odalisque

English

Odalisque painted by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1874)

Alternative forms

odalisk

Etymology

Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطه‌لق‎ (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده‎ (oda, “room”).[1]

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/, /ˈɒd(ə)lɪsk/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊdlɪsk/, /oʊdlˈisk/

Noun

odalisque (plural odalisques)

(historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
A desirable or sexually attractive woman.

Antonyms

virago

Translations

a female harem slave

Arabic: جَارِيَّة‎ (ar) f (jāriyya)
Catalan: odalisca (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宮女／宫女 (zh) (gōngnǚ)
Dutch: odalisk (nl)
French: odalisque (fr) f
German: Odaliske (de) f
Greek: οδαλίσκη (el) f (odalíski)
Hungarian: odaliszk
Icelandic: ódalíska
Italian: odalisca (it) f
Polish: odaliska (pl)
Portuguese: odalisca (pt) f
Russian: одали́ска (ru) f (odalíska)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: одалиска f, џарија f

Roman: odaliska (sh) f, džarija f
Spanish: odalisca (es) f
Turkish: odalık (tr), cariye (tr), halayık (tr)

See also

sultana

References

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition (2008): "odalisque"

Anagrams

odaliques

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوطه‌لق‎ (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده‎ (oda, “room”).

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

odalisque f (plural odalisques)

(historical) odalisque

Descendants

→ Catalan: odalisca
→ Dutch: odalisk
→ English: odalisque
→ German: Odaliske
- → Hungarian: odaliszk
→ Icelandic: ódalíska
→ Italian: odalisca
→ Portuguese: odalisca
→ Russian: одали́ска (odalíska)
→ Serbo-Croatian: одалиска (odaliska)
→ Spanish: odalisca

Further reading

“odalisque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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