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 Middle French verge, from Old French verge, vierge, virge, from a shortening of virgene, from Latin virgō, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française etymological dictionary, a borrowing.
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (hwšk' /hōšag/, “ear of corn, cluster; the star Spica, the constellation Virgo”), borrowed into Old Armenian խոշակ (xošak) and into Arabic حُوشَاكِيّ (ḥūšākiyy, “two-grained wheat”). Note also the mushroom-name غوشْنَه (ġōšna), غوشَنَه (ġōšana) passed into Arabic غَوْشَنَة (ḡawšana, “morel”). Probably from Proto-Iranian *Hawšaka-, a derivative of…
Virgo (constellation of the zodiac containing the bright binary star Spica, in the shape of a set of a virgin) · Virgo (zodiac sign for the virgin, covering August 23 — September 22)
çekim: çoğul бикештер · tamlayan бикештің
köken: Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bēgeč, a diminutive form of *bēg.
virgin (person, especially a female one, who has never had sexual intercourse)
çekim: çoğul neitsyet · tamlayan neitsyen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *näic'üt. Cognates include Karelian neičyt (girl, maiden), Veps neitšud, Votic neitsüd (“daughter-in-law, fiancée”), Estonian neitsi and Livonian neitst. Derived as neits- + -yt, probably from the same root as neito.
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”).
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 室女, composed of 室 (“house”) and 女 (“female”). In Chinese, 室女 as a common noun means unmarried female virgin although this use is dated and is not attested in Vietnamese.