minʒ

Romani

Alternative forms

minzh, mizh (Anglicized)
mindž (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly borrowed from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “loins, belly, abdomen”). Alternatively, and more likely, inherited from Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), thus cognate with Hindi माँझ (māñjh, “in, inside”), Punjabi ਮੰਝ (mañjh, “in the middle of the body”) and Kashmiri مَنٛز (manz, “in, inside, within”).

Noun

minʒ f (nominative plural minʒa)

(International Standard)
1. vagina^[1]^[2]
2. vulva^[3]

Descendants

→ Bulgarian: ми́нджа (míndža)
→ Czech: minža
→ English: minge
→ Latvian: mendža
→ Lithuanian: mìžė
→ Russian: минжа́ (minžá)

References

^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mindž”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 181b
^ Victor A. Friedman (2020) “The Impact of Turkish on Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 236
^ Ronald Lee (2005) “Lesson seven”, in Learn Romani: Das-dúma Rromanes, reprint edition, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, published 2017, →ISBN, page 94

[1] Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mindž”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 181b

[2] Victor A. Friedman (2020) “The Impact of Turkish on Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 236

[3] Ronald Lee (2005) “Lesson seven”, in Learn Romani: Das-dúma Rromanes, reprint edition, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, published 2017, →ISBN, page 94

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