maid

See also: Maid

English

Etymology

Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”). Cognate with Dutch meid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meɪd/
Rhymes: -eɪd
Homophone: made
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Noun

maid (plural maids)

(dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎:
  She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
(archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
- 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
  Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
  You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

Synonyms

(young female person): damsel, maiden
(female servant): handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant
(female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)

Derived terms

Terms derived from maid

Translations

young female

Arabic: فَتَاة‎‎ f (fatāh)
Armenian: օրիորդ (hy) (ōriord)
Breton: merc'h (br) f, plac'h (br) f
Catalan: donzella (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 少女 (zh) (shàonǚ), 處女 (zh), 处女 (zh) (chǔnǚ)
Cornish: maghteth
Dutch: meisje (nl) n, meid (nl) f
Finnish: neito (fi)
French: demoiselle (fr) f, jeune fille (fr) f
Galician: rapaza f, rapariga f, garela f, moza f, trondia f, garda f
German: Mädchen (de) n
Hebrew: עלמה‎‎ f (almah)
Hindi: लड़की (hi) f (laṛkī)
Ido: damzelo (io)
Interlingua: senioretta
Irish: cailín (ga) m, ainnir f, maighdean f
Italian: signorina (it) f
Japanese: 少女 (ja) (しょうじょ, shōjo)
Korean: 소녀 (ko) (sonyeo) (少女 (ko))

Latin: puella (la) f
Polish: panna (pl) f
Portuguese: donzela (pt) f, moça (pt) f
Romanian: fecioară (ro) f, fată (ro) f
Russian: деви́ца (ru) f (devíca), де́ва (ru) f (déva), де́вушка (ru) f (dévuška)
Scots: deem
Scottish Gaelic: ainnir f, maighdeann (gd) f, rìbhinn (gd) f, òigh f, gruagach (gd) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дева f, дјева f, девојка f, дјевојка f, мома f

Roman: deva (sh) f, djeva (sh) f, devojka (sh) f, djevojka (sh) f, moma (sh)
Spanish: doncella (es) f, señorita (es) f
Swahili: wafanyikazi (sw)
Swedish: mö (sv) c, jungfru (sv) c
Telugu: కన్య (te) (kanya)
Thai: สาว (th) (sǎao)
Urdu: لڑکی‎‎ f (laṛkī)
Vietnamese: con gái (vi), thiếu nữ (vi) (少女)
Welsh: merch (cy) f, geneth (cy) f, rhiain f, morwyn (cy) f
Yiddish: מויד‎‎ f (moyd), מיידל‎‎ n (meydl)

female servant or cleaner

Arabic: خَادِمَة‎‎ f (ḵādima)
Armenian: աղախին (hy) (ałaxin)
Catalan: criada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女僕 (zh), 女仆 (zh) (nǚpú), 女傭 (zh), 女佣 (zh) (nǚyòng), 傭婦 (zh), 佣妇 (zh) (yōngfù), 侍女 (zh) (shìnǚ)
Cornish: maghteth f
Czech: služka (cs) f
Dutch: meid (nl) f, dienstmeid (nl) f
Esperanto: servistino
Finnish: palvelustyttö (fi), piika (fi), palvelijatar
French: bonne (fr) f, bonne à tout faire (fr) f, domestique (fr) f, servante (fr)
German: Dienstmädchen (de) n
Greek: καμαριέρα (el) f (kamariéra)
Hebrew: חַדְרָנִית‎‎ f (ḥadranít)
Hindi: नौकरानी (hi) f (naukrānī)
Hungarian: szobalány (hu)
Indonesian: pembantu (id), babu (id)
Interlingua: serviente
Irish: cailín (ga) m
Italian: cameriera (it) f
Japanese: 女中 (じょちゅう, jochū), メイド (meido)
Korean: 하녀 (ko) (hanyeo) (下女 (ko))

Latin: ancilla f
Maori: hāwini
Marathi: बाई f (bāī), कामवाली बाई f (kāmavālī bāī)
Northern Sami: biiga
Norwegian: pike (no) m, stuepike m, tjenestejente m
Portuguese: empregada (pt) f, servente (pt) f
Romanian: servitoare (ro) f, fată în casă (ro) f
Russian: го́рничная (ru) f (górničnaja), служа́нка (ru) f (služánka)
Scots: deem
Scottish Gaelic: ban-òglach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: слушкиња f, собарица f, служавка f

Roman: sluškinja (sh) f, sobarica (sh) f, služavka (sh) f
Spanish: (inoffensive terms) criada (es) f, doméstica (es) f, empleada doméstica (es) f, muchacha de servicio f, sirvienta f, asesora del hogar (es) f (Chile, formal usage), asistenta (es) f (Spain), mucama f (Argentina, Uruguay), nana (es) f (Chile), señora de servicio f (Venezuela), (offensive terms) cachifa (es) f (Venezuela), chacha (es) f (Mexico, Spain), cholera f (El Salvador, Guatemala), chopa (es) f (Dominican Republic), fregona (es) f (Spain), gata (es) f (Mexico), muca f (Guatemala), nacha f (Honduras)
Swahili: mfanyikazi (sw)
Swedish: hembiträde (sv) c
Telugu: పనిపిల్ల (panipilla)
Thai: สาวใช้ (sǎao-chái)
Tok Pisin: haus meri
Urdu: نوکرانی‎‎ f (naukrānī)
Vietnamese: đầy tớ gái, hầu gái
Yiddish: מויד‎‎ f (moyd), דינסטמויד‎‎ f (dinstmoyd)

Anagrams

Dima, aim'd, amid, diam, diam.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

Noun

maid

A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.

Synonyms

(maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

milk

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

(Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmajt/

Adverb

maid

also, too

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

milk

Inflection

Inflection of maid
nominative sing.	maid
genitive sing.	maidon
partitive sing.	maidod
partitive plur.	maidoid
	singular	plural
nominative	maid	maidod
accusative	maidon	maidod
genitive	maidon	maidoiden
partitive	maidod	maidoid
essive-instructive	maidon	maidoin
translative	maidoks	maidoikš

inessive	maidos	maidoiš
elative	maidospäi	maidoišpäi
illative	?	maidoihe

adessive	maidol	maidoil
ablative	maidolpäi	maidoilpäi
allative	maidole	maidoile

abessive	maidota	maidoita
comitative	maidonke	maidoidenke
prolative	maidodme	maidoidme

approximative I	maidonno	maidoidenno
approximative II	maidonnoks	maidoidennoks
egressive	maidonnopäi	maidoidennopäi

terminative I	?	maidoihesai
terminative II	maidolesai	maidoilesai
terminative III	maidossai	—

additive I	?	maidoihepäi
additive II	maidolepäi	maidoilepäi

Derived terms

hapanmaid
pihtimaid
rahtmaid
maidnedal'

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “молоко”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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