lioness

English[edit]

A lioness.

lion +‎ -ess.

lioness (plural lionesses, masculine lion)

A female lion (animal).
Synonym: (idiomatic) queen of beasts
A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
- 1877, The Contemporary Review (volume 29, page 1123)
  The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.
(Britain, obsolete, Oxford University slang) A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
- 1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford (page 305)
  When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]
- 1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford (page 271)
  "Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.

female lion

Afrikaans: leeuin
Albanian:
Arbëresh: lefe
Arabic: لَبُؤَة‎ f (labuʾa), لَبْوَة‎ f (labwa)
Egyptian Arabic: لبوة‎ f (labwa)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܐܪܝܘܬܐ‎ f (ʾaryōṯā)

Jewish Aramaic: אריותא‎ f (ʾaryōṯā)
Armenian: էգ առյուծ (ēg aṙyuc)
Asturian: lleona (ast) f
Belarusian: ільві́ца f (ilʹvíca), льві́ца f (lʹvíca)
Bengali: সিংহী (śiṅhi)
Bulgarian: лъви́ца f (lǎvíca)
Burmese: ခြင်္သေ့မ (my) (hkrangse.ma.)
Catalan: lleona (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 母狮 (mǔshī), 母狮子 (mǔshīzi)
Coptic: ⲗⲁⲃⲟⲓ f (laboi)
Corsican: lionessa
Czech: lvice (cs) f
Danish: hunløve c, løvinde (da) c
Dutch: leeuwin (nl) f
Egyptian:

(mꜣt f)
Esperanto: leonino (eo)
Finnish: naarasleijona
French: lionne (fr) f
Galician: leoa f
German: Löwin (de) f
Greek: λιονταρίνα (el) f (liontarína), λέαινα (el) f (léaina)
Gujarati: સિંહિયો (sĩhiyo)
Hebrew: לביאה‎ f (l'vi'á)
Hindi: शेरनी (śernī)
Hungarian: oroszlánhölgy, nőstény oroszlán, nőstényoroszlán f
Hunsrik: Leevin f
Icelandic: ljónynja
Ido: leonino (io)
Indonesian: singa betina
Interlingua: leonessa
Italian: leonessa (it) f
Japanese: 雌ライオン (めすらいおん, mesu-raion), 母獅 (むし, mushi)
Kannada: ಸಿಂಹಿಣಿ (kn) (siṃhiṇi)
Kazakh: қаншыр (qanşır)

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