puerpera, a woman who has just given birth or who is recovering from childbirth
Etimologie (Engels)
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لخوسه (lohusa), from Greek λεχώνα (lechóna, “a woman who gave birth at most forty days ago”), from Byzantine Greek λεχώνα (lekhṓna), from Ancient Greek λεχώ (lekhṓ).