milkmaid

See also: milk-maid

English

Alternative forms

milk-maid (archaic)

Etymology

milk +‎ maid

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlkmeɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

milkmaid (plural milkmaids)

(historical) A girl or young woman who milks the cows on a farm.
Synonyms: dairymaid, dairywoman

Coordinate terms: dairyman, milkman

Derived terms

milkmaid's yoke

Translations

a young woman who milks the cows on a farm

Arabic: حالِبَه، عامِلَه في ملْبَنَه f
Armenian: կաթնավաճառուհի (katʿnavačaṙuhi)
Azerbaijani: sağıcı
Bashkir: һауынсы (hawınsı)
Belarusian: дая́рка f (dajárka)
Bulgarian: доя́чка f (dojáčka)
Catalan: lletera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 擠奶女工／挤奶女工 (jǐnǎi nǚgōng)
Chukchi: лывээръылпэттыльын
Czech: dojička (cs) f
Danish: malkepige c
Dutch: melkmeid f, melkmeisje (nl) f
Estonian: lüpsja
Faroese: neytakona f
Finnish: karjakko (fi)
French: laitière (fr) f, trayeuse (fr) f, fille de laiterie f
Georgian: მწველავი ქალი (mc̣velavi kali), მწველავი გოგო (mc̣velavi gogo)
German: Milchmädchen (de) n, Melkerin (de) f
Greek: αρμέχτρα f (arméchtra)
Hindi: ग्वालिन (hi) f (gvālin), दूधवाली f (dūdhvālī)
Hungarian: fejőlány (hu), fejőleány
Icelandic: mjaltakona f
Indonesian: pemerah susu
Italian: lattaia (it) f, mungitrice (it) f
Japanese: 乳しぼり女 (ちちしぼりのおんな, chichi shibori no onna), 乳搾りの女 (ちちしぼりのおんな, chichi shibori no onna), ミルクメイド (mirukumeido)
Kazakh: сауыншы (sauynşy)
Korean: 젖짜는 여자 (jeotjjaneun yeoja)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bêrîvan (ku) f, bêrî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: саанчы (saancı)
Latvian: slaucēja f
Lithuanian: melžėja f
Macedonian: млекарка f (mlekarka)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: budeie m or f

Nynorsk: budeie f
Persian: دوشنده (dušande)
Polish: dojarka (pl) f, dojka (pl) f, dójka f
Portuguese: (Portugal) leiteira (pt) f, (Brazil) ordenhadora f
Romanian: mulgătoare (ro) f, lăptăreasă (ro) f
Russian: доя́рка (ru) f (dojárka)
Sanskrit: गोपी (sa) f (gopī)
Scottish Gaelic: banarach f, banchaig f, nighean-bhleoghainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: музиља f, млекарица f, мљекарица f

Roman: muzilja (sh) f, mlekarica (sh) f, mljekarica (sh) f
Slovak: dojička (sk) f, mliekárka f
Slovene: molznica f
Spanish: lechera (es) f, ordeñadora (es) f
Swedish: mjölkerska (sv) f, mjölkpiga (sv) f, mjölkjungfrun f, deja (sv) c
Tajik: говҷӯш (govjüš), говдуш (govduš)
Tatar: сөтче (tt) (sötçe)
Turkish: sütçü kız, sütçü (tr)
Turkmen: süýtçi
Ukrainian: доя́рка f (dojárka)
Uyghur: سۈتچى (sütchi)
Uzbek: sutchi (uz)
Vietnamese: cô gái vắt sữa
Volapük: tätan (vo) m or f, hitätan m, jitätan (vo) f, (older term) jitetan f
Welsh: llaethferch f

References

milkmaid. Dictionary.com. Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/milkmaid (accessed: June 15, 2007).

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