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)

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• Hyphenation: tod‧dler

Noun

toddler (plural toddlers)

1. 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

• toddler seat
• toddlercon
• toddlerhood
• toddlekins

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