woman (adult female human) · wife (married woman, especially in relation to her spouse) · a title of courtesy, equivalent to Mrs/Ms, which has nearly replaced Fräulein in the function of Miss
köken: From Middle High German vrouwe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”). Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bʾnwk'), [Manichaean needed] (bʾnwg /bānūg/), from Old Persian *bānūka-. Akin to Old Armenian բանուկան (banukan), an Iranian borrowing.
a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid. · a girl, a young woman · an unmarried woman (regardless of age)
çekim: çoğul pigor · tamlayan pigas
köken: From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, “noblewoman, beauty”). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.
girl (a female child or adolescent) · girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age) · girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)
çekim: çoğul piger · tamlayan piges
köken: Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).