geisha

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Borrowed from Japanese 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”) + 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”).

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: geishë — a Japanese entertainer
• Arabic: غَيْشَا (ḡayšā) — a Japanese entertainer
• Armenian: գեյշա (geyša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Azerbaijani: geyşa — a Japanese entertainer
• Belarusian: ге́йша (hjéjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Bengali: গিশা (giśa) — a Japanese entertainer
• Bulgarian: ге́йша (géjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Burmese: ဂေးရှား (ge:hra:) — a Japanese entertainer
• Chinese Mandarin: 藝妓 /艺妓 (yìjì) — a Japanese entertainer
• Chinese Mandarin: 藝伎 /艺伎 (yìjì) — a Japanese entertainer
• Czech: gejša — a Japanese entertainer
• Danish: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Dutch: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Esperanto: gejŝo — a Japanese entertainer
• Estonian: geiša — a Japanese entertainer
• Finnish: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Finnish: geiša — a Japanese entertainer
• French: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Georgian: გეიშა (geiša) — a Japanese entertainer
• German: Geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Greek: γκέισα (gkéisa) — a Japanese entertainer
• Hebrew: גֵּיְשָׁה (géysha) — a Japanese entertainer
• Hindi: गीशा (gīśā) — a Japanese entertainer
• Hungarian: gésa — a Japanese entertainer
• Icelandic: geisja — a Japanese entertainer
• Interlingua: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Italian: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Japanese: 芸者 (geisha) — a Japanese entertainer
• Japanese: 芸妓 (geigi) — a Japanese entertainer
• Japanese: 芸子 (geiko) — a Japanese entertainer
• Kazakh: гейша (geişa) — a Japanese entertainer
• Korean: 게이샤 (geisya) — a Japanese entertainer
• Korean: 게이기 (geigi) — a Japanese entertainer
• Kyrgyz: гейша (geyşa) — a Japanese entertainer
• Latvian: geiša — a Japanese entertainer
• Lithuanian: geiša — a Japanese entertainer
• Macedonian: ге́јша (géjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Malay: geisya — a Japanese entertainer
• Malay: ݢيئيشا — a Japanese entertainer
• Mongolian: гейша (gejša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Norwegian Bokmål: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Norwegian Nynorsk: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Persian: گیشا (geyšâ) — a Japanese entertainer
• Polish: gejsza — a Japanese entertainer
• Portuguese: gueixa — a Japanese entertainer
• Romanian: gheișă — a Japanese entertainer
• Russian: ге́йша (géjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Serbo-Croatian: ге̑јша — a Japanese entertainer
• Serbo-Croatian: gȇjša — a Japanese entertainer
• Slovak: gejša — a Japanese entertainer
• Slovene: gejša — a Japanese entertainer
• Swedish: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Tajik: гейша (geyša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Thai: เกอิชา (gee-ì-chaa) — a Japanese entertainer
• Turkish: geyşa — a Japanese entertainer
• Ukrainian: ге́йша (héjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Ukrainian: ґе́йша (géjša) — a Japanese entertainer
• Urdu: گیشا (gīśā) — a Japanese entertainer
• Uzbek: geysha — a Japanese entertainer
• Vietnamese: geisha — a Japanese entertainer
• Vietnamese: nghệ giả — a Japanese entertainer