housewife

Etymology
From, , , equivalent to ; a of , which it was long-distinguished with and displaced due to gradual negative connotation (see Online Etymology Dictionary entry). Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * Person


 * Bag

Noun
(see notes below about plurals)


 * 1)  A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
 * 2) * 2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride
 * "en"
 * 1) * 2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride
 * "en"
 * "en"

- Mr Torture sells pain / To the housewives in Spain / He knows just what they crave / Mr Torture


 * 1)  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
 * 2)  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.
 * 3)  A worthless woman; a hussy.
 * 1)  A worthless woman; a hussy.
 * 1)  A worthless woman; a hussy.
 * 1)  A worthless woman; a hussy.
 * 1)  A worthless woman; a hussy.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَبَّة مَنْزِل, رَبَّة بَيْت, رَبَّة أُسْرَة
 * Armenian: տնային տնտեսուհի,
 * Azerbaijani: evdar qadın
 * Bashkir: хужабикә
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ха́тняя гаспады́ня
 * Bengali:, , ঘরণী
 * Bulgarian:, къ́щница
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 家庭婦女,
 * Chukchi: гыпиԓьын
 * Crimean Tatar: ev bikesi
 * Czech: hospodyňka, žena v domácnosti
 * Danish: husmor
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: domestrino
 * Estonian: koduperenaine
 * Faroese: matmóðir, húsfrú, húsfrúgv
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, , mère au foyer,
 * Georgian: დიასახლისი
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Huusfrau
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:, suri rumah
 * Irish: bean tí
 * Italian:, donna di casa, padrona di casa,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: үй шаруасындағы әйел
 * Khmer: ស្រីមេផ្ទះ, គេហសាមិនី
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کابان
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: үй ээси, үй кожойкеси
 * Lao: ແມ່ເຮືອນ
 * Latin: domiseda
 * Latvian: mājsaimniece
 * Lithuanian: šeimininkė
 * Macedonian: домаќинка
 * Malay: suri rumah
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: гэрийн эзэгтэй
 * Norman: femme dé mênage
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: husmor
 * Pashto: ماتو
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian: خانُمِ خانِه, زَنِ خانِه‌دار, خانِه‌دار ,
 * Plautdietsch: Husfru
 * Polish:, pani domu
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bean-taighe
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дома̀ћица, ку̏ћаница
 * Roman: domàćica, kȕćanica
 * Slovak: gazdiná
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ama de casa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: maybahay
 * Tajik: соҳибхоназан, соҳибаи хона, зани хонадор
 * Tatar: хуҗабикә
 * Thai: แม่บ้าน
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: öý hojalykçy, öy bikesi,
 * Ukrainian: домогоспода́рка
 * Urdu: گَھر والی
 * Uyghur: ئائىلە ئايالى, ئايال خوجايىن, خوجايىن ئايال
 * Uzbek: uy bekasi
 * Vietnamese: bà nội trợ
 * Volapük: domaläd
 * Welsh: gwraig tŷ, gwraig y tŷ
 * Yiddish: באַלעבאָסטע


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: käsityölaukku
 * French: trousse de couture,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: kotak jahit
 * Portuguese: caixa de costura


 * Telugu: