English
Etymology
From Middle English virginite, from Old French virginite, from Latin virginitas. Equivalent to virgin + -ity. Displaced native Old English mæġeþhād, originally meaning “girlhood.”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /və(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɪnɪti/
- Rhymes: -ɪnɪti
Noun
virginity (countable and uncountable, plural virginities)
- The state or characteristic of being a virgin.
- Synonyms: maidenhood, maidenhead, (female) maidhood, (euphemistic, general) V card, (informal) cherry
- to lose one's virginity
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
Derived terms
Translations
state or characteristic of being a virgin
- Albanian: virgjëri (sq) f
- Arabic: بَكَارَة f (bakāra), بَتُولِيَّة f (batūliyya)
- Armenian: կուսություն (hy) (kusutʻyun)
- Aromanian: virghireatsã f
- Asturian: virxinidá f
- Azerbaijani: bakirəlik, bəkarət, qızlıq
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: дзяво́цкасць f (dzjavóckascʹ), цно́та f (cnóta), цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ)
- Bulgarian: де́вственост (bg) f (dévstvenost)
- Carpathian Rusyn: дївство n (djivstvo), нерушаность f (nerušanostʹ), невинность f (nevynnostʹ)
- Catalan: virginitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 處女性 / 处女性 (zh) (chùnǚxìng), 童貞 / 童贞 (zh) (tóngzhēn)
- Czech: panenství (cs) n
- Dutch: maagdelijkheid (nl) f
- Estonian: neitsilikkus
- Finnish: neitsyys (fi)
- French: virginité (fr) f
- Galician: virxinidade (gl) f
- Georgian: სიმწვანე (simc̣vane), ქალწულება (kalc̣uleba), ქალიშვილობა f (kališviloba), ვაჟიშვილობა m (važišviloba)
- German: Jungfräulichkeit (de) f, Virginität (de) f (applies to either gender), Unschuld (de) f (applies to women)
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (magaþei)
- Greek: παρθενία (el) f (parthenía)
- Ancient: παρθενία f (parthenía)
- Hebrew: בְּתוּלִים (he) m pl (b'tulím)
- Interlingua: virginitate
- Irish: maighdeanas m, ócht f
- Italian: verginità (it) f, pulcellaggio m
- Japanese: 処女 (ja) (shojo), 処女性 (shojosei), 童貞 (ja) (dōtei) (man's virginity)
- Khmer: ព្រហ្មចារីភាព (prumcaarəy pʰiep)
- Latin: virginitās f
- Latvian: jaunavība f
- Lithuanian: nekaltýbė f
- Macedonian: невиност f (nevinost)
- Malay: dara (ms), keperawanan
- Manx: moidynys f
- Maori: puhinga, wāhinatanga
- Old English: mæġeþhād m
- Old Occitan: virginitad
- Ottoman Turkish: بكارت (bekâret) (unisex); بكر (bikr, bikir) (of a woman)
- Persian: باکرگی (bâkeregi), بکارت (fa) (bakârat)
- Polish: panieństwo (pl) n, dziewictwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: virgindade (pt) f
- Romanian: virginitate (ro) f, feciorie (ro) f
- Russian: де́вственность (ru) f (dévstvennostʹ), неви́нность (ru) f (nevínnostʹ), непоро́чность (ru) f (neporóčnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: maighdeannas m, òigheachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: не̏вӣно̄ст f
- Roman: nȅvīnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: panenstvo n
- Slovene: devištvo n
- Spanish: virginidad (es), doncellez f
- Swahili: ubikira
- Swedish: oskuld (sv) c, (of a woman) jungfrudom (sv) c, (of a woman) mödom (sv) c, (of a man) svendom (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: కన్నెరికం (te) (kannerikaṁ)
- Thai: พรหมจรรย์ (th) (prom-má-jan)
- Turkish: bakirlik (tr) (male), bakirelik (tr) (female), bekâret (tr), kızlık (tr) (female)
- Ukrainian: цно́та (uk) f (cnóta), неза́йманість (uk) f (nezájmanistʹ), цнотли́вість (uk) f (cnotlývistʹ)
- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Yakut: кыыһынан сылдьыы (kııhınan sıljıı), уолунан сылдьыы (uolunan sıljıı)
- Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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