womanly

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle English womanly, wommanly, wommanlich, wummonlich, wommanlych, equivalent to woman +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊmənli/
• Hyphenation: wom‧an‧ly

Adjective

womanly (comparative womanlier, superlative womanliest)

1. Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.
2. (rare) Female.

Antonyms

• masculine, male, manly

Derived terms

• womanliness

Translations

having the characteristics of a woman

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

  Mandarin: 女子氣, 女子气 (nǚzǐqì)

• Czech: ženský (cs)
• Danish: kvindelig (da)
• Esperanto: virina
• 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 m, muliebre (it), donnesco m, femminino m
• Japanese: 女らしい (おんならしい, onnarashii)
• Latin: muliebris (la)
• Latvian: sievišķīgs, sievišķs, sieviešu
• Manx: benoil
• Pashto: ښځينه‎ (ps) (ẍëźina)
• Persian: زنانه‎ (fa) (zanâne)
• Polish: kobiecy (pl)
• Portuguese: feminino (pt)
• Romanian: feminin (ro), femeiesc (ro), muieresc (ro) (popular)
• Russian: же́нственный (ru) (žénstvennyj), же́нский (ru) (žénskij) (feminine), женоподо́бный (ru) (ženopodóbnyj) (womanlike)
• Scottish Gaelic: banail
• Slovak: ženský (sk)
• Spanish: femenino (es), mujeril (es), femenil, femíneo (es) m
• Swedish: kvinnlig (sv)
• Turkish: kadınsı (tr)
• Yakut: дьахтардыы (caxtardıı)

Adverb

womanly (comparative more womanly, superlative most womanly)

1. In the manner of a woman.

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Middle English

Adjective

womanly

1. Alternative form of wommanly

References

• “wommanli (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.