she-wolf

English

Etymology

From Middle English she wolf; equivalent to she- +‎ wolf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

she-wolf (plural she-wolves)

A female wolf.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 212:
  In some trepidation the priest and his friend accompanied the wolf to his den, where lay a she-wolf on the point of death.
(slang, figuratively) A predatory woman.

Synonyms

wolfess

Antonyms

he-wolf

Hypernyms

wolf

Translations

female wolf

Albanian: ulkonjë f, ujkonjë (sq) f, ujkë f
Arabic: ذِئْبَة‎ f (ḏiʾba)
Egyptian Arabic: ديبة‎ f (dība)
Aromanian: lupoanji f, lupã f
Bashkir: инә бүре (inä büre)
Belarusian: ваўчы́ца f (vaŭčýca)
Breton: bleizez (br) f
Bulgarian: вълчица f (vǎlčica)
Catalan: lloba (ca) f
Czech: vlčice f
Danish: hunulv c, ulvinde (da) c
Dutch: wolvin (nl) f
Esperanto: lupino
Faroese: úlvatík f
Finnish: naarassusi
French: louve (fr) f
Friulian: love f
German: Wölfin (de) f
Greek: λύκαινα (el) f (lýkaina)
Ancient: λύκαινα f (lúkaina)
Hebrew: זְאֵבָה‎ f (zeevá, ze’evá)
Icelandic: úlfynja f, vargynja f, ylgur f or m
Ido: volfino (io)
Irish: mac tíre baineann m
Italian: lupa (it) f
Kashmiri: رامہٕ ہوٗنؠ‎ (rāmhụ hūn')
Kazakh: құртқа (qūrtqa)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: dêlegur (ku) f
Latin: lupa f
Ligurian: lôa f
Lithuanian: vilkė f
Malay: serigala betina
Neapolitan: lopa f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ulvinne m or f, hunnulv m, vargtik m or f
Nynorsk: ulveho f, vargtik f
Old Norse: ylgr f
Old Swedish: ylva f
Persian: ماده‌گرگ‎ (mâde-gorg)
Polish: wilczyca (pl) f, wadera (pl) f, basiora (pl) f
Portuguese: loba (pt)
Romani: ruvni f
Romanian: lupoaică (ro) f, lupoaie (ro) f (regional)
Russian: волчи́ца (ru) f (volčíca)
Sanskrit: वृकी (sa) f (vṛkī)
Serbo-Croatian: вучица f
Slovak: vlčica f
Spanish: loba (es) f
Swedish: varginna (sv) c, varghona c, vargtik c, ylva (sv) f (archaic), varghona
Ukrainian: вовчи́ця f (vovčýcja)
Volapük: jilup (vo), (older term, obsolete) jiludog
Welsh: bleiddast f