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.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ (“girl, woman”). Cognate with Old Turkic qïz ("girl, young lady, unmarried woman"), Turkish kız, Chuvash хӗр (hĕr), etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai قیز (qyz /qï̄z/), from Proto-Common Turkic *qï̄z, from Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ. Cognate with Uyghur قىز (qiz), Turkmen gȳz, Azerbaijani qız, Turkish kız (“girl”); Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐰕 (q̊²iz /qïz/); etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ (“girl, woman”). Cognate with Turkish kız, Azerbaijani qız, Kazakh қыз (qyz), Bashkir ҡыҙ (qıź), Tatar кыз (qız), and Chuvash хӗр (hĕr).
köken: From Byzantine Greek κορίτσι (korítsi) (also form κορίτσιν (korítsin), diminutive of Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē) + -ίτσι (-ítsi), form of -ίτσιν (-ítsin). Cognate with Mariupol Greek кури́ц (kuríc).
daughter · virgin, maiden · little girl, young lady
köken: ⟨woto₂me₁⟩ → /wotome/ → /otome/ From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE. Compound of おと (oto, cognate with Old Japanese verb 復つ otsu, “to become young”) + 女 (me, “girl, female”). Contrasts with 男 (otoko, “man”, original meaning of “boy”). See also 娘 (musume, “daughter”), 姫 (hime, “princess”).
köken: Attested since 1591. Origin according to Nationalencyklopediens ordbok (NEO) is uncertain. Possibly related to the modern Swedish word flik (“flap, tab”).
maid (female servant) · girl · a girlchild (term of endearment)
çekim: çoğul piiat · tamlayan piian
köken: Uncertain. The word may be a borrowing from Old Norse píka (“girl, lass, virgin”) (compare Swedish piga (“maid, female servant; female employee on a farm”)) or the Norse term might be from Finnic (compare Estonian piiga (“girl”), Karelian piika (“maid; girl (especially Virgin Mary)”), Votic piikõ (“maid, girl”)). Has sometimes been compared with Turkic words (Chuvash пике (pik̬e, “(young) lady,…