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senora
English
Noun
senora (plural senoras)
- Alternative spelling of señora
Anagrams
- Reason, Roanes, Serano, arseno-, reason
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frau
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Frau. Doublet of frow and vrouw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
frau (plural fraus)
- A woman, especially a German woman.
Anagrams
- Rauf, Urfa, fuar
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin fraus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?f?aw/
- Rhymes: -aw
Noun
frau m (plural fraus)
- fraud
Further reading
- “frau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “frau” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “frau” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “frau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
German
Etymology
From Frau by making the first letter lower-case. Coined as an alternative to the male-sounding word man (“one”), which is cognate and homophonous with Mann (“adult male”). First used by feminists when writing about women, then occasionally used in general contexts. Compare the pronoun mensch. Compare also the use of she vs he in English to refer to someone whose gender is unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fra??/
- Homophone: Frau
- Rhymes: -a??
Pronoun
frau
- (indefinite, informal, slang, rare) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)
- 1998, Matthias Matussek, Die vaterlose Gesellschaft: überfällige Anmerkungen zum Geschlechterkampf, page 47:
- Sie ist selbst dann noch beschissen, wenn frau sie beendet hat.
- 2003, Ulrike Schlicht, Selbsterweiterungsprozesse alleinlebender Frauen, ?ISBN, page 218:
- Wenn frau sich kennt, braucht sie nicht vor sich wegzulaufen.
- 2008, Gaye Suse Kromer, Obszöne Lust oder etablierte Unterhaltung?, page 163:
- Erst mal sechs Jahre alleine und frau muss auch zusehen, dass sie sich gerne hat. Das liebe ich, mit mir selbst zu sein und mich zu mögen und mich zu streicheln.
- 1998, Matthias Matussek, Die vaterlose Gesellschaft: überfällige Anmerkungen zum Geschlechterkampf, page 47:
Usage notes
- The word is more frequently used by left-wing and/or feminist writers and speakers, which may use this word in a serious formal context, where this word is not usually acceptable, in order to express their political views. In informal context, such as magazine articles, frau is usually used just once in a text as a stylistic flourish to underline that a women-specific topic is discussed.
References
Further reading
- “frau” in Duden online
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- fraud
Etymology
From Old Norse frauð.
Noun
frau f or m (definite singular frauen or fraua, indefinite plural frauer or frauar, definite plural frauene or frauane)
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Inflection
Related terms
- frode
References
- “frau” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- frua, fura
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