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Definition: Prostitute |
ProstituteNoun1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. Verb1. Sell one's body; exchange sex for money. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prostitute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are in the company of a prostitute, denotes that you will incur the righteous scorn of friends for some ill-mannered conduct. For a young woman to dream of a prostitute, foretells that she will deceive her lover as to her purity or candor. This dream to a married woman brings suspicion of her husband and consequent quarrels. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Multilingual Slang | Austrian (Randsteinpflanze), Dutch (temeier), Esperanto (c^iesulino, publikulino), Hindi (randi), Italian (vacca), Latin (meretrix), Occitan (puta), Quebecois (guidoune , peau , picrelle), Slovak (kurva), Spanish (del rejue, del rejuego, puta, retozona, tana ), Swedish (hora, Victoria), Swiss German (huerä), Yiddish (kurva, kurve ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically oral sex or sexual intercourse, less often anal sex) for money or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. A person selling sexual favors is a prostitute, a type of sex worker.
Overview
A Gay Party in a Brothel
by Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Most prostitutes are women offering their services to men (known as johns (US) or punters (UK)), but male prostitutes offering their services to male customers also exist and are called hustlers or rent boys. Male prostitutes offering services to female customers are comparatively rare and are known as gigolos.
Prostitutes are stigmatized in most societies and religions; their customers are typically stigmatized to a lesser degree.
The term prostitution is sometimes used in the more general meaning of having sex in order to achieve a certain goal different from procreation or pleasure. This includes forms of religious prostitution, in which sex is practiced in compliance with religious precepts. Prostitution in this broader sense is also commonly used in espionage.
Another generalization is using the term or an equivalent for earning well in an unscrupulous degrading manner, e.g. quote whore.
The term pimp is sometimes used figuratively, as in poverty pimp.
Types of Prostitution
Prostitution today occurs in various quite different settings.
In many wealthy countries, illegal immigrants work in prostitution, often against their will. The term used for forcing people into prostitution is "sexual slavery".
- In street prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street.
- Prostitution occurs in some massage parlors and, in Asian countries, in some barber shops, where sexual services may be offered for an additional tip.
- Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution, often confined to special red-light districts in big cities. Other names for brothels include Bordello, Cathouse etc.
- In escort prostitution, the customer calls an agency and the act takes place at the customer's place of residence or, more commonly, at his hotel room.
- Prostitution also takes place in the prostitute's apartment, and in many countries this is the only legal form of prostitution, as will be described below. A hybrid between brothel and apartment prostitution exists in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands: female prostitutes rent tiny one-room apartments in red-light districts and solicit customers from behind windows.
- In Japan, it is not uncommon for middle-class schoolgirls to prostitute themselves, often via "phone clubs" that allow them to anonymously establish contact first by phone. These girls are called Kogal.
In addition to the first world, this also takes place in countries of South Asia such as India and Thailand, where young girls are sometimes sold to brothel owners. In modern day Thailand this is becoming much rarer.
While in both of these societies visiting prostitutes is a common and almost normal behavior, Thailand is also a destination of sex tourists, travellers from rich countries in search of cheap sexual services. Other popular sex tourism destinations are Brazil, the Caribbean, and former eastern bloc countries.
Female prostitutes, especially street prostitutes, are commonly associated with a pimp, a man who lives off the proceeds of several prostitutes and may offer some protection in return. The relationship between pimp and prostitute is often abusive.
Female managers of brothels or escort services are known as madams.
There are other commercial sexual activities that are generally not classified as prostitution. These include acting and modeling for pornographic materials, even if this involves engaging in sexual intercourse; exotic dancing, which is naked, sexually provocative acting (sometimes involving masturbation) without physical contact with the customer; lap dancing, where the dancer may come into contact with the customer in sexually provocative but strictly limited ways; and the services of professional dominants.
Street prostitution
An example of street prostitution.In street prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, usually dressed in skimpy, suggestive clothing. Often the prostitute appears to mind his or her own business and waits for the customer to initiate contact. The act is performed in the customer's car or in a nearby rented room. This is the lowest paid and most dangerous form of prostitution; street prostitutes are often drug addicts and are commonly subjected to violence by both their pimps and customers.
Street prostitutes may or may not have a pimp.
Pimps often target vulnerable women and young girls who have run away from home, initially offering themselves as lovers or father-figures. After introducing their victims to prostitution, they often use beatings and drug addiction to maintain their victim's dependency. Pimps are also commonly low-echelon drug dealers.
