whore dictionary
Romance Languages
• Spanish – puta
• Portuguese – puta
• Italian – puttana
• French – pute
• Romanian – curvă
• Catalan – puta
• Galician – puta
Germanic Languages
• English – whore, slut
• German – Hure
• Dutch – hoer
• Swedish – hora
• Danish – luder
• Norwegian – hore
• Icelandic – hóra
Slavic Languages
• Russian – путана (putana), шлюха (shlyukha)
• Polish – kurwa
• Czech – kurva
• Slovak – kurva
• Ukrainian – повія (poviya)
• Bulgarian – курва (kurva)
• Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian – kurva
Greek & Albanian
• Greek – πούτα (pouta), πόρνη (porni)
• Albanian – kurvë
Baltic Languages
• Lithuanian – kekšė
• Latvian – mauka
Uralic Languages
• Finnish – huora
• Hungarian – kurva
• Estonian – lits
Celtic Languages
• Irish – striapach
• Scottish Gaelic – siùrsach
• Welsh – putain (borrowed), butain
Semitic Languages
• Arabic – عاهرة (ʿāhira)
• Hebrew – זונה (zona)
Turkic Languages
• Turkish – orospu
Indo-Aryan Languages
• Hindi – रंडी (randi)
• Urdu – رنڈی (randi)
• Bengali – বেশ্যা (beshya)
East & Southeast Asia
• Japanese – 売春婦 (baishunfu), slang: ヤリマン (yariman)
• Korean – 창녀 (changnyeo)
• Chinese (Mandarin) – 妓女 (jìnǚ), slang: 婊子 (biǎozi)
• Thai – โสเภณี (sopheni)
• Vietnamese – đĩ
Other
• Swahili – kahaba
• Zulu – isifebe
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Comments
I find it fascinating that so many of these words resemble puta. Etymology is cool