weaning
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English
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]- Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Verb
[edit ]weaning
- present participle and gerund of wean
Noun
[edit ]weaning (countable and uncountable , plural weanings )
- The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment.
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment
- Bulgarian: аблакта́ция f (ablaktácija)
- Catalan: deslletament m
- Dutch: spenen (nl) n
- Finnish: vieroitus (fi)
- French: sevrage (fr) m
- German: Abstillen n, Absetzen n
- Greek: απογαλακτισμός (el) m (apogalaktismós)
- Hebrew: גְּמִילָה (he) f (gmilá)
- Italian: svezzamento (it) m
- Japanese: 卒乳 (ja) m (そつにゅう, sotsunyū)
- Māori: whakamutunga kai ū , whakamutunga whāngote
- Polish: odsadzanie n, odstawienie od piersi n
- Portuguese: ablactação f, desmama (pt) f, desmame (pt)
- Spanish: destete (es) m, ablactación f
- Swedish: avvänjning (sv) c
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- German: (please verify) Entwöhnung f
- Norwegian: (please verify) avvenning c
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