•maid, female housekeeper or domestic, typically one with a somewhat elevated position (e.g. one who supervises others or a private teacher) · Miss; a formal address for an unmarried woman, equivalent to Fräulein · Mrs; a formal address for a married woman, equivalent to Frau
köken: A variant of کنیزک (kanizak), from Middle Persian [script needed] (knyck' /kanīzag/), diminutive of [script needed] (knyk' /kanīg/, “maid”) from Proto-Iranian *kanyáH (“small girl; maiden”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanyáH. Cognate with Sanskrit कन्या (kanyā).