virginity

English

Etymology

From Old French virginite, from Latin virginitas.

Noun

virginity ‎(countable and uncountable, plural virginities)

1. The state or characteristic of being a virgin.

   She took his virginity.

Synonyms

• (state or characteristic of being a virgin (both genders)): V card
• (state or characteristic of being a virgin (females only)): maidenhood, maidenhead, maidhood

Translations

state or characteristic of being a virgin

• Albanian: virgjëri (sq) f
• Arabic: بَكَارَة f ‎(bakāra), بَتُولِيَّة f ‎(batūliyya)
• Aromanian: virghireatsã f
• Asturian: virxinidá f
• Belarusian: дзяво́цкасць f ‎(dzjavóckascʹ), цно́та f ‎(cnóta), цнатлі́васць f ‎(cnatlívascʹ)
• Bulgarian: де́вственост (bg) f ‎(dévstvenost)
• Catalan: virginitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處女性 (zh), 处女性 (zh) ‎(chùnǚxìng), 童貞 (zh), 童贞 (zh) ‎(tóngzhēn)

• Czech: panenství n
• Dutch: maagdelijkheid (nl) f
• Estonian: neitsilikkus
• Finnish: neitsyys (fi)
• French: virginité (fr) f
• Galician: virxinidade f
• Georgian: სიმწვანე ‎(simc̣vane), ქალწულება ‎(kalc̣uleba), ქალიშვილობა f ‎(kališviloba), ვაჟიშვილობა m ‎(važišviloba)
• German: Jungfräulichkeit (de) f, Virginität (de) f (applies to either gender), Unschuld (de) f (applies to women)
• Greek: παρθενία (el) f ‎(parthenía)
• Interlingua: virginitate
• Irish: maighdeanas m, ócht f
• Italian: verginità (it) f
• Japanese: 処女性 ‎(しょじょせい, shojosei), 童貞 (ja) ‎(どうてい, dōtei) (man's virginity)
• Khmer: ព្រហ្មចារីភាព ‎(prumcaarəy pʰiep)
• Latin: virginitās f

• Latvian: jaunavība f
• Lithuanian: nekaltýbė f
• Malay: dara (ms), keperawanan
• Manx: moidynys f
• Maori: puhinga, wāhinatanga
• Old Provençal: virginitad
• Persian: باکرگی ‎(bâkeregi), بکارت (fa) ‎(bakârat)
• Polish: panieństwo n, dziewictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: virgindade (pt) f
• Romanian: virginitate (ro) f, feciorie (ro) f
• Russian: де́вственность (ru) f ‎(dévstvennostʹ), неви́нность (ru) f ‎(nevínnostʹ), непоро́чность (ru) f ‎(neporóčnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: maighdeannas m, òigheachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: невиност f

  Roman: nevinost (sh) f

• Slovak: panenstvo n
• Slovene: devištvo n
• Spanish: virginidad (es)
• Swedish: oskuld (sv) c, (of a woman) jungfrudom (sv) c, (of a woman) mödom c, (of a man) svendom (sv) c
• Telugu: కన్నెరికం (te) ‎(kannerikaṃ)
• Turkish: (male) bakirlik (tr), (female) bakirelik (tr), bekâret (tr), (female) kızlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: цно́та (uk) f ‎(cnóta), неза́йманість (uk) f ‎(nezájmanistʹ), цнотли́вість (uk) f ‎(cnotlývistʹ)