empress dowager

English

Noun

empress dowager (plural empress dowagers)

The mother of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire.

Translations

mother of an emperor

Arabic: الإمبراطورة الأم‎
Catalan: emperadriu vídua
Chinese:
Mandarin: 皇太后 (zh) (huángtàihòu), 太后 (zh) (tàihòu)
Finnish: leskikeisarinna
French: impératrice douairière
German: kaiserinmutter
Indonesian: janda permaisuri
Italian: imperatrice vedova

Japanese: 皇太后 (こうたいごう)
Korean: 황태후 (Hwang Tae Hu)
Polish: cesarzowa wdowa
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: вдо́вствующая императри́ца f (vdóvstvujuščaja imperatríca)
Spanish: emperatriz viuda
Swedish: änkedrottning
Thai: ฮองไทเฮา
Vietnamese: Hoàng Thái Hậu

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