princess

See also: Princess

English

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman princesse, Middle French princesse, corresponding to prince +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪnˈsɛs/, /ˈpɹɪnsɛs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪnsɛs/, /ˈpɹɪnsɪs/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

princess ‎(plural princesses, masculine prince)

1. A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter. [from 14th c.]
   • 1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

     She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.

2. A woman or girl who excels in a given field or class. [from 14th c.]
3. (now archaic) A female ruler or monarch; a queen. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:

     And running all with greedie ioyfulnesse / To faire Irena, at her feet did fall, / And her adored with due humblenesse, / As their true Liege and Princesse naturall [...].

4. The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality. [from 15th c.]

   Princess Grace was the Princess of Monaco.

5. A young girl; used as a term of endearment. [from 18th c.]
6. (derogatory, chiefly US) A young girl or woman considered vain, spoiled or selfish; a prima donna. [from 20th c.]

   You're a real princess.

7. A tinted crystal marble used in children's games.
8. A type of court card in the Tarot pack, coming between the 10 and the prince (Jack).
9. A female lemur.

Usage notes

• Possessive forms: princess's (main form used by academics) The princess's golden hair.; princess' (main form used by newspapers) The princess' golden hair.
• A princess is usually styled “Her Highness”. A princess in a royal family is “Her Royal Highness”; in an imperial family “Her Imperial Highness”.

Coordinate terms

• prince

Derived terms

terms derived from princess

crown princess pavement princess pearly princess princess cut princessification princessipality princessless

princesslike princessliness princessly princess seam princessy unprincesslike

Related terms

• princely
• principality

Translations

female member of royal family

• Afrikaans: prinses
• Arabic: أَمِيرَة f ‎(ʾamīra)
• Armenian: արքայադուստր ‎(arkʿayadustr)
• Azeri: şahzadə
• Basque: printzesa
• Belarusian: прынцэ́са f ‎(pryncésa), царэ́ўна f ‎(caréŭna) (daughter of a tsar), карале́ўна f ‎(karaljéŭna) (daughter of a king)
• Bulgarian: принце́са (bg) f ‎(princésa)
• Burmese: မင်းသမီး (my) ‎(mang:sa.mi:)
• Breton: maelle, priñsez (br) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公主 (zh) ‎(gōngzhǔ), 王妃 (zh) ‎(wángfēi)

• Czech: princezna (cs) f
• Danish: prinsesse (da)
• Dutch: prinses (nl) f
• Esperanto: reĝidino
• Estonian: printsess
• Faroese: kongsdóttir f, kongadóttir f, prinsessa f
• Finnish: prinsessa (fi)
• French: princesse (fr) f
• Georgian: პრინცესა ‎(ṗrincesa)
• German: Prinzessin (de) f
• Greek: βασιλοπούλα (el) f ‎(vasilopoúla)
• Hawaiian: kamāliʻi wahine
• Hebrew: נְסִיכָה (he) f ‎(nesikhá)
• Hindi: राजकुमारी f ‎(rājkumārī), शहज़दी ‎(śahzadī), राजकन्या (hi) f ‎(rājkanyā)
• Hungarian: hercegnő (hu)
• Icelandic: prinsessa (is) f
• Indonesian: putri (id) f, puteri (id) f
• Irish: flaith f, iníon rí f
• Italian: principessa (it) f
• Japanese: 姫 (ja) ‎(ひめ, hime), 王女 (ja) ‎(おうじょ, ōjo), プリンセス ‎(purinsesu)
• Norman: prîncêsse f
• Kazakh: ханзада ‎(xanzada), ханша ‎(xanşa)
• Khmer: ព្រះនាង ‎(preah nieŋ), រាជបុត្រី ‎(riec bo’trəy)
• Korean: 공주 (ko) ‎(gongju) (公主 (ko))
• Lao: ເຈົ້າຍິງ ‎(chao nying)

• Latin: filia regis f, regina (la) f
• Latvian: princese f
• Lithuanian: princesė f
• Macedonian: принцеза f ‎(princeza)
• Malay: puteri
• Nahuatl: cīhuapīlli, siuapili (nah)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prinsesse f

