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housewife meaning in Kannada

ಗೃಹಿಣಿ

/ˈhaʊs.waɪf/

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dialectal/ˈhʌzwaɪf/

housewife in Kannada: ಗೃಹಿಣಿ. In English, housewife means a woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.

Kannada words for housewife

ಗೃಹಿಣಿ

English meaning of housewife

  1. noun A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
  2. noun The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
  3. noun A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.
  4. noun A worthless woman; a hussy.

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Questions about housewife in Kannada

What is the meaning of housewife in Kannada?
Housewife in Kannada is ಗೃಹಿಣಿ.
housewife ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Housewife: ಗೃಹಿಣಿ.
What does housewife mean in English?
Housewife means a woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.

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Kannada words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “housewife”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: housewife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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