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English
Etymology
From Middle English deflouren, from Old French desflorer (modern French déflorer), from Late Latin deflōrāre. By surface analysis, de- + flower.
Pronunciation
Verb
deflower (third-person singular simple present deflowers, present participle deflowering, simple past and past participle deflowered)
- (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
- Synonyms: deflorate, (slang) cherry-pop
1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly:But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.
- (transitive) To deprive of flowers.
- (transitive) To deprive of grace and beauty.
Derived terms
Translations
to take the virginity of a woman or girl
- Albanian: zhvirgjëroj (sq)
- Arabic: اِفْتَضَّ (iftaḍḍa), or فَضَّ (faḍḍa) + عُذْرِيّة (ʕuḏriyya) or بَكَارَة (bakāra) vel sim.
- Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: обезчестявам (bg) (obezčestjavam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 開苞/开苞 (zh) (kāibāo), 破瓜 (zh) (pòguā), 破處/破处 (zh) (pòchǔ)
- Czech: odpanit (cs)
- Danish: deflorere
- Dutch: ontmaagden (nl)
- Esperanto: deflori, malvirgigi
- Finnish: viedä neitsyys
- French: déflorer (fr), dépuceler (fr)
- Galician: desflorar (gl), desvirgar (gl)
- German: deflorieren (de), entjungfern (de)
- Greek: διακορεύω (el) (diakorévo), ξεπαρθενιάζω (el) (xepartheniázo)
- Hindi: कुँवारापन (kũvārāpan) or कौमार्य (hi) (kaumārya) &c. + तोड़ना (hi) (toṛnā), कौमार्य भंग करना (kaumārya bhaṅg karnā), नथ उतारना (nath utārnā), चीरा उतारना (cīrā utārnā)
- Hungarian: megbecstelenít (hu)
- Icelandic: afmeyja
- Ido: desvirgigar (io)
- Italian: deflorare (it), sverginare (it)
- Japanese: 破瓜する (ja) (はかする, haka suru)
- Latin: defloro, devirgino
- Luxembourgish: defloréieren
- Macedonian: обесчестува (obesčestuva)
- Polish: rozdziewiczać
- Portuguese: deflorar (pt), desvirginar (pt)
- Romanian: deflora (ro)
- Russian: лиша́ть де́вственности impf (lišátʹ dévstvennosti), лиши́ть де́вственности pf (lišítʹ dévstvennosti), дефлори́ровать (ru) impf or pf (deflorírovatʹ) (medical), растлева́ть (ru) impf (rastlevátʹ), растли́ть (ru) pf (rastlítʹ)
- Spanish: desflorar (es), desvirgar (es), desguabilar (es), desniñar (es)
- Swedish: deflorera
- Telugu: కన్నెరికముతీయు (kannerikamutīyu)
- Turkish: kızlık bozmak
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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