lingerie

English

Assorted lingerie styles

Etymology

Borrowed from French lingerie.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæn.ʒə.ɹi/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌlɑn.(d)ʒəˈɹeɪ/, /ˈlɑn.(d)ʒə.ɹi/
Rhymes: -eɪ
Rhymes: -iː

Noun

lingerie (usually uncountable, plural lingeries)

Women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
(dated) Linen goods collectively.

Translations

women's underwear or nightclothes

Arabic: مَلَابِس اَلنِّسَاء اَلتَّحْتِيَّة‎ pl (malābis an-nisāʾ at-taḥtiyya)
Bengali: ল্যানজারি (ljanjari)
Catalan: llenceria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女內衣, 女内衣 (nǚ nèiyì)
Czech: prádélko n
Dutch: lingerie (nl)
Esperanto: ekscitvesto
Finnish: alusvaatteet pl
French: lingerie (fr) f
Galician: brancura f, lenzaría f
German: Damenunterwäsche f, Dessous (de) n pl
Hebrew: הלבשה תחתונה‎ f (halbashá taḥtoná)
Hungarian: fehérnemű (hu)
Irish: éadaí cnis m pl

Italian: biancheria (it) f, lingerie (it) f
Japanese: ランジェリー (ranjerī)
Korean: 란제리 (ranjeri), 세탁소 (ko) (setakso)
Lithuanian: moteriškas apatinis trikotažas
Maltese: ħwejjeġ ta' taħt fini pl
Manx: fo-eaddagh ben m
Persian: زیر پوشی زن‎ (zīr pūši zan)
Polish: bielizna (damska) f, odzież nocna f
Portuguese: lingerie (pt) f, camisola (pt) (Brazil)
Russian: да́мское бельё n (dámskoje belʹjó), же́нское ни́жнее бельё n (žénskoje nížneje belʹjó)
Spanish: ropa blanca f, ropa interior f, ropa íntima f, lencería (es) f
Swedish: damunderkläder pl
Vietnamese: đồ lót
West Frisian: linzjery

See also

negligee
nightie, nighty

Further reading

lingerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From linge +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ʒ.ʁi/

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries)

linen room
lingerie (clothing)

Further reading

“lingerie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

lingerie f (invariable)

lingerie

Portuguese

Etymology

From French lingerie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lɐ̃ʒeˈʁi/

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries)

women's underwear

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lingerie.

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