virginity

English

Borrowed from Old French virginite, itself a borrowing from Latin virginitas. Synchronically, from virgin +‎ -ity.

virginity (countable and uncountable, plural virginities)

(state or characteristic of being a virgin (both genders)): V card
(state or characteristic of being a virgin (females only)): maidenhood, maidenhead, maidhood

state or characteristic of being a virgin

Albanian: virgjëri (sq) f
Arabic: بَكَارَة‎ f (bakāra), بَتُولِيَّة‎ f (batūliyya)
Armenian: կուսություն (hy) (kusutʿyun)
Aromanian: virghireatsã f
Asturian: virxinidá f
Belarusian: дзяво́цкасць f (dzjavóckascʹ), цно́та f (cnóta), цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ)
Bulgarian: де́вственост (bg) f (dévstvenost)
Catalan: virginitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 處女性 (zh), 处女性 (zh) (chùnǚxìng), 童貞 (zh), 童贞 (zh) (tóngzhēn)
Czech: panenství (cs) n
Dutch: maagdelijkheid (nl) f
Estonian: neitsilikkus
Finnish: neitsyys (fi)
French: virginité (fr) f
Galician: virxinidade 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)
Interlingua: virginitate
Irish: maighdeanas m, ócht f
Italian: verginità (it) f
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
Malay: dara (ms), keperawanan
Manx: moidynys f
Maori: puhinga, wāhinatanga
Old Occitan: virginitad
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)
Swedish: oskuld (sv) c, (of a woman) jungfrudom (sv) c, (of a woman) mödom c, (of a man) svendom (sv) c
Telugu: కన్నెరికం (te) (kannerikaṃ)
Thai: พรหมจรรย์ (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)

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