abbess

Etymology
From, from (French ), from  or , feminine of ,.

Noun

 * 1)  A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.
 * 2)  A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.
 * 1)  A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients.

Translations

 * Arabic: رَئِيسِيَّة دَيْر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: abadesa
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: абаты́са
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: игуменка
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: abatino
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French: abeesse
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აბატისა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: Abbatessa
 * Irish: ban-ab, máthairab
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 尼僧院長
 * Latin: abbātissa
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: опатица, игуменија
 * Manx: ard-chaillagh, ard-chaillagh ghoo, ard-ven reill, ben abb, moir abb
 * Norman: abbêsse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: abbedisse
 * Occitan:
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: abadessa
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, настоя́тельница (монастыря́),
 * Scottish Gaelic: ban-aba
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: abadesa
 * Turkish: başrahibe
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ,/
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: