κοπέλα

Greek

Etymology

Initial meaning ‘maid, stepdaughter’, feminine of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  κόπελος (kópelos, “servant, stepson”), from South Slavic *kopylъ ‘shoot, sprout; bastard’ (compare Serbo-Croatian kȍpile, Bulgarian ко́пеле (kópele)).

Noun

κοπέλα • (kopéla) f (plural κοπέλες)

1. young adult woman
2. girlfriend

Declension

Declension of κοπέλα

	singular	plural
nominative	κοπέλα •	κοπέλες •
genitive	κοπέλας •	—
accusative	κοπέλα •	κοπέλες •
vocative	κοπέλα •	κοπέλες •

Synonyms

• (girlfriend): φίλη f (fíli)
• (girl, girlfriend): κορίτσι n (korítsi), κορασίδα f (korasída) (archaic)