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.
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)
a lady ((respectful way to refer to a) woman – similar tone to English in different contexts) · a woman (idiomatically, in some contexts, for example women's clothing and women's sports – often paired with herre as a respectful term for a man) · the ladies' room, the ladies' (short for damernas toalett)
female equivalent of pan (“woman”) (specific female person, especially one unknown to the speaker) · female equivalent of pan (“Mrs; miss”) (title before a last name) · female equivalent of pan (“mistress, lady”) (person with power over something)
eş: kobieta
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš Proto-Iranian *gā́wšder. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Iranian *pāna-der. Proto-Slavic *gъpanъ Proto-Slavic *gъpanьji Old Polish pani Polish pani Inherited from Old Polish pani.
köken: Feminine of dominus. If Oscan διομανας (diomanas, gen. sg.) is cognate, one can reconstruct Proto-Italic *domVnā with an uncertain second vowel; see its entry for discussion.