English
Etymology
From French monogamie, from Late Latin monogamia, from Ancient Greek μονογαμία (monogamía). By surface analysis, mono- + -gamy.
Pronunciation
Noun
monogamy (countable and uncountable, plural monogamies)
- A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.
- Coordinate terms: polygamy, agamy
- The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple.
- Coordinate term: polygamy
Derived terms
Translations
permanent pair bond between two beings
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: միակնություն (hy) (miaknutʻyun)
- Belarusian: манага́мія f (manahámija), аднашлю́бнасць f (adnašljúbnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: монога́мия f (monogámija), еднобра́чие n (ednobráčie)
- Catalan: monogàmia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 一夫一妻制 (zh) (yīfūyīqīzhì)
- Esperanto: monogamio
- Finnish: monogamia (fi), yksiavioisuus (fi)
- French: monogamie (fr) f
- Georgian: მონოგამია (monogamia), ერთქორწინება (ertkorc̣ineba)
- German: Monogamie (de) f
- Greek: μονογαμία (el) f (monogamía)
- Gujarati: એકપતિત્વ n (ekpatitva) (having one husband), એકપત્નીત્વ n (ekpatnītva) (having one wife)
- Hindi: एकविवाह (ekvivāh), एकसंगमन (eksaṅgman), एकपत्नित्व (ekpatnitva), एकपतित्व (ekaptitva)
- Irish: aonchéileachas m, monagamas m
- Japanese: 一夫一婦制 (いっぷいっぷせい, ippuippusei)
- Korean: 일부일처제(一夫一妻制) (ilbu'ilcheoje)
- Latin: monogamia f
- Macedonian: еднобра́чност f (ednobráčnost), моногамија f (monogamija)
- Maori: moe punatahi
- Persian: تک همسری, تک جفتی
- Polish: monogamia (pl) f
- Portuguese: monogamia (pt) f
- Romanian: monogamie (ro) f
- Russian: монога́мия (ru) f (monogámija), единобра́чие (ru) n (jedinobráčije)
- Serbo-Croatian: jednožénstvo (sh) n, monogàmija (sh) f
- Spanish: monogamia (es) f
- Swedish: monogami (sv) c, engifte (sv) n
- Thai: ผัวเดียวเมียเดียว (pǔua-diao-miia-diao)
- Ukrainian: монога́мія (uk) f (monohámija), одношлю́бність f (odnošljúbnistʹ)
- Welsh: monogami m
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