comfort woman

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Noun

comfort woman (plural comfort women)

1. (idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II.

Translations

forced prostitute

• Arabic: إِمْرَأَة مِتْعَة f (ʔimraʔa(t) mitʕa), نِسَاء مِتْعَة f pl (nisāʔ mitʕa) (plural)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慰安婦／慰安妇 (zh) (wèi'ānfù), 慰安妇 (zh) (wèi'ānfù)

• Esperanto: komfortulino
• Finnish: lohtunainen
• French: femme de réconfort (fr) f
• German: Trostfrau f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: wanita penghibur (id)
• Japanese: 慰安婦 (ja) (いあんふ, ianfu), 従軍慰安婦 (じゅうぐんいあんふ)
• Korean: 위안부 (ko) (wianbu) (慰安婦 (ko)), 일본군 성노예 (ilbon'gun seongnoye) (日本軍性奴隸 (日本 軍 性 奴隸))
• Polish: kobieta do towarzystwa f
• Portuguese: mulher de conforto f
• Romanian: femeie de reconfortare f
• Russian: же́нщина для комфо́рта f (žénščina dlja komfórta)

See also

• comfort girl
• Thesaurus:prostitute