English [edit]
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Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish små (“small”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian малый (mályj, “small”).
Adjective [edit]
small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
- A small serving of ice cream.
- A small group.
- He made us all feel small.
- (figuratively) Young, as a child.
- Remember when the children were small?
- (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
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Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from small (adj.)
Translations [edit]
not large
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: i vogël (sq)
- Arabic: صغير (ar) (ṣaġīr)
- Egyptian: صغير (ṣuğɑyyɑr)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
- Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
- Armenian: փոքր (hy) (p’ok’r), մանր (hy) (manr), (colloquial) պուճուր (hy) (puč̣ur)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: pequeñu (ast)
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: kiçik (az)
- Bashkir: бәләкәй (bäläkäy)
- Belarusian: маленькі (be) (malénʹki), малы (be) (mály)
- Bengali: ছোট (bn) (choṭô)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: малък (bg) (málǎk)
- Burmese: သေး (my) (the:), နုပ် (my) (nok)
- Catalan: petit (ca)
- Chamicuro: na'yejchoma
- Chechen: жима (ƶima), кегий (kegij) pl
- Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏗ (chr) (usdi)
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小 (cmn) (xiǎo)
- Min Nan: 細 (nan) (sè, suè)
- Chuvash: пӗчӗк (pĕçĕk)
- Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
- Czech: malý (cs) m
- Dalmatian: pedlo
- Danish: lille (da), liden (da)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: klein (nl), nietig (nl), minuscuul (nl)
- Eshtehardi: خوردیک (xurdik)
- Esperanto: malgranda (eo)
- Estonian: väike (et)
- Ewe: sue
- Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: lítil (fo)
- Finnish: pieni (fi)
- French: petit (fr), minuscule (fr)
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: pequeno (gl)
- Georgian: პატარა (ka) (patara), მცირე (ka) (mc’ire)
- German: klein (de), gering (de)
- Greek: μικρός (el) (mikrós)
- Guernésiais: p'tit
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: liʻiliʻi
- Hebrew: קטן (he) (katán)
- Hindi: छोटा (hi) (choṭā)
- Hungarian: kicsi (hu), kis (hu)
- Icelandic: smár (is), lítill (is)
- Ido: mikra (io)
- Igbo: ńta
- Indonesian: kecil (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: beag (ga)
- Old Irish: bec
- Italian: piccolo (it)
- Japanese: 小さい (ja) (ちいさい, chiisai)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Jèrriais: p'tit
- Kalmyk: бичкн (bichkn)
- Karachay-Balkar: гитче (gitçe)
- Kazakh: кіші (kk) (kişi), кішкене (kk) (kişkene)
- Khakas: кічіг (kíçíg), кічиӌек (kíçicek)
- Khmer: តូច (km) (tooc)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 작은 (ko) (jageun)
- Koryak: тэгʼыйчыгʼын (tehəjčəhən), ныппулюӄин (nəppuĺuqin)
- Kumyk: гиччи (giççi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بچووک (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кичине (ky) (kiçine), кичинекей (ky) (kiçinekey)
- Lao: ນ້ອຽ (lo) (noy)
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- Latgalian: mozs
- Latin: parvus (la), paulus (la)
- Latvian: mazs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: mažas (lt)
- Lojban: cmalu (jbo)
- Luganda: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: мал (mk) (mal) m
- Malay: kecil (ms)
- Manx: beg (gv)
- Mapudungun: pichi, pici
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: pequeinho
- Mongolian: жижиг (mn) (žižig)
- Norwegian: liten (no)
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: pichon (oc), pichòt (oc), petit (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic: малъ (malŭ)
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: وړوکی (ps) (waṛukay), کوچنی (ps) (kučnay)
- Persian: کوچک (fa) (kuček), خرد (fa) (xord), که (fa) (kah)
- Polish: mały (pl)
- Portuguese: pequeno (pt)
- Punjabi: ਛੋੱਟਾ (pa) (chōṭā)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rapa Nui: iti
