toddler

English

Etymology

toddle (“walk unsteadily”) +‎ -er (“(agent)”) – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child.

Pronunciation

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Noun

toddler (plural toddlers)

1. A young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old.

Derived terms

• toddlercon
• toddlerhood

Translations

young human child

• Arabic: طِفْل فِي أَوَّل مِشْيَة‎ m (ṭifl fī ʾawwal mišya)

  Egyptian Arabic: طفل بيحبى‎ m (ṭefl beyéḥbi)

• Catalan: nen (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幼兒 (zh), 幼儿 (zh) (yòu'ér), 小孩 (zh) (xiǎohái), 小孩子 (zh) (xiǎoháizi), 小孩兒 (zh), 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), napero, ipana, paapero
• French: bambin (fr) m, bambine (fr) f
• Galician: meniño (gl) m, meniña (gl) f
• German: Kleinkind (de) n
• Greek: νήπιο (el) n (nípio)
• Hebrew: פעוט‎ (he) m, זאטוט‎ (he) m
• Hungarian: tipegő (hu)
• Icelandic: smábarn (is) n
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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), дитя́ (ru) n (ditjá), ползуно́к (ru) m (polzunók), карапу́з (ru) m (karapúz) (colloquial)
• Spanish: niño (es)
• Swedish: småbarn (sv) n
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: plentyn bach m
• West Frisian: beuker n
• Zulu: ingane class 9/10