娘
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- 1.variant of 娘[niáng]
- 1.mother
- 2.young lady
- 3.(coll.) effeminate
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- 1.woman, especially a young girl
- 2.mother; ma
- 3.wife of a particular person
- 4.elderly lady
- 5."The Lady" (an epithet of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu (媽祖 /妈祖 (Māzǔ))
- 6.girly; feminine; effeminate
- 7.(Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 娘 (MC nrjang)
- 8.old-fashioned
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *naŋ): semantic 女 + phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ). Not attested in pre-Tang texts. It may ultimately have been a fusion of 女郎 (MC nrjoX lang, “lady”) (Coblin, 1994). Alternatively, from 女 (OC *naʔ, “woman”) with an attached suffix *-ŋ also found in 卬 (OC *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ, “I for my part”) as against 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”) (Sagart, 1999: 134). However, evidence for this suffix is sparse; Sagart only adduces these two pairs of words. As yet another suggestion, it may be a loan from Old Turkic anaŋ (“your mother”), from Proto-Turkic *ana ~ *eńe (“mother”) (whence Turkish ana and Uyghur ئانا (ana)) and *-iŋ (“second person singular possessive suffix”), (Vovin and McCraw, 2011).
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