Word for woman or women in other languages?

[Cailleach1]

Just that. I'd love to see the many varied words for adult homo sapiens of the female sex around the world? Many words, but only having one specific meaning.

Bean (sounds like 'ban' in English) means woman and Mná (sounds like meh-naw in English) means women in Irish.

Femme in French.

Aurat in Hindi

Donna in Italian (femmina for female). I've noticed that it isn't used that much - I think it implies someone of a certain age or authority.

Also Stree in Hindi.
Khatoon in Urdu.
Kudi in Punjabi.

Femeie/Femei in Romanian.

Vrou in Afrikaans.

Mosali in Sesotho (the i is pronounced as a d - mo-SA-di).

Frau in German

Kadin in Turkish

Dynas in Northern Welsh. Merchaid would be the plural.
Menyw in Southern Welsh

'Merch' is used to but I feel it's a bit too close to 'maid'. It does not have this connotation when used in the plural for some reason.

Nuren in Chinese. Which seems to mean female man

Bean in Irish. 😁

Bean is Irish for woman.

baineann Is Irish for female.

Boireannach - Scottish Gaelic for woman.

Mujer is Spanish
Frau is German
Donna Italian

Femina in Latin

Nainen in Finnish

женщна in Russian (pronounced zhensheena)

женщина *missed a letter, still learning

אשה
Isha - woman

נשים
Nashim - women

In Hebrew. A very gendered language.

žona and žeńska in the two Sorbian dialects spoken in Germany. Interesting to see the similarities to Russian there, MrsSnitchnose (both obviously derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic).

Still just means adult human female.

Interestingly, Sorbian knows a dual form in addition to the usual singular and plural ones.

I should add to the above that the second term, žeńska, which is more commonly used, also has a second meaning of "wife".
While the equivalent word for man means either human or man or husband.

Funny how many languages have done this, framing males as the default human.

Is there a language where the word for woman is also the generic term for human?

nő in Hungarian, or plural nők (pronounced nur and nurk)

Old German used to have 'wif' for woman and 'wer' for man. 'Man' version was person. See how wer evolved to the default human? Some vestiges remain (e.g.werewolf=wolf man).

Modern versions of this are: wife/woman/man in English

In German: Frau (wife or woman), Mann (man)

Icelandic: Kona (woman)
Norwegian: kvinne (woman but also can be wife) but hunn is female and male is hann.

But most Germanic based languages have evolved to forms of "man" for the penis havers. It used to just mean "human"

@bellinique

Nuren in Chinese. Which seems to mean female man

No, rén 人 means person 女人 nǚ rén is woman 男人 nán rén is man

In Mandarin.

ผู้หญิง In Thai. It’s pronounced something like: pooo yiiinnng

Vrouw/Vrouwen in Dutch.