pige

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːə/, [ˈpʰiːə]

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (colloquial) year (of age)

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

   • 2024 July 15, Romain Cantenot, “Ma nouvelle vie d'artiste : la joie des reconvertis du Festival”, in La Provence, page 5:

     C'est un zébulon empaqueté dans la carcasse d'un bonhomme de 53 piges dont une bonne moitié passée sous les yeux du public.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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