polygyny

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek (deprecated template usage) πολύ (poly) + (deprecated template usage) γυνή (gyne).

Noun

polygyny (plural polygynies)

1. The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives - H. Spencer

Derived terms

• polygynist
• polygynous

Antonyms

• monogamy
• monogyny
• polyandry

Hypernyms

• polygamy

Coordinate terms

• bigamy

Translations

plurality of wives at the same time

• Arabic: تعدد الزوجات m (ta3áddud al-zawjaat)
• Armenian: բազմակնություն (bazmaknutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一夫多妻 (yī fū duō qī), 一夫多妻制 (yī fū duō qī zhì)

• Esperanto: poligamio
• Finnish: monivaimoisuus, polygynia
• French: polygynie (fr) f
• German: Polygynie (de) f
• Hungarian: többnejűség
• Irish: polaigíneas m, il-leannántacht f
• Japanese: 一夫多妻 (ippu-tasai)
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• Macedonian: многуженство n (mnogužénstvo), полигинија f (poligínija)
• Polish: poligynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: poliginia (pt) f
• Russian: многожёнство (ru) n (mnogožónstvo), полигиния (ru) f (poliginíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: многоже́нство n, вишеженство n, полигинија f

  Roman: mnogožénstvo n, višeženstvo n, poligìnija f

• Swedish: månggifte n
• Telugu: బహుభార్యాత్వము (te) (bahubhāryātvamu)