köken: From Middle High German juncvrouwe, from Old High German juncvrouwa (“maiden; unmarried noblewoman”). Equivalent to jung + Frau. Compare Danish jomfru, Dutch jonkvrouw (“maiden”), juffrouw (“unmarried young woman; female teacher, nanny”), Yiddish יונגפֿרױ (yungfroy).
köken: Inherited from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, diminutive of Latin domina. Compare Spanish doncella and damisela, Italian donzella and damigella, Portuguese donzela. Doublet of donzelle. See Romanian domnișoară.
aile: demoiselle d'honneur, demoiselle en détresse, mademoiselle
maid, maiden, damsel (girl or an unmarried young woman) · abigail, lady's maid (female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs) · Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis)
çekim: çoğul doncellas
köken: From a Vulgar Latin *domnicella (compare Old Occitan donçela, Portuguese donzela, French demoiselle), based on Latin domina (“lady, mistress”). Doublet of damisela.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese donzela, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, from Latin domina. Compare Old Occitan donçela, Spanish doncella, French demoiselle.
köken: Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of Byzantine Greek κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Proto-Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele); cf. also Albanian kopil (“bastard”), Romanian copilă (“child, girl”)).
unmarried woman · female virgin (female who has not had sexual experience) · woman's virginity
eş: 処子, おとめ, きむすめ, おぼこ, バージン
köken: From Middle Chinese 處女 (MC tsyhoX|tsyhoH nrjoX|nrjoH). /syodyo/ > /syozyo/. Originally referred in Japanese to a woman in a house ([家(いえ)に]処(い)る女(おんな) ie ni iru onna), more specifically to an unmarried woman.
Miss, girl, young lady · a younger sister of one's husband
köken: First attested in the Gukhan hoehwa (國韓會話 / 국한회화), 1895, as Early Modern Korean 아기씨 (Yale: akissi). From 아기 (agi, “baby”) + -씨 (-ssi, status suffix)
köken: Unknown. Related to Karelian impi. SSA also suggests that the word is related to Võro impe', but this word is only attested in Wiedemann's dictionary and appears to be a ghost word.
a maiden, maid; an unmarried young woman or girl (typically nubile, i.e., of marriageable age and social status) · an unmarried young man · a virgin; someone female who has never experienced (penile–vaginal) sexual intercourse
çekim: çoğul virginēs · tamlayan virginis
köken: Uncertain; one hypothesis is that it is related to virga (“young shoot”).