feminism

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• UK: /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
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From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895.

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Albanian: feminizëm — the social theory or political movement
• Arabic: حَرَكَة حُقُوق الْمَرْأَة (ḥarakat ḥuqūq al-marʔa) — the social theory or political movement
• Arabic: أُنْثَوِيَّة (ʔunṯawiyya) — the social theory or political movement
• Arabic: نِسْوِيَّة (niswiyya) — the social theory or political movement
• Arabic: فِيمِينِيزْم (fiminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Armenian: ֆեմինիզմ (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Asturian: feminismu — the social theory or political movement
• Azerbaijani: feminizm — the social theory or political movement
• Belarusian: феміні́зм (fjeminízm) — the social theory or political movement
• Belarusian: фэміні́зм (feminízm) — the social theory or political movement
• Bengali: নারীবাদ (naribad) — the social theory or political movement
• Breton: benelouriezh — the social theory or political movement
• Bulgarian: фемини́зъм (feminízǎm) — the social theory or political movement
• Burmese: အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ (a.myui:sa.mi:wada.) — the social theory or political movement
• Catalan: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Chinese Mandarin: 女權主義 /女权主义 (nǚquánzhǔyì) — the social theory or political movement
• Chinese Mandarin: 女性主義 /女性主义 (nǚxìngzhǔyì) — the social theory or political movement
• Chinese Mandarin: 女權擴張論 /女权扩张论 (nǚquán kuòzhānglùn) — the social theory or political movement
• Cornish: benolegerieth — the social theory or political movement
• Czech: feminismus — the social theory or political movement
• Danish: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Dutch: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Esperanto: feminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Estonian: feminism — the social theory or political movement
• Finnish: feminismi — the social theory or political movement
• French: féminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Galician: feminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Georgian: ფემინიზმი (peminizmi) — the social theory or political movement
• German: Feminismus — the social theory or political movement
• Greek: φεμινισμός (feminismós) — the social theory or political movement
• Hebrew: פמיניזם \ פֶמִינִיזְם (feminízm) — the social theory or political movement
• Hindi: नारीवाद (nārīvād) — the social theory or political movement
• Hindi: स्त्रीवाद (strīvād) — the social theory or political movement
• Hindi: महिलावाद (mahilāvād) — the social theory or political movement
• Hungarian: feminizmus — the social theory or political movement
• Icelandic: femínismi — the social theory or political movement
• Ido: feminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Indonesian: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Irish: feimineachas — the social theory or political movement
• Italian: femminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Japanese: フェミニズム (feminizumu) — the social theory or political movement
• Japanese: 女権拡張論 (joken kakuchōron) — the social theory or political movement
• Kazakh: феминизм (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Khmer: ស្ត្រីនិយម (strəyniyɔɔm) — the social theory or political movement
• Korean: 페미니즘 (peminijeum) — the social theory or political movement
• Korean: 여성주의 (yeoseongjuui) — the social theory or political movement
• Kyrgyz: феминизм (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Latin: feminismus — the social theory or political movement
• Latvian: feminisms — the social theory or political movement
• Lithuanian: feminizmas — the social theory or political movement
• Macedonian: фемини́зам (feminízam) — the social theory or political movement
• Malay: faham kewanitaan — the social theory or political movement
• Malay: faham feminis — the social theory or political movement
• Malay: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Manx: feminaght — the social theory or political movement
• Mongolian: феминизм (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Mongolian: ᠹᠧᠮᠢᠨᠢᠰᠮ (fēminism) — the social theory or political movement
• Norwegian Bokmål: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvinnesak — the social theory or political movement
• Norwegian Nynorsk: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Occitan: feminisme — the social theory or political movement
• Persian: فمینیسم — the social theory or political movement
• Polish: feminizm — the social theory or political movement
• Portuguese: feminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Romanian: feminism — the social theory or political movement
• Russian: фемини́зм (feminízm) — the social theory or political movement
• Scottish Gaelic: boireann-dhligheachas — the social theory or political movement
• Serbo-Croatian: феминѝзам — the social theory or political movement
• Serbo-Croatian: feminìzam — the social theory or political movement
• Slovak: feminizmus — the social theory or political movement
• Slovene: feminizem — the social theory or political movement
• Spanish: feminismo — the social theory or political movement
• Swahili: ufeministi — the social theory or political movement
• Swedish: feminism — the social theory or political movement
• Tajik: феминизм (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Tamil: பெண்ணியம் (peṇṇiyam) — the social theory or political movement
• Telugu: స్త్రీవాదం (strīvādaṁ) — the social theory or political movement
• Thai: สตรีนิยม (sà-dtrii-ní-yom) — the social theory or political movement
• Turkish: feminizm — the social theory or political movement
• Turkmen: feminizm — the social theory or political movement
• Ukrainian: феміні́зм (feminízm) — the social theory or political movement
• Urdu: نِسوانِیَّت (nisvāniyyat) — the social theory or political movement
• Urdu: تَحرِیک نِسوانِیَّت (taihrīk-e-nisvāniyyat) — the social theory or political movement
• Urdu: نِسوانِیَّت کی تَحرِیک (nisvāniyyat kī taihrīk) — the social theory or political movement
• Urdu: نسانیت (nisāniyat) — the social theory or political movement
• Uyghur: فېمىنىزم (fëminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Uzbek: feminizm — the social theory or political movement
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa nữ quyền — the social theory or political movement
• Welsh: ffeministiaeth — the social theory or political movement
• Yiddish: פֿעמיניזם (feminizm) — the social theory or political movement
• Yoruba: ìṣègbèfábo — the social theory or political movement