English
Etymology
From milk + maid.
Pronunciation
Noun
milkmaid (plural milkmaids)
- (historical) A girl or young woman who milks the cows on a farm.
- Synonyms: dairymaid, dairywoman
- Coordinate terms: dairyman, milkman
Derived terms
Translations
a young woman who milks the cows on a farm
- Arabic: حالِبَه، عامِلَه في ملْبَنَه f
- Armenian: կաթնավաճառուհի (katʻnavačaṙuhi)
- Azerbaijani: sağıcı
- Bashkir: һауынсы (hawınsı)
- Belarusian: дая́рка f (dajárka)
- Bulgarian: доя́чка f (dojáčka)
- Catalan: lletera f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擠奶女工 / 挤奶女工 (jǐnǎi nǚgōng)
- Chukchi: лывээръылпэттыльын
- Czech: dojička (cs) f
- Danish: malkepige c
- Dutch: melkmeid f, melkmeisje (nl) f
- Estonian: lüpsja
- Faroese: neytakona f
- Finnish: karjakko (fi)
- French: laitière (fr) f, trayeuse (fr) f, fille de laiterie f
- Georgian: მწველავი ქალი (mc̣velavi kali), მწველავი გოგო (mc̣velavi gogo)
- German: Milchmädchen (de) n, Melkerin (de) f
- Greek: αρμέχτρα f (arméchtra)
- Hindi: ग्वालिन (hi) f (gvālin), दूधवाली f (dūdhvālī)
- Hungarian: fejőlány (hu), fejőleány
- Icelandic: mjaltakona f
- Indonesian: pemerah susu
- Irish: cailín bleánaí m
- Italian: lattaia (it) f, mungitrice (it) f
- Japanese: 乳しぼり女 (ちちしぼりのおんな, chichi shibori no onna), 乳搾りの女 (ちちしぼりのおんな, chichi shibori no onna), ミルクメイド (mirukumeido)
- Kazakh: сауыншы (sauynşy)
- Korean: 젖짜는 여자 (jeotjjaneun yeoja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bêrîvan (ku) f, bêrî (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: саанчы (saancı)
- Latvian: slaucēja f
- Lithuanian: melžėja f
- Macedonian: млекарка f (mlekarka)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: budeie m or f
- Nynorsk: budeie f
- Persian: دوشنده (dušande)
- Polish: dojarka (pl) f, dojka (pl) f, dójka f
- Portuguese: (Portugal) leiteira (pt) f, (Brazil) ordenhadora f
- Romanian: mulgătoare (ro) f, lăptăreasă (ro) f
- Russian: доя́рка (ru) f (dojárka)
- Sanskrit: गोपी (sa) f (gopī)
- Scottish Gaelic: banarach f, banchaig f, nighean-bhleoghainn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: музиља f, млекарица f, мљекарица f
- Roman: muzilja (sh) f, mlekarica (sh) f, mljekarica (sh) f
- Slovak: dojička (sk) f, mliekárka f
- Slovene: molznica f
- Spanish: lechera (es) f, ordeñadora (es) f
- Swedish: mjölkerska (sv) f, mjölkpiga (sv) f, mjölkjungfrun f, deja (sv) c
- Tajik: говҷӯш (govjüš), говдуш (govduš)
- Tatar: сөтче (tt) (sötçe)
- Turkish: sütçü kız, sütçü (tr)
- Turkmen: süýtçi
- Ukrainian: доя́рка f (dojárka)
- Uyghur: سۈتچى (sütchi)
- Uzbek: sutchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: cô gái vắt sữa
- Volapük: tätan (vo) m or f, hitätan m, jitätan (vo) f, (older term) jitetan f
- Welsh: llaethferch f
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References
- Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. (accessed: June 15, 2007).