sapling
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Middle English saplyng , seplyng , sapling , equivalent to sap + -ling .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]sapling (plural saplings )
- A young tree, larger than a seedling.
- (figuratively ) A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.
Hyponyms
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]young tree
- Arabic: شَتْلَة f (šatla)
- Armenian: տունկ (hy) (tunk), տնկի (hy) (tnki)
- Assamese: পুলি (puli)
- Bulgarian: фида́нка (bg) f (fidánka)
- Burmese: ပင်ထောင် (my) (panghtaung)
- Catalan: plançó (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: odrostek m, mladý strom , stromek (cs) m
- Dutch: jong boompje
- Esperanto: arbido
- Finnish: taimi (fi)
- French: arbrisseau (fr) m
- Galician: rebolo (gl) m
- German: junger Baum m, Setzling (de) m, Steckling (de) m, Schössling (de) m, Jungbaum m, Fechser (de) m
- Greek: δενδρύλλιο (el) n (dendrýllio)
- Ancient Greek: ὄρπηξ m (órpēx)
- Icelandic: græðlingur (is) m
- Indonesian: bibit (id)
- Ingrian: taimi , hutja
- Irish: crann óg m, buinneán (ga) m
- Italian: virgulto (it) , alberello m
- Japanese: 若木 (ja) (わかぎ, wakagi)
- Latin: arbuscula f
- Macedonian: фиданка f (fidanka)
- Māori: māhuri , kāhō , kōhuri , kōhurihuri
- Middle English: saplyng
- Persian: نهال (fa) (nahâl)
- Romanian: puiet (ro) m
- Russian: де́ревце (ru) n (dérevce), са́женец (ru) m (sáženec)
- Scottish Gaelic: ògan m
- Serbo-Croatian: sadnica (sh) f, drvce (sh) n
- Spanish: pimpollo (es) m, plantón m, virgulto m, plantín (es) m, arbolito (es) m
- Turkish: fidan (tr)
- Turkmen: nahal
- Unami: hìtùkwtët
- Vietnamese: cây nhỏ
youth
- Bulgarian: младеж (bg) m (mladež)
- Dutch: jongeling (nl)
- Finnish: ihmistaimi (fi)
- Galician: mozo (gl) m
- German: grüner Junge m, Grünschnabel (de) m, Jüngling (de) m
- Japanese: 若者 (ja) (わかもの, wakamono)
- Russian: ю́ноша (ru) m (júnoša), юне́ц (ru) m (junéc)
- Scottish Gaelic: ògan m
- Spanish: pimpollo (es) m, jovencito (es) m, joven (es) m, muchacho (es) m
Anagrams
[edit ]Middle English
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]sapling
- alternative form of saplyng
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