feminism

Etymology
From circa 1837, ultimately from, from. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being feminine; femininity.
 * 2) A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
 * 1) A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

Translations

 * Albanian: feminizëm
 * Arabic: حَرَكَة حُقُوق الْمَرْأَة, أُنْثَوِيَّة, نِسْوِيَّة, فِيمِينِيزْم
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: feminismu
 * Azerbaijani: feminizm
 * Belarusian: феміні́зм, фэміні́зм
 * Bengali: নারীবাদ
 * Breton: benelouriezh
 * Bulgarian: фемини́зъм
 * Burmese: အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 女權擴張論
 * Czech:
 * Danish: feminisme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფემინიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: नारीवाद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: femínismi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: feimineachas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 女権拡張論
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 여성주의(女性主義)
 * Kyrgyz: феминизм
 * Latin: feminismus
 * Latvian: feminisms
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: фемини́зам
 * Malay: faham kewanitaan, faham feminis, feminisme
 * Manx: feminaght
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: феминизм
 * Mongolian: ᠹᠧᠮᠢᠨᠢᠰᠮ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: feminisme,
 * Nynorsk: feminisme
 * Occitan: feminisme
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: boireann-dhligheachas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: феминѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: feminizmus
 * Slovene: feminizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ufeministi
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: феминизм
 * Thai: สตรีนิยม
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: feminizm
 * Ukrainian: феміні́зм
 * Urdu: نِسوانِیَّت, تَحرِیک نِسوانِیَّت, نِسوانِیَّت کی تَحرِیک, نسانیت
 * Uyghur: فېمىنىزم
 * Uzbek: feminizm
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa nam nữ bình quyền (主義男女平權), chủ nghỉa nư quyền (主義女權)
 * Welsh: ffeministiaeth
 * Yiddish: פֿעמיניזם
 * Yoruba: ìṣègbèfábo

Etymology
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