pige

Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːɣə/, [ˈpʰiːi]

pige c (singular definite pigen, plural indefinite piger)

1. girl (a female child or adolescent)

   Synonyms: mø (archaic), tøs (hypocoristic or derogatory)

2. (embellishing or patronizing) girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age)

   Synonym: kvinde

3. girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)

   Synonyms: dame, kæreste

4. girl, daughter (a female person one is the parent of)

   Synonym: datter

5. girl, maid (a woman serving in a private household)

   Synonym: stuepige

• → Icelandic: pía
• Norwegian Bokmål: pike

• “pige” in Den Danske Ordbog
• pige on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /piʒ/

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pige

1. inflection of piger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• pigé

pige f (plural piges)

1. measure
   • 1865, Lorédan Larchey, Les Excentricités du langage, page 249:

     La pige est chez les ouvriers un morceau de bois donnant la longueur indiquée par le plan.

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2. (colloquial) year (of age)

   du haut de ses trente piges ― in his/her thirties

3. (colloquial) year (period of time in general)

• “pige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pigē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pigeō