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The Russian word for woman is
женщина

zhenshchina



woman

Russian Definition


woman
     1. женщина
     2. женственность, женское начало
     3. служанка, уборщица; прислуга женского пола
     4. жена; подружка, любовница



Translations for woman and their definitions

женщина
     1. n. woman


жена ©
     1. n. wife
     2. n. woman


баба
     1. n. (disdainful) woman, countrywoman
           Все ба́бы — ду́ры; все мужики́ — сво́лочи — Every woman is stupid, every man a bastard (Russian folklore)
     2. n. grandma, granny (short for бабушка)
           Ма́ма, а где ба́ба? — Mom, where’s grandma?
     3. n. (informal or archaic) old woman (short for бабушка)
           Жи́ли-бы́ли дед да ба́ба — There once lived an old man and his old woman.
     4. n. woman, female, broad
           Кто э́та ба́ба? — Who's that broad?
     5. n. peasant’s wife, peasant woman
     6. n. (weak man) milksop, old woman
     7. n. (technical) ram (of pile driver)
     8. n. (technical) drop weight
     9. n. baba (tall, cylindrical cake), bundt cake, gugelhupf
           ро́мовая ба́ба — rum baba, rum cake
           сне́жная ба́ба — snowman
           ка́менная ба́ба — primitive stone statue


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