she-wolf

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

she-wolf (plural she-wolves)

1. 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.

2. (slang, figurative) A predatory woman.

Synonyms

• wolfess

Antonyms

• he-wolf

Hypernyms

• wolf

Translations

female wolf

• Albanian: ulkonjë f, ujkonjë (sq) f, ujkë f
• Arabic: ذِئْبَة f (ḏiʔba)

  Egyptian Arabic: ديبة f (dība)

• Aromanian: lupoanji f, lupã f
• Asturian: lloba (ast)
• Bashkir: инә бүре (inə 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: ulve f, ulvetik 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:

  Cyrillic: вучица f

  Roman: vučica (sh) f

• Slovak: vlčica f
• Spanish: loba (es) f
• Swedish: varginna (sv) c, varghona c, vargtik c, ylva (sv) f (archaic), varghona, honvarg, hon-varg
• Ukrainian: вовчи́ця f (vovčýcja)
• Volapük: jilup (vo), (older term, obsolete) jiludog
• Welsh: bleiddast f