Legal Situation
The unadorned act of exchanging money for sex among adults is legal in most countries; the United States (except for seven counties in Nevada), some Muslim and various Communist countries being notable exceptions. At one end of the spectrum, prostitution carries the death penalty in some Muslim countries; at the other end, prostitutes are tax paying and unionized professionals in the Netherlands and brothels are legal and advertising businesses there (however, the age of consent for prostitutes is 18, while in general it is 16). The legal situation in Germany is almost as liberal as in the Netherlands. In most countries, however, it is almost impossible to engage in most forms of prostitution legally because several surrounding activities, such as advertising, solicitation, pimping, or owning, operating or working in a brothel are illegal.
Rules vary which roles in prostitution are illegal: being a prostitute, being a client and/or being a pimp. Sweden outlaws the buying but not the selling of sex.
Law enforcement is typically concentrated against establishments engaged in sexual slavery or owned by organized crime, and against forms of prostitution that generate citizen complaints. In most countries where prostitution is illegal, at least some forms of it are tolerated. It has often been alleged that this situation allows the police to extort money or services from prostitutes in exchange for "looking the other way".
In some jurisdictions, such as Nevada (see: prostitution in Nevada), Switzerland and several Australian states, prostitution is legal but heavily regulated.
Such approaches are taken with the recognition that prostitution is impossible to eliminate in an open society, and thus these societies have chosen to regulate it in ways that reduce the more undesirable aspects of the practice. Goals of such regulations include controlling sexually transmitted disease, reducing sexual slavery, controlling where brothels may operate, as well as other reasons that vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Daily Planet is a brothel in Melbourne, Australia of which since 2003 shares are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Several western countries have recently enacted laws punishing citizens who, as sex-tourists, engage in sex with minors in other countries. These laws are rarely enforced.
Pimping is a sex crime in many jurisdictions. In 1949, the United Nations adopted a convention stating that prostitution is incompatible with human dignity, requiring all signing parties to punish pimps and brothel owners and operators, and to abolish all special treatment or registration of prostitutes. The convention was ratified by 89 countries with the notable exceptions of Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Medical situation
Since prostitutes tend to have large numbers of sexual partners, prostitution has often been associated with the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, like AIDS.
There are a number of typical responses to this problem:
Some think that the first two measures can be counter-productive. Banning prostitution tends to drive it underground, making treatment and monitoring more difficult. Registering prostitutes makes the state complicit in prostitution, effectively making the state into a pimp, and still does not address the behavior of unregistered prostitutes.
- to try to ban prostitution completely
- to introduce a system of registration for prostitutes that mandates health checks and other public health measures
- to try to reach out informally to prostitutes and their clients to encourage the use of barrier contraception and greater interaction with health care
Both of the last two measures can be viewed as harm reduction policies.
Politics
Many countries have sex worker advocacy groups which lobby against criminalization and discrimination of prostitutes. These groups generally oppose Nevada-style regulation and oversight, stating that prostitution should be treated like other professions.
Other groups, often with religious backgrounds, focus on offering women a way out of the world of prostitution while not taking a position on the legal question.
The feminist position towards prostitution is divided: while some feminists theorize prostitution as an act of sexual self-determination, decry discrimination and demand destigmatization and decriminalization, others, exemplified by the American radical feminist and ex-prostitute Andrea Dworkin, consider it to be sexual abuse or even rape. The former group pushed a law reform in Germany, resulting in January 2002 in the recognition of prostitution as a regular profession, making it possible for prostitutes to join the social security and health care system and to form trade unions. The latter faction of feminists was able to implement the remarkable law mentioned above, in Sweden in 1999, when buying sexual favors was outlawed there but selling them was not.
History
Prostitution is often called "the oldest profession in the world".
One of the first forms is sacred prostitution, supposedly practiced among Sumerians. In ancient sources (Herodotus, Thucydides) there are many traces of sacred prostitution, starting perhaps with Babylon, where each woman had to reach, once a year, the sanctuary of Militta (Aphrodites or Nana/Anahita), and there have sex with a foreigner, as a sign of hospitality, for a symbolic price.
A similar type of prostitution was practiced in Cyprus (Paphus) and in Corinth, where the temple counted more than a thousand prostitutes (hierodules), according to Strabo. It was widely in use in Sardinia and in some of the Phoenician cultures, usually in honour of the goddess Astarte (or Ishtar). Presumedly by the Phoenicians, this practice was developed in other ports of the Mediterranean Sea, like in Erice (Sicily), in Locri Epizephiri, Croton, Rossano Vaglio, Sicca Veneria and other towns. Other hypothesis regard Asia Minor, Lydia, Syria and Etruscans.
