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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French courtisane, from Italian cortigiana.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kur.tɘˈza.na/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: kur‧ty‧za‧na
Noun
kurtyzana f
- (dated) courtesan
- Synonyms: faworyta, faworytka, metresa
- Hypernyms: kochanka, utrzymanka
- (dated, literary, euphemistic) prostitute
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostytutka
Declension
Further reading
- kurtyzana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kurtyzana in Polish dictionaries at PWN