мисис

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English missus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmisis]

Noun

ми́сис • (mísis) f

1. missus (polite title referring to a married woman)

Usage notes

This term is used especially in works of literature with settings in the Anglosphere; not generally to describe married women, whose form of address is typically госпожа́ (gospožá).

References

• “мисис”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мисис”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010