It was common in Israel too, but some prophets, like Hosea and Ezekiel strongly fought it; it is assumed that it was part of the cults of Canaan, where a significant proportion of prostitutes were male.
In ancient Rome, the priestesses of goddess Vesta had the two duties of always maintaining lit the goddess' fire, and to initiate young boys to sex at the moment of tonsura. The famous Rea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, was one of these. The use of maintaining an always lit fire has been recorded in many coastal temples, and has been ideally connected with the preference (or exclusive licence) granted to sailors to use these services. It has been supposed that these fires should indicate the route to sailors, exactly like modern lighthouses.
In ancient Greek and Roman societies, common prostitutes were independent and sometimes influential women who were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes. Some similarities have been found between the greek Hetaera and the japanese Geisha, complex figures that are perhaps in an intermediate position between prostitution and courtisanerie.
In Greece, Solon instituted the first of Athens' brothels (oik`iskoi) in the 6th century BC, and with the earnings of this business he built a temple dedicated to Aprodites Pandemo (or Qedesh), patron goddess of this commerce. The greek word for prostitute is porne, derived from the verb pernemi (to sell), with the evident modern evolution. The procuring was however severely forbidden.
Each specialised category had its proper name, so there were the chamaitypa`i, working outdoor (lie-down), the perepatetikes who met their customers while walking (and then worked in their houses), the gephyrides, who worked near the bridges. In the 5th century, Ateneo informs us that the price was of 1 obole, a sixth of a dracma and the equivalent of an ordinary worker's day salary. The rare pictures describe that sex was performed on beds with covers and pillows, while triclinia usually didn't have these accessories.
In the Bible there are many stories about common prostitution, with also a case (Tamar) of a false prostitute that commits incest with her father-in-law (Judah). In Jericho, a prostitute named Rahab assisted the Israelite spies. In Jewish legend, she was rewarded for this by later marrying Joshua.
Throughout the Middle Ages, prostitution flourished in Europe and brothels were often operated by municipalities. The outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases in the 16th century and the Reformation led to stricter controls.
In some periods prostitutes had to distinguish themselves by particular signs, sometimes wearing very short hair or no hair at all. Ancient codes regulated in this case the crime of a prostitute that dissimulated her profession. In some cultures, prostitutes were the sole women allowed to sing in public.
In the 18th century, presumedly in Venice, prostitutes started using condoms, made with catgut or cow bowel.
In the United States, prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915. In 1917 the legally defined prostitution district Storyville in New Orleans was closed down by the Federal government over local objections.
Communist countries have often claimed that prostitution does not exist within their borders.
In the 1970s some religious groups were discovered practicing religious prostitution as an instrument to make new adepts.
See also: Go go
Links and References
- The UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
- http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/33.htm Full text
- http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty11a.htm Status of ratifications, reservations and declarations:
- Prostitution Research and Education: Focuses on the harm done to the prostitutes, and ways to reduce it.
- Prostitute's Education Network: American prostitutes' rights organization, aims for decriminalization. Links to sex worker's rights organizations in other countries.
- Piet den Blanken: The Prostitution Pictures, photographs of streetwalkers and brothels around the world.
- 50 Tips for Prostitutes : Helpful hints to The Working Person, by Jahnet de Light, (British)
- World Sex Guide Report Archives
- U.S. DOJ guide to street prostitution
- FBI press release: Twelve pimps sentenced for prostituting children
- John Preston: HUSTLING, A Gentelmen's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution, Masqueade Books, New Jork, 1994
- Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher: O negócio do michê, prostituição viril am Sao Paulo, 1.a edição 1987, editora brasiliense
- Ine Vanwesenbeeck (2001), "Another decade of social scientific work on sex work: A review of research 1990-2000," Annual Review of Sex Research, 12, p. 242
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prostitution."
