womanly

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English womanly, wommanly, wommanlich, wummonlich, wommanlych, equivalent to 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
• Finnish: naisellinen (fi)
• French: féminin (fr)
• Georgian: ქალური (kaluri), დედაკაცური (dedaḳacuri)
• German: weiblich (de), fraulich (de)
• Greek: γυναικείος (el) (gynaikeíos)
• Hungarian: nőies (hu)
• Irish: banúil

  Middle Irish: banamail

• Japanese: 女らしい (おんならしい, onnarashii)
• 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
• Spanish: femenino (es)
• Swedish: kvinnlig (sv)
• Turkish: kadınsı (tr)
• Yakut: дьахтардыы (caxtardıı)

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Middle EnglishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

womanly

1. Alternative form of wommanly

ReferencesEdit

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