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Girl
English
Etymology
From the Middle English girle or gerle , which means a young person, from the Low German gör and göre , a young male or female, respectively.
Noun
girl (plural girls)
- A female child or female young person (in contrast to boy).
- Any woman, regardless of her age.
- A female servant; a maid.
Usage notes
- Calling a grown woman a "girl" can be considered either a compliment or an insult, depending on context and sensibilities.
Translations
female child
- Arabic: بنت (bint)
- Basque: neska
- Breton: plac'h f -ed plural; note: after article in the singular, this is plac'h rather than blac'h
- Catalan: noia f, nena f (little girl), xiqueta , al.lota f
- CJK Characters: 妞
- Chinese: 女孩儿 , 女孩子 , 姑娘, 女儿
- Danish: pige
- Dutch: meisje n
- Esperanto: knabino
- Faroese: genta f
- Finnish: tyttö
- French: fille f, jeune fille f
- Frisian: famke n
- German: Mädchen n
- Greek (Modern): κορίτσι
- Greek (Ancient): κόρη f
- Guarani: kuñataĩ , mitãkuña
- Hebrew: בחורה (bahura) f, ילדה (yalda) f
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- Hungarian: lány
- Indonesian: anak perempuan
- Interlingua: puera (child)
- Irish: cailín
- Italian: bambina f (child); ragazza f (adolescent)
- Japanese: 女の子 (おんなのこ, onna-no-ko), 少女 (しょうじょ, shoujo)
- Korean: 여자 (yeoja)
- Latin: puella f
- Norwegian (bokmål): jente m/f, pike m
- Norwegian (nynorsk): jente f
- Polish: dziewczyna f
- Portuguese: menina f (child); moça f, rapariga f (adolescent)
- Romanian: fată f, copilă f (child)
- Russian: девочка (devochka), девушка (devushka)
- Slovak: dievča n
- Spanish: niña f, muchacha f, chica f
- Swedish: flicka c, tjej c, jänta c
- Tupinambá: kunhãta'ĩ (child); kunhãmuku (adolescent)
- ': bachgennes f, geneth f
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woman
female servant
The following translations might be out of synch with the definitions above. Would native speakers please check these and then insert them into the appropriate table(s) above.
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