Could someone give me the Greek translation for “girl” or “young lady”? how is it pronounced?
Ancient Greek or modern Greek?
In the ancient Greek…
parthenos = “virgin,” as in,
korasion = “girl,” as in,
Not sure of either pronunciation.
Looking through my Greek New Testament concordance, I find no word that means specifically “young woman.”
rastahomie, that’s Koine. What about the Classical Greek word kore? It means ‘girl’, ‘maiden’, ‘young woman’. Actually, ‘maiden’ is the best word. Most languages have a word for a female who has attained sexual maturity but is unmarried. (German Mädchen, Arabic fatâh, Italian fanciulla, Hindustani laRkî, Classical Greek korê.) The word for that in English is “maiden,” but for some reason it has fallen out of use.
In modern Greek, it’s koritsi. Greek is phonetic, so that’s how it’s pronounced. A sweet thing to call a girl/woman is koriti moo (“my girl”).