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English
A leaf Leaves (plural form)
Etymology
Proto-West Germanic *laub English leaf
From Middle English lef leef Old English lēaf Proto-West Germanic *laub Proto-Germanic *laubą ( “ leaf ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m , from *lewbʰ- ( “ to cut off ” ) .[ 1]
Cognates
Cognate with Scots leaf ( “ leaf ” ) , Yola laafe ( “ leaf ” ) , North Frisian luuf ( “ leaf ” ) , Saterland Frisian Loof ( “ leaf ” ) , West Frisian leaf ( “ leaf ” ) , Cimbrian loap ( “ leaf ” ) , Dutch loof ( “ foliage ” ) , German Laub ( “ leaves ” ) , German Low German Loov ( “ leaf ” ) , Luxembourgish Laf ( “ foliage, leaves ” ) , Mòcheno lap ( “ leaf ” ) , Vilamovian łaub łaup łojp ( “ leaf ” ) , Danish Norwegian Bokmål løv ( “ leaf ” ) , Faroese leyv ( “ leaf ” ) , Icelandic lauf ( “ leaf ” ) , Norwegian Nynorsk lauv ( “ leaf ” ) , Swedish löv ( “ leaf ” ) , Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 ( laufs , “ leaf ” ) ; also Irish luibh ( “ herb, plant ” ) , Latin liber ( “ bast; book ” ) , Albanian labë ( “ rind ” ) , Lithuanian lúobas ( “ bark; bast ” ) , Polish łub ( “ bark ” ) , Russian луб ( lub , “ bast ” ) .
( Internet slang: Canadian ) : In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.
Pronunciation
Noun
leaf (countable and uncountable plural leaves
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants .
2013 William E. Conner , “An Acoustic Arms Race ”, in American Scientist 101 , number 3, pages 206–7 :Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
( botany ) foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
( publishing , bookbinding , advertising ) pages , one on each face of the leaf).
Hyponyms: flyleaf looseleaf 1900 Profitable Advertising , volume 10 , number 2, page 893 :Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Synonyms: folio folium gold leaf
One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal , typically made of spring steel , that make up a leaf spring .
1931 Ion L. Idriess , Lasseter's Last Ride 52 :Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]
( in the plural ) Tea leaves .A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
( plural leaves leafs ) panel , e.g. of a bridge or door , originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
Hyponym: doorleaf Meronym: stile The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
1914 Department of Bridges, City of New York, Report , page 90 :The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.
1992 July 21, William R. Kennedy, John M. Kennedy, Power mine door system [1] US Patent 5,222,838 :It will be noted that the pivotal mounting of the cylinders is such that the cylinders have their greatest leverage (i.e., exert the greatest door-opening force) when the door leafs 24, 28 are closed because the cylinders are generally perpendicular to the closed leafs . This is desirable because the load on the leafs is the greatest when they are closed due to air pressure. As the leafs begin to open and this air pressure decreases, the opening force exerted by the cylinders on the door leafs decreases and the opening speed of the leafs increases.
1993 Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session , Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office , →ISBN 136 :THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE OWNERS/OPERATORS OF BASCULE BRIDGES TO INSTALL CAUTION LIGHTS AND DAYLIGHT MARKINGS AT ELEVATION POINTS ON BRIDGE LEAFS WHERE THEY PROTRUDE OVER NAVIGABLE CHANNELS TO IDEN TIFY[sic TO MARINERS THE POINT AT WHICH FULL SKYWARD CHANNEL CLEARANCE IS NOT AVAILABLE TO TRANSITING VESSELS: THE LIGHTS SHOULD ACTIVATE WHEN THE BRIDGELEAFS ARE IN THE NORMAL FULLY OPEN POSITION. [ …] THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE THAT BRIDGE OWNERS/OPERATORS PROVIDE IN BASCULE BRIDGE PERMIT APPLICATIONS THE ANGLE OF THE BRIDGELEAF(S) . THE MAXIMUM VERTICAL CLEARANCE AT THE FENDERS AND AT THE BRIDGELEAF ENDS, AND THE EXTENT OF HORIZONTAL CHANNEL CLEARANCE OVER WHICH FULL SKYWARD CLEARANCE IS AVAILABLE WHEN THE BRIDGE LEAFS ARE IN THE FULLY OPEN POSITION. 1993 Realty and Building , page 20 :The four separate segments of the movable bridge span, known as bridge leafs , were alternately rehabilitated while maintaining upper-level roadway and pedestrian traffic on one-half of the bridge and waterway traffic on one-half of the river channel.
1993 The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events , Grolier , →ISBN →ISSN →LCCN 224 :The hydraulic system lifts and rotates two 413-ft (126-m) bridge leafs , each weighing 7,500 tons, in just four minutes.
1996 Chicago in and Around the Loop: Walking Tours of Architecture and History , McGraw-Hill , →ISBN 150 :Note the Art Deco-style sculptures on the wall of the bridge house showing a ship passing under the raised bridge leafs .
