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Anaksunamun:
Just like a post I previously replied to "Coptic word for 'nut'", I have also not found a true term for virgin unrelated to Greek. I don't believe they necessarily had a word for this.
I would assume they just said "a young wo/man, girl/boy" or had some colloquial term like "marriagable girl/boy"  and left it at that without getting into specifics and once the Greek conquest came with Christianity they needed a term for 'virgin' since it's an integral part of Christianity and the 'Virgin Mary'.

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