Parts of speech
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дівчина, gen. дівчини - girl (plural дівчата), girlfriend |
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дівчинка, дівчатко - little girl (diminutive) дівча - girl (diminutive) дівка - girl (colloquial, archaic) |
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дівочий - relating or pertaining to a girl (or maiden); maidenlike дівчачий - girl's, girls' |
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дівоче прізвище - maiden name |
Additional information
1. there are many mentions of this word in folk songs, especially in the diminutive дівчинонька, whenever a sad destiny, or unhappiness in love, is the theme of the song
2. the word дівчина has many diminutive and augmentative forms; only the more common ones are given here
3. Діва Марія - The Virgin Mary
4. дівич-вечір - in the past, a gathering of a bride's female friends on the eve of her wedding, to say goodbye to her maidenhood; a traditional equivalent of a hen night!
Related words
діва - girl, maiden, unmarried girl (poetic, archaic)
дівувати - to be, live as, a girl, before getting married (now archaic)