- Romani: cino
- Romanian: mic (ro)
- Romansch: pitschen (rm)
- Russia Buryat: бишыхан (bišyxan)
- Russian: маленький (ru) (málenʹkij), малый (ru) (mályj)
- Samoan: please add this translation if you can
- Sanskrit: अल्प (sa) (álpa)
- Santali: ᱯᱤᱞᱪᱩ (pilcu)
- Scottish Gaelic: beag (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̑л (sh)
- Roman: mȃl (sh)
- Shor: кичиг (kiçig)
- Sicilian: nicu (scn)
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: කුඩා (si) (kūḍā)
- Slovak: malý (sk)
- Slovene: majhen (sl)
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mały
- Southern Altai: кичинек (kiçinek)
- Spanish: pequeño (es), chico (es)
- Swahili: mdogo (sw)
- Swedish: liten (sv)
- Tagalog: maliit (tl)
- Tajik: хурд (tg) (xurd)
- Tamil: சிறிய் (ta) (ciriya), சிறிய (ta) (ciriya), சிறிய (ta) (ciriya)
- Tatar: кече (tt) (keçe), кечек (tt) (keçek), бәләкәй (tt) (bäläkäy)
- Telugu: చిన్న (te) (cinna)
- Thai: เล็ก (th) (lék)
- Tok Pisin: liklik (tpi)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: küçük (tr)
- Turkmen: kiçi (tk)
- Tuvan: биче (biçe)
- Udmurt: пичи (pići)
- Ukrainian: маленький (uk) (malénʹkyj), малий (uk) (malýj)
- Urdu: چھوٹا (ur) (choṭā)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: kichik (uz)
- Venda: please add this translation if you can
- Venetian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: tiểu (vi), nhỏ (vi), nhỏ nhắn (vi)
- Volapük: smalik (vo)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bach (cy), bychan (cy), mân (cy)
- West Frisian: lyts (fy)
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yakut: кыра (kıra), аччыгый (aççıgıy)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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young
- Arabic: صغير (ar) (ṣaġīr)
- Armenian: փոքր (hy) (p’ok’r), պստիկ (hy) (pstik), փոքրիկ (hy) (p’ok’rik)
- Asturian: pequeñu (ast)
- Belarusian: маленькі (be) (malénʹki), малады (be) (maladý)
- Catalan: petit (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小 (cmn) (xiǎo), 年輕 (cmn), 年轻 (cmn) (niánqīng)
- Czech: malý (cs) m, mladý (cs) m
- Dutch: klein (nl), jong (nl)
- Eshtehardi: جوون (jevōn)
- Esperanto: juna (eo)
- Finnish: pieni (fi), nuori (fi)
- French: petit (fr), jeune (fr)
- Galician: pequeno (gl)
- German: klein (de), jung (de)
- Greek: νέος (el) (néos) m
- Hawaiian: liʻiliʻi
- Hungarian: kicsi (hu)
- Igbo: ọbele
- Italian: piccolo (it), giovane (it)
- Japanese: 小さい (ja) (ちいさい, chiisai), 若い (ja) (わかい, wakai)
- Jèrriais: p'tit
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- Latin: iuvenis (la)
- Macedonian: мал (mk) (mal) m
- Mapudungun: pichi
- Norwegian: liten (no), ung (no)
- Pashto: وړوکی (ps) (waṛukay), کوچنی (ps) (kučnay)
- Persian: جوان (fa) (javân), برنا (fa) (bornâ)
- Polish: mały (pl), młody (pl)
- Portuguese: pequeno (pt), jovem (pt)
- Romanian: mic (ro), tânăr (ro)
- Romansch: giuven (rm)
- Russian: маленький (ru) (málenʹkij), молодой (ru) (molodój)
- Sicilian: nicu (scn), giùvini (scn)
- Spanish: pequeño (es), joven (es)
- Swahili: mdogo (sw)
- Swedish: liten (sv), ung (sv)
- Tamil: இளைய (ta) (ilaya)
- Telugu: చిన్న (te) (chinna)
- Turkish: küçük (tr)
- Ukrainian: маленький (uk) (malénʹkyj), молодий (uk) (molodýj)
- Volapük: yunik (vo)
- Welsh: bach (cy), ieuanc (cy), ifanc (cy)
- West Frisian: lyts (fy), jong (fy)
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minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters
Adverb [edit]
small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) In a small fashion.
- In or into small pieces.
- 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
- Thats[sic] going to go in there. Weve[sic] got some chives small chopped as well.
- (obsolete) To a small extent.
Derived terms [edit]
small (plural smalls)
- Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (UK, in the plural) Underclothes.
Derived terms [edit]
small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
- (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
- Thomas Hardy
- And smalled till she was nought at all.
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Swedish [edit]
small
- past tense of smälla.
