slavess

English

Etymology

From slave +‎ -ess.

Noun

slavess (plural slavesses)

1. female slave

   Hypernym: slave

   • 1883, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 66, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons., page 2:

     Should a Moor marry his slavess, which is a common practice here, the latter is free from the moment of such marriage, and her offspring likewise.

   • 1913, The Holy Bible in Modern English: Containing the Complete Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments‎^[1], page 110:

     But now you have turned and polluted My Name, and everyone seizes his male or female slave, whom you had released into freedom, to pollute and degrade them to be your slaves and slavesses.

   • 2016, Edgar Chías, translated by Migdalia Cruz, Sky on the Skin, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 54:

     I come home from working to support you and all the other slavesses that I have.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: orja (fi) (gender neutral), orjatar (fi), naisorja
• German: Sklavin (de) f
• Gujarati: દાસી f (dāsī)
• Hindi: दासी (hi) f (dāsī), दासिका (hi) f (dāsikā)
• Pali: dāsī f
• Polish: niewolnica (pl) f
• Prakrit: 𑀤𑀸𑀲𑀻 f (dāsī)
• Punjabi: ਦਾਸੀ f (dāsī)
• Romanian: sclavă (ro) f
• Sanskrit: दासी (sa) f (dāsī), दासिका (sa) f (dāsikā), व्यवहारिका (sa) f (vyavahārikā)