Noun
she-wolf (plural she-wolves)
- A female wolf.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 212:In some trepidation the priest and his friend accompanied the wolf to his den, where lay a she-wolf on the point of death.
- (slang, figurative) A predatory woman.
Translations
female wolf
- Albanian: ulkonjë f, ujkonjë (sq) f, ujkë f
- Arabic: ذِئْبَة f (ḏiʔba)
- Egyptian Arabic: ديبة f (dība)
- Aromanian: lupoanji f, lupã f
- Asturian: lloba (ast)
- Bashkir: инә бүре (inə büre)
- Belarusian: ваўчы́ца f (vaŭčýca)
- Breton: bleizez (br) f
- Bulgarian: вълчица f (vǎlčica)
- Catalan: lloba (ca) f
- Czech: vlčice f
- Danish: hunulv c, ulvinde (da) c
- Dutch: wolvin (nl) f
- Esperanto: lupino
- Faroese: úlvatík f
- Finnish: naarassusi
- French: louve (fr) f
- Friulian: love f
- German: Wölfin (de) f
- Greek: λύκαινα (el) f (lýkaina)
- Ancient: λύκαινα f (lúkaina)
- Hebrew: זְאֵבָה f (zeevá, ze’evá)
- Icelandic: úlfynja f, vargynja f, ylgur f or m
- Ido: volfino (io)
- Irish: mac tíre baineann m
- Italian: lupa (it) f
- Kashmiri: رامہٕ ہوٗنؠ (rāmhụ hūn')
- Kazakh: құртқа (qūrtqa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dêlegur (ku) f
- Latin: lupa f
- Ligurian: lôa f
- Lithuanian: vilkė f
- Malay: serigala betina
- Neapolitan: lopa f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ulvinne m or f, hunnulv m, vargtik m or f
- Nynorsk: ulve f, ulvetik f, vargtik f
- Old Norse: ylgr f
- Old Swedish: ylva f
- Persian: مادهگرگ (mâde-gorg)
- Polish: wilczyca (pl) f, wadera (pl) f, basiora (pl) f
- Portuguese: loba (pt)
- Romani: ruvni f
- Romanian: lupoaică (ro) f, lupoaie (ro) f (regional)
- Russian: волчи́ца (ru) f (volčíca)
- Sanskrit: वृकी (sa) f (vṛkī)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вучица f
- Roman: vučica (sh) f
- Slovak: vlčica f
- Spanish: loba (es) f
- Swedish: varginna (sv) c, varghona c, vargtik c, ylva (sv) f (archaic), varghona, honvarg, hon-varg
- Ukrainian: вовчи́ця f (vovčýcja)
- Volapük: jilup (vo), (older term, obsolete) jiludog
- Welsh: bleiddast f
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