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piga.

a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid.

4 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/²piːɡa/
  1. a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid.

    common-gender · dated
  2. a girl, a young woman

    archaic · common-gender
  3. an unmarried woman (regardless of age)

    common-gender · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, “noblewoman, beauty”). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.