maidservant

See also:maid-servant

English

Alternative forms

• maid servant,maid-servant

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishmaide servant;equivalent tomaid+‎servant.

Noun

maidservant(pluralmaidservants)

1. Afemaleservant;amaid.
   • 1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Deuteronomy5:13–14,column 2:

     Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. / But the ſeuenth dayisthe Sabbath of theLordthy God:in itthou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thymaid ſeruant,nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger thatiswithin thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thymaid ſeruantmay reſt as well as thou.

   • 1886October –1887January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure,London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,published1887,→OCLC:

     "A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and theirmaid servants,their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came. "

Synonyms

• servantess(obsolete)
• servingmaid
• servingwoman
• servitress
• servitrix
• womanservant

Coordinate terms

• manservant
• servingman

Related terms

• manservant

Translations

female servant, maid

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac:ܡܫܡܫܢܝܬܐf

• Armenian:աղջիկ(hy)(aġǰik),աղախին(hy)(aġaxin)

  Old Armenian:աղախին(ałaxin),նաժիշտ(nažišt)

• Bengali:চাকরানী(cakrani),দাসী(daśi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Nữ phó／Nữ phó(zh)(nǚpú),Nữ dong／Nữ dong(zh)(nǚyōng),Thị nữ(zh)(shìnǚ)

• Finnish:palvelijatar(fi),piika(fi)
• French:servante(fr)f
• German:Zugehfrau(de)f(dated),Mensch(de)n(archaic),Mamsell(de)f(dated),Dienstmädchen(de)n,Hausmädchen(de)n,Thusnelda(de)f(dated),Minna(de)f(archaic),Perle(de)f(dated, slang),Filinef(archaic, student slang),Besen(de)m(archaic, humorous),Magd(de)f
• Greek:

  Ancient:θεράπαιναf(therápaina)

• Hindi:दासी(hi)(dāsī),नौकरानी(hi)(naukrānī)
• Hungarian:szolgálólány(hu),cselédlány(hu)
• Ingrian:gornicnoi,piika
• Irish:banseirbhíseachm

  Middle Irish:cailínm

  Old Irish:banóclachf

• Japanese:Sĩ え nữ(つかえめ, tsukaeme)
• Latin:anculaf,famulaf
• Persian:کنیز(fa)(kaniz)
• Portuguese:criada(pt)f,serviçal(pt)f
• Russian:прислу́га(ru)f(prislúga),служа́нка(ru)f(služánka)
• Scottish Gaelic:ban-òglachf
• Spanish:criada(es)f,moza(es)f
• Swedish:husa(sv)
• Tibetan:གཡོག་མོ(g.yog mo)
• Tocharian B:mañiya
• West Frisian:faam(fy)c

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