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Queen
English
Etymology
Related to Anglo-Saxon quean , woman, from Old English cwēn, and cognate with quean .
Pronunciation
- (US) SAMPA:/kwin/
Noun
queen, plural queens
- A female monarch. Ex: Queen Victoria
- (chess) Piece able to move both horizontally and diagonally any number of spaces; most powerful piece.
- (playing_cards) Playing card with picture of queen on its face, 12th card in a given suit.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- Slang. A male homosexual who is particularly effeminate. See Drag queen .
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp
- An adult female cat. See tom.
Translations
- Arabic: مَلِكَة (malika)
- Breton: rouanez f -ed pl (1,2,4), damez f (3), katell f -ed pl (5)
- Bulgarian: кралица f (1), царица f (1, 2, 5), дама f (3), травестит (5)
- Catalan: reina f
- Chinese: 后, 王后 , 女王
- Czech: královna (1, 4), dáma (2, 3) f, svršek (3) m
- Danish: dronning c (1)
- Dutch: koningin (1,3,6) f, dame f (2)
- Esperanto: reĝino
- Finnish: kuningatar (1, 2, 3, 6), neiti (5), kana (5)
- French: reine f (1, 2, 3), dame, (2); folle f (4)
- Galician: raíña f
- German: Königin f (1, 6), Dame f (2, 3)
- Greek: vasileia , vaseilissa
- Hebrew: מלכה f
- Indonesian: ratu
- Interlingua: regina
- Italian: regina f (1, 2, 3, 4), donna (2)
- Japanese: 女王 (じょおう, joō)
- Korean: 여왕 [女王] (yeowang)
- Latin: regina f
- Lithuanian: karalienė f (1, 4); sometimes karalė f (ruling female monarch, when her consort is not ruling) (1) valdovė f (2); dama f (3); motinėlė f (6)
- Norwegian: Dronning
- Polish: królowa f (1,2,6), hetman m (2), dama f (3)
- Portuguese: rainha f
- Romanian: regină f (1, 2) damă (3)
- Russian: королева (koroleva)
- Slovak: kráľovná (1, 4), dáma (2, 3) f, horník (3) m
- Slovene: kraljica f (1, 2, 3), matica f (6)
- Spanish: reina f
- Swedish: drottning c (1, 6), dam c (2, 3)
- Turkish: kraliçe
- Vietnamese: Nữ-hoàng , Hoàng-hậu
- Volapük: jireg
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