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comfort_woman

comfort woman

English

Noun

comfort woman ‎(plural comfort women)

(idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II.

Translations

forced prostitute

Arabic: إِمْرَأَة مِتْعَة f ‎(ʾimraʾa(t) mitʿa), نِسَاء مِتْعَة f pl ‎(nisāʾ mitʿa) (plural)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 慰安婦 (zh), 慰安妇 (zh) ‎(wèi'ānfù)
Esperanto: komfortulino
Finnish: lohtunainen
French: femme de réconfort (fr) f
German: Trostfrau f

Indonesian: wanita penghibur (id)
Japanese: 慰安婦 (ja) ‎(いあんふ, ianfu), 従軍慰安婦 ‎(じゅうぐんいあんふ)
Korean: 위안부 (ko) ‎(wianbu) (慰安婦 (ko)), 일본 군 성 노예 ‎(ilbon-gun seongnoye) (日本軍性奴隸)
Polish: kobieta do towarzystwa f
Portuguese: mulher de conforto f
Romanian: femeie de reconfortare f
Russian: же́нщина для комфо́рта f ‎(žénščina dlja komfórta)

See also

comfort girl
Wikisaurus:prostitute