صبيه

From Arabic صَبِيّة‎ (ṣabiyya).

صبيه (ṣabīyi) f (plural صبايا‎ (ṣabāya))

1. a female teenager or a young woman, chiefly unmarried

• Similarly to English girl, the North Levantine word referred originally to an unmarried woman up to circa 20 years of age. With the rise of the average marriage age it may now be significantly stretched, though probably not beyond 30 years.
• The masculine equivalent is شب‎ (šabb), which see for more.
• صبيه is widely interchangeable with بنت‎ (bint), though the latter is broader as it includes little girls and also means “daughter”.