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[ English

Rank of this word in thee English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
enough	quite	brought	#231: woman	want	home	whose

[ Etymology

Old English wīfmann, from wīf (‘adult female’, Modern English wife) + mann (‘human being’).

[ Pronunciation

RP & US: IPA: /ˈwʊmən/, SAMPA: /"wUm@n/
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Hyphenation: wom·an

[ Noun

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Singular
woman

Plural
women

woman (plural women)

An adult female human being.

Afrikaans: vrou
Ainu: メノコ (menoko)
Albanian: grua sq(sq), femër sq(sq)
Apache:

Chiricahua: ’isdzán

Jicarilla: ch’eekéé

Western Apache: isdzánhń (-’isdzą’)
Arabic: امرأة (’ímra’a) f., مرأة (már’a) f., نساء pl.
Aragonese: muller f.
Azeri: qadın
Basque: andre, emakume
Belarusian: жанчына (žančyna) f.
Bosnian: žena bs(bs) f.
Breton: maouez f. -ed pl.
Bulgarian: жена bg(bg) (žena) f.
CJKV Characters: 女
Catalan: dona f. ^
Chinese: 妇女 (fùnǚ), 女人 (nǚrén)

Teochew: za1bhou2nang5, ze1nion5
Croatian: žena hr(hr) f.
Czech: žena cs(cs) f.
Danish: kvinde da(da) c.
Dutch: vrouw nl(nl) f.
Esperanto: virino eo(eo)
Estonian: naine et(et)
Faroese: kona fo(fo) f., kvinna fo(fo) f.
Fijian: marama (^)
Finnish: nainen fi(fi)
French: femme fr(fr) f.
Georgian: ქალი (kali)
German: Frau f. ^
Greek: γυναίκα el(el) (ɣinéka) f.
Guaraní: kuña
Hebrew: אישה (išá) f.
Hindi: औरत (aurat) f., स्त्री
Hungarian: nő hu(hu)
Icelandic: kona is(is) f., kvenmaður is(is) m.
Ido: muliero
Indonesian: perempuan id(id), wanita id(id)

Javanese: wadon

Sundanese: istri (polite)
Interlingua: femina
Inuktitut: ᐊᕐᓇᖅ
Irish: bean ga(ga) f.
Italian: donna it(it) f.

Japanese: 女性 (じょせい, josei), 女の人 (おんなのひと, onná no hitó)
Kazakh: қатын (qatın)
Korean: 계집 (gyejip), 여자 (女子, yeoja)
Kurdish: jin ku(ku), pîrek ku(ku), afret ku(ku), kilfet ku(ku), ژن ku(ku), ئافره‌ت ku(ku)
Ladino mujer lad(lad) f.
Latin: femina la(la) f., mulier la(la) f.
Latvian: sieviete f.
Lithuanian: moteris lt(lt) f.
Lojban: ninmu
Malay: wanita ms(ms)
Malayalam: സ്ത്രീ (sthree), പെണ്ണ് (peNNu), വനിത (vanitha), മഹിള (mahiLa)
Maltese: mara mt(mt)
Manx: ben f.
Marathi: बाइको
Mi'kmaq: ebit
Navajo: asdzáán, asdzą́ą́
Norwegian: kvinne no(no) c., dame no(no) c.
Novial: fema
Old English: wīf ang(ang), wīfmann ang(ang), ides ang(ang), frēo ang(ang), cwēn ang(ang), cwene ang(ang)
Persian: زَن (zæn)
Polish: kobieta pl(pl) f.
Portuguese: mulher pt(pt) f.
Powhatan: krenepo
Romanian: femeie ro(ro) f., muiere ro(ro) f.
Russian: женщина ru(ru) (žénščina) f.
Scottish Gaelic: bean f. (gen. sg. & nom. pl. mnathan, gen. pl. bean)
Serbian:

Cyrillic: жена f.

Roman: žena f.
Setswana: mosadi
Slovak: žena sk(sk) f.
Slovene: ženska sl(sl) f., žena sl(sl) f.
Spanish: mujer es(es) f.
Swedish: kvinna sv(sv) c.
Telugu: ఆడది (aaDadi), స్త్రీ (stree), మహిళ (mahiLa)
Tetum: feto
Tok Pisin: meri
Tupinambá: kunhã
Turkish: kadın tr(tr)
Tz'utujil: ixoq
Ukrainian: жінка uk(uk) (žínka) f.
Urdu: عورت ('aurat) f.
Welsh: benyw cy(cy) f., dynes cy(cy) f.
West Frisian: frou
Yiddish: froy f.

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[ Pronunciation

[ Noun

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