goddess

See also Goddess

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gŏd'ĕs, IPA: /ˈɡɒdɛs/, X-SAMPA: /"gQdes/

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• Hyphenation: god‧dess

Etymology

god +‎ -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579).

Noun

goddess (plural goddesses)

1. (religion) A female deity.
2. (figuratively) A human female honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.

Derived terms

• goddess-ship

Hypernyms

• deity, divinity, god
• woman

Translations

female deity

• Afrikaans: godin (af)
• Albanian: perëndeshë (sq) f
• Arabic: إلاهة (ar) (ʾilāha) f
• Armenian: աստվածուհի (hy) (astvacuhi)
• Asturian: diosa (ast) f
• Azeri: ilahə (az)
• Belarusian: багіня (be) (bahínja) f
• Bulgarian: богиня (bg) (bogínja) f
• Catalan: deessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女神 (cmn) (nǚshén)

• Czech: bohyně (cs) f
• Danish: gudinde (da)
• Dutch: godin (nl)
• Esperanto: diino (eo)
• Estonian: jumalanna (et)
• Finnish: jumalatar (fi)
• French: déesse (fr) f
• Galician: deusa (gl) f
• Georgian: ქალღმერთი (ka) (k'alḡmert'i)
• German: Göttin (de) f
• Greek: θεά (el) (theá) f
• Hawaiian: akua wahine
• Hungarian: istennő (hu)
• Icelandic: gyðja (is) f
• Indonesian: Dewi (id)
• Interlingua: dea (ia)
• Irish: bandia (ga) m

• Italian: diva (it) f
• Japanese: 女神 (ja) (めがみ, megami)
• Khmer: ព្រះម៉ែ (km) (preah maeh), ទេវី (km) (de vi)
• Korean: 여신 (ko) (yeosin) (女神 (ko))
• Latin: dea (la) f
• Latvian: dieviete (lv) f
• Lithuanian: deivė (lt) f
• Macedonian: божица (mk) (bóžica) f
• Malay: dewi (ms)
• Norwegian: gudinne (no) m
• Occitan: dieusa (oc) f
• Persian: الهه (fa) (elâhe), ایزدبانو (fa) (izadbânu)
• Polish: bogini (pl) f
• Portuguese: deusa (pt) f
• Romanian: zeiță (ro) f
• Russian: богиня (ru) (bogínja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-dia (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богиња (sh) f, божица (sh) f

  Latin: boginja (sh) f, božica (sh) f

• Slovak: bohyňa (sk) f
• Slovene: boginja (sl) f
• Spanish: diosa (es) f
• Swedish: gudinna (sv) c
• Turkish: tanrıça (tr) f, ilahe (tr) f
• Ukrainian: богиня (uk) (bohýnja) f
• Vietnamese: nữ thần (vi) (女神 (vi))
• Welsh: duwes (cy) f

adored or idealized woman

• Arabic: معبودة (ar) (maʿbuda) f
• Catalan: deessa (ca) f
• Czech: bohyně (cs) f
• Dutch: schoonheid (nl)
• Finnish: jumalatar (fi)
• French: déesse (fr) f
• Galician: deusa (gl) f
• Greek: θεά (el) (theá) f
• Hungarian: istennő (hu)
• Indonesian: Dewi (id)

• Italian: diva (it) f
• Khmer: ទេពធីតា (km) (dep thi dar)
• Russian: богиня (ru) (bogínja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-dia (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богиња (sh) f

  Latin: boginja (sh) f

• Swedish: gudinna (sv) c
• Turkish: tanrıça (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: dewi
• Italian: dea (it) f
• Icelandic: gyðja (is) f
• Hungarian: istennő f
• Latin: dea (la) f
• Latvian: dieviete f
• Norwegian (bokmål): gudinne m/f

• Norwegian (nynorsk): gudinne f
• Novial: dea
• Portuguese: deusa f
• Romanian: zeiță (ro) f
• Slovak: bohyňa f
• Slovene: boginja (sl) f
• Spanish: diosa (es) f
• Sumerian: ilati

See also

• heaven