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English
Etymology
From toddle (“to walk unsteadily”) + -er – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child.
Pronunciation
Noun
toddler (plural toddlers)
- A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.
I can't believe Vanessa's baby is now a toddler already!
Derived terms
Translations
young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it
- Arabic: طِفْل دَارِج m (ṭifl dārij)
- Egyptian Arabic: طفل بيحبى m (ṭefl beyéḥbi)
- Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: прохождащо дете n (prohoždašto dete)
- Catalan: nen (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幼兒/幼儿 (zh) (yòu'ér), 小孩 (zh) (xiǎohái), 小孩子 (zh) (xiǎoháizi), 小孩兒/小孩儿 (zh) (xiǎoháir), 学步期儿童
- Czech: batole (cs) n
- Danish: småbarn n
- Dutch: peuter (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: etulo (eo)
- Finnish: taapero (fi)
- French: bambin (fr) m, bambine (fr) f, bébé (fr) m or f
- Galician: meniño (gl) m, meniña (gl) f
- German: Kleinkind (de) n, Hosenmatz (de) m (informally), Knirps (de) m, Dreikäsehoch (de) m (humorous)
- Greek: νήπιο (el) n (nípio)
- Hebrew: פעוט (he) m, זאטוט (he) m
- Hungarian: tipegő (hu)
- Icelandic: smábarn (is) n
- Indonesian: (anak) balita
- Irish: imeachtaí linbh m, lapadán m
- Italian: bambino (it) m, bambina (it) f, piccolo (it) m, piccola (it) f, trotterellino (it) m, trottolino (it) m
- Japanese: 幼児 (ja) (ようじ, yōji), 子供 (ja) (こども, kodomo)
- Korean: 유아(幼兒) (ko) (yua)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: نۆپێچکە (nopêçke), پێڕەوکە (pêrrewke), پێخولە (pêxule)
- Maori: kōhungahunga
- Norwegian: tulle (no)
- Bokmål: småbarn n
- Nynorsk: småbarn n
- Persian: نوپا (fa) (novpâ)
- Polish: maluch (pl) m, maluszek (pl) m
- Portuguese: criancinha f, bebê (pt) m or f
- Romanian: copil mic (ro) m
- Russian: ребёнок (ru) m (rebjónok) (начина́ющий ходи́ть), карапу́з (ru) m (karapúz) (colloquial), то́ддлер m (tóddler) (neologism), ползуно́к (ru) m (polzunók, literally “crawler”), малы́ш (ru) m (malýš), малы́шка (ru) f (malýška)
- Serbo-Croatian: hodonče n
- Spanish: niño (es)
- Swedish: småbarn (sv) n
- Ukrainian: немовля́ (nemovljá), малю́к (maljúk)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: plentyn bach m
- West Frisian: beuker n
- Yoruba: ọmọ àfànítẹ̀ẹ̀tẹ́
- Zulu: ingane (zu) class 9/10
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