toddler

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑdlɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒdlə/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: tod‧dler

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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