Synonyms: ProstituteSynonyms: bawd (n), cocotte (n), cyprian (n), fancy woman (n), harlot (n), lady of pleasure (n), sporting lady (n), tart (n), trollop (n), whore (n), woman of the street (n), working girl (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Pervert, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious. |
Impurity | Verb: be impure; Adjective: intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery;n. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prostitute |
| English words defined with "prostitute": Blowess ♦ call girl, Callet, camp follower, criminal record ♦ Flax wench, floozie, floozy ♦ Gamester ♦ Hooker, hustler ♦ Laced mutton, Limmer ♦ magdalen, meretricious ♦ Night walker ♦ Prostituted, Prostituting ♦ Rannel, record, Ribibe ♦ slattern, Soiled dove, street girl, streetwalker ♦ Treddle, turn a trick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prostitute": A BLASTED FELLOW ♦ BRIMSTONE, BUNTER ♦ CASE VROW, COVENT GARDEN NUN, crackwhore, CURTEZAN, CUSTOM-HOUSE GOODS ♦ EASY VIRTUE ♦ FEN ♦ LACED MUTTON, LADY OF EASY VIRTUE ♦ RECEIVER GENERAL ♦ Saophron ♦ TAIL ♦ WASP, WOMAN OF PLEASURE, WOMAN OF THE TOWN. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prostitute": Scortatory. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Prostitute "roping" a man on the street. Peoria, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Meg Mundy, in The Respectful Prostitute. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Jeremy Taylor | Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. |
Prince Philip Edinburgh | I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Aspasia was a being who touched the two extremes of woman, the prostitute goddess |
Imitation of Horace | John Dryden | I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Japan | In one high profile case, in August the Tokyo District Court sentenced a Tokyo High Court judge to a 2-year suspended sentence for patronizing a teenage prostitute. (references) |
Women | El Salvador | The ISDEMU received 286 cases of sexual aggression compared to 364 in 2000. The law does not prohibit a person from working as a prostitute. (references) |
Hong Kong | However, there are laws against activities such as causing or procuring another to be a prostitute, living on the prostitution of others, and keeping a vice establishment. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Turkey | A further article of the Penal Code makes it a crime to send a prostitute from one place to another by force or fraud. (references) |
Turkey | According to the Passport Law, if a prostitute or a trafficker is a foreigner, the person is immediately deported. (references) | |
Brazil | Upon arrival, the women had their passports and money taken from them and were forced to prostitute themselves. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prostitute" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.85% of the time. "Prostitute" is used about 337 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.85% | 323 | 16,021 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.56% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.59% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 337 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "prostitute": become a prostitute ♦ male prostitute ♦ prostitute one's talent ♦ prostitute oneself. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prostitute": prostitute-protagonist, prostitute-related. | |
Containing "prostitute": teen-prostitute-victim. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prostitute"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prostitutë (bawd, call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, night walker, streetwalker, tramp, trollop, trull), shitem (bring, go, keep, move), njeri që shitet, mashkull i përdalë, lavire (drab, strumpet, trull, whore), kurvëroj (whore). (various references) | |
Arabic | تتعهر, رجل يمارس اللواط, المتاجرة بشرفها, المومس (streetwalker, tramp), عاهر بكثرة الفجر, عاهرة (bitch, harlot, hen, hooker, moll, scrubber, strumpet, whore), زانية (adulteress, strumpet), شرموطة (bitch, whore), تاجر بمؤهلا ت, فاجرة (adulteress, harlot, whore), تمارس البغاء, تمارس الزنا, قحبة (harlot, whore), لوطي (gay, homo, homosexual, invert, paederast, pansy, pederast, ponce, poof, queer), متناكة (whore), مومس (baggage, bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, punk, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), زنى (commit adultery, fornicate, prostitution, whore). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тласкам към проституция, проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore), проституирам (hustle), продавам (dispose of, keep, market, sell, sell out, trade off, unload, vend). (various references) | |
Chinese | "女 (hooker). (various references) | |
Czech | prostitutka (broad, call girl, street walker, streetwalker), prostituovat. (various references) | |
Danish | prostitueret. (various references) | |
Dutch | prostitueren. (various references) | |
