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English
Etymology
From Middle English sapplyng, seplyng, sapling, equivalent to sap + -ling.
Pronunciation
Noun
sapling (plural saplings)
- A young tree, bigger than a seedling.
- (figuratively) A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.
Translations
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:
- Mandarin: 幼苗 (zh) (yòumiáo), 樹苗 / 树苗 (zh) (shùmiáo)
- 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: 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)
- Maori: māhuri, kāhō, kōhuri, kōhurihuri
- Middle English: sapplyng
- Persian: نهال (fa) (nahâl)
- 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 (dated), plantín (es) m, arbolito (es) m
- Turkish: fidan (tr)
- Turkmen: nahal
- Vietnamese: cây nhỏ
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
sapling
- Alternative form of sapplyng