What Spanish adjective sounds similar to "tiene": seems that none (check "diccionario de rimas")
+ no Spanish speaker would say "la mujer" unless s/he'd be speaking about "the" woman, meaning all women while la/el + noun + esta/este is the usual way to insist ("THIS woman")
+ the verb would then be "está" : "to be a .... thing' would be a definition, so it'd be "qué .... cosa la mujer es" (can't be "está" in this case)