Esperanto | prostituitino, prostitui, ĉiesulino (hooker, whore). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاحشه شدن , فاحشه (Drab, Harlot, Madem, Mademe, Nag, Pug, Quean, Ribald, Stallion, Townswoman, Tramp, Wench, Whore), برای پول خودراپست کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | prostituoitu, portto (harlot, whore), ilotyttö (streetwalker), huora (harlot, whore). (various references) | |
French | prostituer, prostituée. (various references) | |
German | Dirne (doxy, girl, harlot, lass, strumpet, wench), prostituierte (hooker, prostituted), prostituieren. (various references) | |
Greek | πόρνη (call girl, harlot, hooker, strumpet, tart, trollop, trull, wench, whore), πουτάνα (hooker, tart, trollop, whore). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זו " (drab, harlot, whore). (various references) | |
Hungarian | prostituált (common prostitute, common woman, drab, fille de joie, hooker, pinnace, punter, street girl, strumpet, trollop, whore), örömlány (game). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelacur (courtesan, drab, harlot, whore), cabo (whore). (various references) | |
Italian | prostituta (bawd, courtesan, floozy, harlot, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, wench, whore), prostituire (sell oneself), mondana. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 玄人 (expert, geisha, professional). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばいしょうふ, じょろう (entertainment woman), じょうふ (durable, gentleman, good health, hero, lover, manly person, mistress, robustness, solid, strong, town, town walls, type of linen or cloth, warrior), けい"く (administration, advice, beauty, canyon, courtesan, government, ravine, short period, siren, valley, warning), けいせい (administration, beauty, condition, conduct of state affairs, courtesan, formation, government, prospects, siren, situation, sound of a valley stream, train line Tokyo - Narita, warning), ゆうじょ (ablation shield, assistance, harlot), ゆうく", あいしょう (affinity, compatibility, fondness for singing, grief, love of reading, pet name, sorrow), あそびめ, いちやづま (temporary consort), るま (daruma, tumbling doll), つじぎみ (nightwalker, streetwalker), がいしょう (external wound, foreign businessman, Foreign Minister, out-of-store sales, streetwalker, whore), ばいしゅ"ふ, ばいしゅ"ぷ, ひとよづま (temporary consort), しょうふ (harlot), しょうぎ (camp stool, conference, consultation, folding stool, harlot, Japanese chess), しゅぎょうふ, しらびょうし (dancing girl), くろうと (expert, geisha, professional), プロスティテュート , せ"ぎょうふ. (various references) | |
Korean | 매춘부 (Hooker, streetwalker, Whore). (various references) | |
Manx | strumpag (street-walker, whore), streebagh (courtesan, fancy woman, whore), oainjyr (mistress, whore), jannoo streebagh jeh, ben oainjyragh (whore). (various references) | |
Papiamen | mohé di bida (hooker, whore). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostitutepray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prostituta (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, mort, punk, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench, whore), prostituir (sell). (various references) | |
Romanian | prostituatã (call girl, chippy, doxy, drab, harlot, Moll, strumpet, unfortunate, whore), prostitua, femeie de moravuri uşoare (a woman of loose morals, hussy), corupt (corrupt, depraved, lax, rotten, scrofulous, venal). (various references) | |
Russian | проститутка (call-girl, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, prossie, prossy, scarlet, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tramp, trollop, trull, white slave, whore). (various references) | |
Scottish | strìopach (a prostitute). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prostitutka (call girl, light-o'-love, moll), prostituisati se (bawd, hustle). (various references) | |
Spanish | prostituta (call girl, harlot, hooker, Moll, Molly, night walker, quail, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, whore). (various references) | |
Sranan | yayo-uma (hooker, whore). (various references) | |
Swedish | prostituerad (a woman of easy virtue, fancy woman, harlot), fnask (chippy, hooker, hustler, jot, Moll, pro, scrap, tart, tramp, trifle). (various references) | |
Turkish | orospu (bitch, chippy, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, Moll, painted woman, pro, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trull, whore), kötü kadın (a bad woman, jezebel, scarlet woman), kötü amaçla kullanmak, fahişelik yaptırmak, fahişeliğe itmek, fahişe (bitch, bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, scarlet woman, slag, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, filth, pervert, poison, pollute, subvert, vitiate), торгувати своіми переконаннями, найманець (hireling, mercenary), займатися проституці"ю (whore), безчестити (blot, defame, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour), проститутка. (various references) | |
