婆
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) grandmother
- 2.(bound form) matron
- 3.(bound form) mother-in-law
- 4.(slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
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Wiktionary
- 1.old woman
- 2.grandmother
- 3.mother-in-law (of a woman); husband's mother
- 4.woman in a particular profession
- 5.pejorative suffix for a woman
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *baːl): phonetic 波 (OC *paːl) + semantic 女 (“woman”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷa-n ~ *bʷa-n (“grandmother”). Cognate with Burmese ဘွား (bhwa:, “grandmother”) (STEDT).
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