comfort woman

English

Etymology

Calque from Japanese 慰(い)安(あ​ん)婦(ふ) (ia​nfu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

comfort woman (plural comfort women)

1. (idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.
   • 1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.

Translations

forced prostitute

• Arabic: إِمْرَأَة مِتْعَة f (ʔimraʔa(t) mitʕa), نِسَاء مِتْعَة f pl (nisāʔ mitʕa) (plural)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慰安婦／慰安妇 (zh) (wèi'ānfù)

• Dutch: troostmeisje (nl) n
• Esperanto: komfortulino
• Finnish: lohtunainen
• French: femme de réconfort (fr) f
• German: Trostfrau f
• Indonesian: wanita penghibur (id)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 慰安婦 (ja) (いあんふ, ianfu), 従軍慰安婦 (じゅうぐんいあんふ, jūgun'ianfu)
• Korean: 위안부(慰安婦) (ko) (wianbu), 일본군 성노예(日本軍性奴隸) (ilbon'gun seongnoye)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kobieta do towarzystwa f
• Portuguese: mulher de conforto f
• Romanian: femeie de reconfortare f
• Russian: же́нщина для комфо́рта f (žénščina dlja komfórta)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• comfort girl
• sex slave
• Thesaurus:prostitute