• Ottoman Turkish: خانم ‎(hanum)
• Persian: شاهدخت (fa) ‎(šâhdoxt)
• Polish: księżniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: princesa (pt) f
• Quechua: ñust'a
• Romanian: prințesă (ro) f
• Russian: принце́сса (ru) f ‎(princéssa), царе́вна (ru) f ‎(carévna) (daughter of a tsar), короле́вна (ru) f ‎(korolévna) (daughter of a king)
• Scottish Gaelic: bana-phrionnsa f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: принцеза f

  Roman: princeza (sh) f

• Slovak: princezná f
• Slovene: princesa (sl) f
• Spanish: princesa (es), infanta (es) f
• Swedish: prinsessa (sv) c
• Tagalog: lakambini, prinsesa (tl), dayangdayang
• Thai: เจ้าหญิง ‎(jâo-yĭng)
• Tibetan: སྲས་མོ ‎(sras mo)
• Turkish: prenses (tr) f
• Ukrainian: принце́са f ‎(pryncésa), царі́вна (uk) f ‎(carívna) (daughter of a tsar), королі́вна (uk) f ‎(korolívna) (daughter of a king)
• Urdu: شہزدی f ‎(śahzadī), راجکماری f ‎(rājkumārī)
• Vietnamese: công chúa (vi), bà chúa
• Volapük: ledaut (vo), jiplin (vo)
• Walloon: princesse (wa) f
• Yiddish: פּרינצעסין f ‎(printsesin), בת־מלכּה f ‎(bas-malke)
• Zulu: inkosazana class 9/6

female monarch, or wife of a ruler

• Afrikaans: koningin (af) f
• Armenian: իշխանուհի (hy) ‎(išxanuhi)
• Catalan: princesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公主 (zh) ‎(gōngzhǔ), 王妃 (zh) ‎(wángfēi)

• Dutch: koningin (nl) f, prinses (nl) f
• Esperanto: princino
• Finnish: ruhtinatar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fürstin (de) f
• Greek: πριγκίπισσα (el) f ‎(prinkípissa)
• Hebrew: נְסִיכָה (he) f ‎(nesikhá)
• Hungarian: fejedelemasszony (hu)
• Indonesian: ratu (id) f
• Irish: banphrionsa m, banfhlaith m

• Japanese: 王妃 (ja) ‎(おうひ, ōhi), プリンセス ‎(purinsesu)
• Norman: prîncêsse f
• Latin: regina (la) f
• Nahuatl: cīhuatlahtoāni, siuatlajtoani
• Polish: księżna (pl) f
• Portuguese: rainha (pt) f
• Russian: княги́ня (ru) f ‎(knjagínja), принце́сса (ru) f ‎(princéssa)
• Scottish Gaelic: bana-phrionnsa f
• Slovene: kneginja (sl) f
• Spanish: princesa (es)
• Swedish: furstinna (sv) c
• Tagalog: prinsesa (tl)
• Turkish: prenses (tr) f
• Vietnamese: công chúa (vi), công nữ
• Volapük: (♂♀) plin (vo), (♂) jiplin (vo)
• Yiddish: פּרינצעסין f ‎(printsesin)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ancient Greek: ^{(please verify)} βασίλεια f ‎(basíleia)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} princesa f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} princeza (sh) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} princesse (fr) f
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} prinsessa (is) f, (obsolete) ^{(please verify)} prinsipissa f

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 공주 (ko) ‎(gongju)
• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} dotmîr (ku) f
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} principissa f
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} രാജകുമാരി f ‎(rājakumāri)
• Novial: ^{(please verify)} prinsa
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} شاهزاده‌خانم ‎(shâhzâde-xânum)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} princesa (es) f, ^{(please verify)} infanta (es) f
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} குமாரத்தி (ta) ‎(kumāratti), ^{(please verify)} இராசகுமாரி ‎(irācakumāri)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} రాజకుమారి ‎(rājakumāri), ^{(please verify)} రాకుమారి (te) ‎(rākumāri)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} công chúa (vi)

See also

• archduchess
• duchess
• grand duchess
• highness
• royal

Anagrams

• crispens