having the characteristics of a woman; feminine, female.

AntonymsEdit

masculine, male

Derived termsEdit

womanliness

TranslationsEdit

having the characteristics of a woman

Arabic: نسوي (nisawī)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女子氣, 女子气 (nǚzǐqì)
Czech: ženský (cs)
Esperanto: virina
French: féminin (fr)
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), femeiesc (ro)
Russian: женственный (ru) (žénstvennyj), женский (ru) (žénskij) (feminine), женоподобный (ru) (ženopodóbnyj) (womanlike)
Scottish Gaelic: banail
Swedish: kvinnlig (sv)

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Last modified on 10 December 2013, at 19:04