different between geisha vs courtesan

English

Alternative forms

• geisya

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??(????) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC ?i?i^H, “art, craft”) + ? (MC t??ia^X, “-er”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.??/
• Rhymes: -e???

Noun

geisha (plural geisha or geishas)

1. A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

Synonyms

• geisha girl
• geiko
• maiko

Translations

References

Finnish

Alternative forms

• geiša

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ei???/, [??e?i???]
• IPA^(key): /??ei?s?/, [??e?i?s??]

Noun

geisha

1. A geisha.
2. When used as modifier in compound terms, may also refer to "Geisha" chocolate brand, e.g. geishakakku, geishajäädyke.

Declension

Compounds

• geishakuula
• geishapallo
• geishakuula

French

Etymology

From Japanese ??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?a/, /??j.?a/

Noun

geisha f (plural geishas)

1. geisha

Derived terms

• boule de geisha

Further reading

• “geisha” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• gheiscia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???j.??a/

Noun

geisha f (plural geishe)

1. geisha

Japanese

Romanization

geisha

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• geiscia

Noun

geisha f (plural geisha)

1. geisha

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese ??

Noun

geisha f (plural geishas)

1. geisha

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (geisha, “artisan”)

Pronunciation

Noun

geisha (n class, plural geisha)

1. geisha

Swedish

Noun

geisha c

1. geisha

Declension

Derived terms

• geishaskola

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French courtisane, from Italian cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (“courtier”), from corte (“court”), itself from Latin cohors.

Pronunciation

• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /k??t??zæn/, /?k??t?zæn/, /?k??t?z?n/
• (UK, rhotic) IPA^(key): /k??t??zæn/, /?k??t?zæn/, /?k??t?z?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??t?z?n/, /?k??t?zæn/, /?ko?t?z?n/, /?ko?t?zæn/

Noun

courtesan (plural courtesans)

1. (archaic) A woman of a royal or noble court.
2. (dated) The mistress of a royal or noble.
3. A female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute

   • 2014, Frances Wilson, The Courtesan's Revenge, Faber & Faber (?ISBN), page 10:

     In the notes he wrote for Nana, his novel about a courtesan in Second Empire Paris, Zola imagined ‘a whole society hurling itself’ at her body, ‘a pack of hounds after a bitch, who is not even on heat and makes fun of the hounds following her’. This might also describe the life of Harriette Wilson, whose unguarded pursuit by the leaders of the British aristocracy, the army, the government and opposition made her the most desired, and then the most dangerous, woman in Regency London.

Translations

Further reading

• courtesan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• acentrous, ancestour, auncestor, courantes, ctenosaur, nectarous, outrances