From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine , from Latin concubīna , equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō ( “ to lie together ” ) ) + feminine suffix -īna . ( US ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn/ Audio ( US ) : ( file ) Audio ( Southern England ) : ( file ) concubine ( plural concubines ) A sexual partner , especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married. Synonyms: mistress , sprunk ; see also Thesaurus: sexual partner , Thesaurus: mistress A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife . Synonyms: cohabitor , cohabitant , domestic partner c. 1591–1592 (date written) , William Shakespeare , “ The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, [ … ] ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] ( First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed [ ward ] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act III, scene ii ] : And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine . c. 1591–1592 (date written) , William Shakespeare , “ The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, [ … ] ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] ( First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed [ ward ] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [ Act III, scene ii ] : And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine . ( chiefly historical ) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem , who is held for sexual service. Synonym: odalisque c. 1587–1588 (date written) , [ Christopher Marlowe ], Tamburlaine the Great. [ … ] The First Part [ … ] , 2nd edition, part 1, London: [ … ] [ R. Robinson for ] Richard Iones, [ … ] , published 1592 , →OCLC ; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973 , →ISBN , Act III, scene iii : He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines : 1611 , The Holy Bible, [ … ] ( King James Version ), London: [ … ] Robert Barker , [ … ] , →OCLC , Judges 20:4–6 : And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine , to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine , and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. c. 1909 , Mark Twain , “Letter VIII”, in Letters from the Earth : Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines . c. 1587–1588 (date written) , [ Christopher Marlowe ], Tamburlaine the Great. [ … ] The First Part [ … ] , 2nd edition, part 1, London: [ … ] [ R. Robinson for ] Richard Iones, [ … ] , published 1592 , →OCLC ; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973 , →ISBN , Act III, scene iii : He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines : 1611 , The Holy Bible, [ … ] ( King James Version ), London: [ … ] Robert Barker , [ … ] , →OCLC , Judges 20:4–6 : And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine , to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine , and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. c. 1909 , Mark Twain , “Letter VIII”, in Letters from the Earth : Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines . Arabic: سُرِّيَة f ( surriya ) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܕܪܘܟܬܐ f ( dərūḵtā ) Armenian: հարճ (hy) ( harč ) Basque: ohaide (eu) Belarusian: нало́жніца f ( nalóžnica ) Bikol: Central Bikol: sambay (bcl) Bulgarian: нало́жница f ( nalóžnica ) Catalan: concubina (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 妾 (zh) ( qiè ) , 姨太太 (zh) ( yítàitài ) , 妃 (zh) ( fēi ) ( imperial concubine ) , 側室 / 侧室 (zh) ( cèshì ) ( archaic ) Czech: konkubína (cs) f Danish: konkubine c Esperanto: kromvirino Finnish: jalkavaimo (fi) French: concubine (fr) f Georgian: Old Georgian: ხარჭი ( xarč̣i ) German: Konkubine (de) f Greek: παλλακίδα (el) f ( pallakída ) Ancient Greek: παλλακίς f ( pallakís ) , παλλακή f ( pallakḗ ) Hebrew: פִּילֶגֶשׁ (he) f ( pilégeš ) Hindi: रखैल (hi) f ( rakhail ) , उपपत्नी f ( uppatnī ) Hungarian: ágyas (hu) Indonesian: selir (id) Irish: bean luí f , bean leapa f Japanese: 妾 (ja) ( めかけ, mekake, しょう, shō ) , めかけ (ja) ( mekake ) , 側室 (ja) ( そくしつ, sokushitsu ) Korean: 첩(妾) (ko) ( cheop ) Latin: paelex f , concubīna f , amāsia f ( Mediaeval ) , amīca f , coniūnx (la) c , pallaca f Macedonian: наложница f ( naložnica ) Manchu: ᠠᠰᡳᡥᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᡵᡤᠠᠨ ( asihan sargan ) , ᡤᡠᠸᡝᠯᡝᡴᡠ ( guweleku ) Manx: colhiabbagh f Norwegian: Bokmål: konkubine m or f Nynorsk: konkubine f Polish: konkubentka f , konkubina (pl) f , nieślubna (pl) f Portuguese: concubina (pt) f , amásia (pt) f , barregã (pt) f Russian: нало́жница (ru) f ( nalóžnica ) , ( kept woman ) содержа́нка (ru) f ( soderžánka ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: конкубина f Latin: konkubina (sh) f Slovak: konkubína (sk) f Spanish: concubina (es) f Swahili: suria (sw) Swedish: konkubin (sv) c Tagalog: kalaguyo , kabit ( derogatory ) Thai: ( royal ) ( พระ ~) สนม (th) ( sà-nǒm ) Ukrainian: нало́жниця f ( nalóžnycja ) Vietnamese: vợ lẻ , ( dated ) nàng hầu (vi) Welsh: gordderch f , gordderchwraig f , cywelyes f Random House Unabridged Dictionary “ concubine ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search . From Middle Dutch concubine , from Middle French concubine , from Old French [Term?] , from Latin concubīna . IPA ( key ) : /ˌkɔŋ.kyˈbi.nə/ Audio : ( file ) Hyphenation: con‧cu‧bi‧ne concubine f ( plural concubines or concubinen , no diminutive , masculine concubaan or concubant ) concubine Synonyms: bijvrouw , bijwijf , bijzit , bijzitster ( Suriname ) female partner in a common-law marriage Borrowed from Latin concubīna . IPA ( key ) : /kɔ̃.ky.bin/ Audio ( France ( Lyon ) ) : ( file ) Audio ( France ( Somain ) ) : ( file ) concubine f ( plural concubines , masculine concubin ) cohabitant , female domestic partner concubine 1857 , Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary [ … ] ‎ [1] , Paris: Michel Lévy Frères : Je suis ta servante et ta concubine ! Tu es mon roi, mon idole! tu es bon! tu es beau! tu es intelligent! tu es fort! (please add an English translation of this quotation) 1857 , Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary [ … ] ‎ [1] , Paris: Michel Lévy Frères : Je suis ta servante et ta concubine ! Tu es mon roi, mon idole! tu es bon! tu es beau! tu es intelligent! tu es fort! (please add an English translation of this quotation) Further reading “ concubine ”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [ Digitized Treasury of the French Language ], 2012 IPA ( key ) : /kon.kuˈbi.ne/ Hyphenation: con‧cu‧bì‧ne plural of concubina vocative singular of concubīnus Alternative forms concubyne , concubyn , concubin From Anglo-Norman concubine , from Latin concubīna . IPA ( key ) : /kɔnkiu̯ˈbiːn(ə)/ concubine ( plural concubines ) A concubine ; a secondary female partner . ( rare ) A illegitimate or unacknowledged partner ( male or female ) English: concubine “ concūbīn(e, n. ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 , retrieved 12 September 2018 . inflection of concubinar : first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱewb- English terms inherited from Middle English English terms derived from Middle English English terms derived from Anglo-Norman English terms derived from Latin English 3-syllable words English terms with IPA pronunciation English terms with audio pronunciation

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