Welsh | putain (harlot, whore). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kar-kid. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fornicaria, fornicariae, fornicariam, fornicariis, lupis, meretriciis, meretricio, meretrix, meretrix meretricis, prostibuli, prostibulum, prostituas, prostituere, prostituo, -ere, -ui, -utus, prostituta, prostitutis, scorta, scorti, scorto, scortum, vulgatum, vulgo. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | cortigiana. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | putain. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou bebhlwseiV thn qugatera sou ekporneusai authn kai ouk ekporneusei h gh kai h gh plhsqhsetai anomiaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne prostituas filiam tuam et contaminetur terra et impleatur piaculo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ne putt thow thi douyter to bordel, and the loond be defoulid, and it be fulfillid with trespas vnto deth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Thou shalt not pollute thi doughter, that thou woldest maintene her to be an whoore: lest the lade fall to whoredome, ad waxe ful of wekednesse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Do not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to be a harlot: lest the land should fall to lewdness, and the land become full of wickedness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Leviticus Chapter 19, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Dili mo pagbulingan ang imong anak nga babaye, sa pagbuhat kaniya nga bigaon: aron dili mahimong bigaon ang yuta, ug ang yuta malukop sa kadautan. |
| Croatian | Ne obešèašæuj svoje kæeri dajuæi je za javnu bludnicu. Tako se zemlja neæe podati bludnosti niti æe se napuniti pokvarenošæu. |
| Danish | Du må ikke vanhellige din Datter ved at lade hende bedrive Hor, for at ikke Landet skal forfalde til Horeri og fyldes med Utugt. |
| Dutch | Gij zult uw dochter niet ontheiligen, haar ter hoererij houdende; opdat het land niet hoerere, en het land met schandelijke daden vervuld worde. |
| Finnish | Älä häpäise tytärtäsi antamalla hänen tulla portoksi, ettei maa harjoittaisi haureutta ja tulisi täyteen iljettävyyttä. |
| French | Tu ne profaneras point ta fille en la livrant la prostitution, de peur que le pays ne se prostitue et ne se remplisse de crimes. |
| German | Du sollst deine Tochter nicht zur Hurerei halten, daß nicht das Land Hurerei treibe und werde voll Lasters. |
| Hungarian | A te leányodat meg ne becstelenítsd, paráznaságra adván azt; hogy paráznává ne legyen a föld, és be ne teljék a föld fajtalansággal. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan merendahkan derajat anak-anakmu yang perempuan dengan menjadikan mereka pelacur di kuil. Dengan berbuat begitu kamu mencemarkan negerimu, dan perbuatan-perbuatan tak senonoh akan merajalela di situ. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan kamu menghinakan anakmu perempuan dengan menaruh akan dia bagaikan sundal, supaya negeri itu jangan dipenuhi dengan persundalan dan perbuatan yang keji. |
| Italian | Non profanare tua figlia, prostituendola, perché il paese non si dia alla prostituzione e non si riempia di infamie. |
| Maori | Kaua e whakanoatia tau tamahine, e meinga hei wahine kairau; kei riro te whenua i te kairau, a ka ki te whenua i te kino. |
| Norwegian | Du skal ikke vanhellige din datter ved å la henne drive hor, forat ikke landet skal drive hor og bli fullt av skjensel. |
| Portuguese | Não profanarás a tua filha, fazendo-a prostituir-se; para que a terra não se prostitua e não se encha de maldade. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu-yi necinstewti fata, dknd -o sq fie curvq, pentruca nu cumva yara sq ajungq un loc de curvie, wi sq se umple de fqrqdelegi. |
| Russian | оЕ ПУЛЧЕТОСК "ПЮЕТЙ ФЧПЕК, "П ХУЛБС ЕЕ "П 'МХ"Б, ЮФП'Щ ОЕ 'МХ"П"ЕКУФЧПЧБМБ ЪЕНМС Й ОЕ ОБ ПМОЙМБУШ ЪЕНМС ТБЪЧТБФПН. |
| Spanish | "'No profanarás a tu hija, haciendo que ella se prostituya, para que no se prostituya la tierra y se llene de maldad. |
| Swedish | Du skall icke ohelga din dotter med att låta henne bliva en sköka, på det att icke landet må förfalla i skökoväsende och bliva uppfyllt av skändlighet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prostitute": prostituted, prostitutes. (additional references) | |
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"Prostitute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prastitute, prositute, prostitiute, prostitu, prostituate, prostitude, prostitue, prostituta, ptostitute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prostitute" (pronounced prÄ"stutuw't) |
| 6 | -s t u t uw' t | constitute, destitute, institute, reconstitute, restitute, substitute. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: proustite, troutiest. | |
-2 letters: outstrip, pottiest, poutiest, puttiers, roupiest, ruttiest, spottier. | |
-3 letters: outsert, petrous, piteous, posture, potters, pottier, potties, pouters, poutier, prostie, protest, proteus, protist, putters, puttier, putties, reposit, riposte, ropiest, soupier, spitter, spotter, spouter, sputter, stourie, stouter, stretti, stretto, stutter, tipster, tiptoes, titters, tittups, totters, tourist, touters, tritest, troupes, tutties, utopist. | |
-4 letters: erupts, esprit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-t-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: prostituted, prostitutes. | |
+5 letters: autotetraploids, postdivestiture. | |
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