empress

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Etymology 1

emperor +‎ -ess

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛmpɹəs/, X-SAMPA: /"Empr\@s/

Noun

empress (plural empresses)

1. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
2. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler (e.g. Persian shah).

Related terms

• emperor

Translations

female monarch of an empire

• Arabic: إمبراطورة (ar) ('imbiraTuura) f
• Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi) 
• Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皇后 (cmn) (huánghòu), 女皇 (cmn) (nǚhuáng)

• Czech: císařovna (cs) f
• Danish: kejserinde (da) c
• Dutch: keizerin (nl) f
• Esperanto: imperiestrino (eo)
• Finnish: keisarinna (fi)
• French: impératrice (fr) f
• German: Kaiserin (de) f
• Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f (aftokráteira)
• Hungarian: császárnő (hu)
• Irish: banimpire (ga) m
• Japanese: 女帝 (ja) (じょてい, jotei)

• Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii)
• Latvian: imperatore (lv) f, ķeizariene (lv) f
• Lithuanian: imperatorė (lt) f
• Macedonian: царица (mk) (cárica) f, императорка (mk) (imperátorka) f
• Malay: maharani (ms)
• Manx: ard-venrein (gv) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: keiserinne (no)

  Nynorsk: keisarinne (nn)

• Portuguese: imperatriz (pt) f
• Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f
• Russian: императрица (ru) (imperatríca) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-ìmpire (gd) f
• Slovene: cesarica (sl) f
• Spanish: emperatriz (es) f
• Turkish: imparatoriçe (tr) f
• West Frisian: keizerinne (fy) c

wife or widow of an emperor

• Arabic: إمبراطورة (ar) ('imbraaTuura) f, زوجة إمبراطور (ar) (zawjat 'imbraaTuur) f
• Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi) 
• Bengali: সম্রাজ্ঞী (bn)
• Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皇后 (cmn) (huánghòu), 女皇 (cmn) (nǚhuáng)

• Czech: císařovna (cs) f
• Danish: kejserinde (da) c, (widow of an emperor:) enkekejserinde (da) c
• Dutch: keizerin (nl) f
• Esperanto: imperiestrino (eo)
• Finnish: keisarinna (fi)
• German: Kaiserin (de) f
• Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f (aftokráteira)
• Hungarian: császárné (hu)
• Irish: banimpire (ga) m
• Japanese: 皇后 (ja) (こうごう, kōgō)

• Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii)
• Latvian: imperatrise (lv) f, ķeizariene (lv) f
• Lithuanian: imperatorienė (lt) f
• Macedonian: царица (mk) (сárica) f, императорка (mk) (imperátorka) f
• Malay: maharani (ms)
• Manx: ard-venrein (gv) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: keiserinne (no)

  Nynorsk: keisarinne (nn)

• Portuguese: imperatriz (pt) f
• Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f
• Russian: императрица (ru) (imperatríca) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-ìmpire (gd) f
• Slovene: cesarica (sl) f
• Spanish: emperatriz (es) f
• West Frisian: keizerinne (fy) c

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: carica f, imperatorka f
• Finnish: šaahitar (fi)
• Italian: imperatrice f
• Korean: 황후 (hwanghu)
• Latin: imperatrix
• Marathi: महाराणी (mahārānī)

• Serbo-Croatian:

• Cyrillic: царица f, императорка f
• Latin: carica f, imperatorka f

• Slovak: cisárovná f, cárovná f (of Russia, Bulgaria)
• Turkish: imparatoriçe

Etymology 2

Verb

empress (third-person singular simple present empresses, present participle empressing, simple past and past participle empressed)

1. Alternative form of impress.