female vs noona

female and noona both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
female	Yes	Yes	No	No
noona	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, noona is a hyponym of female; that is, noona is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than female:

female (noun)	noona (noun)
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)	used by males to address an older female
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies

female (adjective)	noona (adjective)
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman