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
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.
köken: Attested since 1591. Origin according to Nationalencyklopediens ordbok (NEO) is uncertain. Possibly related to the modern Swedish word flik (“flap, tab”).