2010 Bridges to Justice: Love, Murder, & Politics in Chicago , iUniverse , →ISBN 55 :Like I’ve said, John, you’ve got to get the two bridge leafs to come down very slowly to a complete stop in order to trigger the tongue locks. This is what holds the two leafs of the bridge firmly in place. Otherwise, the bridge leafs will start bouncing, and once they start bouncing, you’ll never stop them from goin’ straight up in the air.
( computing , mathematics ) tree , a node that has no descendants .
2011 Programming Interviews Exposed :The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf ).
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig , leaf fat .
One of the teeth of a pinion , especially when small.
( slang , uncountable ) Cannabis .( 4chan slang , Internet slang , humorous , sometimes pejorative, plural leafs ) Canadian person.( programming , x86 ) program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor .
2024 May 7, Perry Yuan, “[ PATCH 00/11] AMD Pstate Driver Fixes and Improvements”, in Kernel Lore [2] the original on 22 October 2026 :X86_FEATURE_HETERO_CORE_TOPOLOGY is used to identify whether the processor support heterogeneous core type by reading CPUID leaf Fn_0x80000026_EAX and bit 30. if the bit is set as one, then amd_pstate driver will check EBX 30:28 bits to get the core type.
Synonyms
Derived terms
alderleaf Juneberry (Amelanchier alnifolia almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth , almond tree leaf skeletonizer moth (Aglaope infausta aluminium leaf aluminum leaf angle leaf apple bud and leaf mite apple leaf midge apple leaf miner (Lyonetia clerkella arrowleaf ash-gray leaf bug ash-leaf aspen leaf blotch miner moth autumn leaf auxiliary leaf avocado leaf babyleaf banana leaf baroclinic leaf bay leaf bay-leaf beautyleaf beech leaf disease beleaf belladona leaf betel leaf bible leaf (Tanacetum balsamita big-leaf bigleaf bitter leaf , bitter-leaf , bitterleaf (Vernonia black currant leaf midge (Dasineura tetensi blank leaf bloodleaf (Iresine spp. )blue-sided leaf frog blunt-leaf heath (Epacris obtusifolia borrow a leaf out of someone's book branch-leaf brass leaf brightleaf broad-leaf broadleaf bronze leaf brown leaf brown leaf spot bumleaf butterleaf California single-leaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla subsp. californiarum call leaf cedar leaf oil cereal leaf beetle Chinese leaf clover-leaf cloverleaf coffee leaf rust cold leaf come into leaf compound leaf copper-leaf copperleaf cord-leaf corn leaf aphid crinkle leaf curl-leaf curly-leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus curry leaf curry-leaf curry-leaf tree cutleaf cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata cutleaf groundcherry (Physalis angulata daisyleaf grape fern (Botrychium matricariifolium dead leaf deadnettle leaf beetle deerfoot vanilla leaf deleaf diamond-leaf laurel (Auranticarpa rhombifolia digitalis leaf dining leaf disleaf disleave dock leaf double leaf double-leaf Double Leaf Society drop-leaf dropleaf drop-leaf table dusky leaf monkey Dutch leaf dwarf red-leaf plum earleaf nightshade (Solanum mauritianum eggleaf empty leaf end leaf end-leaf endleaf eumusae leaf spot facsimile leaf falling leaf fall of the leaf fanleaf featherleaf fern-leaf fiddleleaf fig-leaf figleaf fig leaf fineleaf fine leaf jam five-leafed fiveleaf five-leaf five-leaf grass flag leaf flannel-leaf flannel leaf flatleaf flat-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum floral leaf Florence leaf fly-leaf flyleaf foliage leaf foliation leaf four-leaf four-leaf clover four-lined leaf bug glaucous-leaf oak (Quercus glauca global Nagano leaf golden leaf tree (Chrysophyllum cainito gold leaf gold-leaf electrometer gold-leaf electroscope gold-leaf galvanoscope grandleaf seagrape (Coccoloba pubescens grape-leaf begonia gray-leaf pine , grey-leaf pine green leaf lettuce halberd-leaf rosemallow (Hibiscus laevis Hattie leaf hawkweed-leaf saxifrage , hawkweed-leaved saxifrage (Saxifraga hieraciifolia Micranthes hieracifolia healing leaf heart-leaf heartleaf hollow leaf holly-leaf cherry , hollyleafcherry , holly-leaved cherry (Prunus ilicifolia Hume's leaf warbler in full leaf in leaf interleaf interleave in the leaf ivy-leaf Japanese bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia obovata Japanese leaf jelly leaf jellyleaf lace leaf lace-leaf laceleaf lace-leaf plant Lamotte's roundleaf bat (Hipposideros lamottei lantern leaves largeleaf large leaf-eating ladybird lattice leaf latticeleaf lattice leaf plant laurel-leaf blade laurel-leaf point leafage leaf alcohol leaf aldehyde leaf aphid leaf area duration leaf-area index leaf arrowhead leaf-arrowhead leaf axil leaf-base leafbase leafbearing leaf-bearing leaf-beaten leaf-bed leaf beet leaf beetle , leaf-beetle (Chrysomelidae leafbird (Chloropsis leaf-birth leaf blade leaf blight leaf blister leaf blotch leaf blower leaf-blower leafblowing leaf-book leaf-brass leaf bridge leaf-bridge leaf brown leaf bud leaf-bud leafbud leaf bug , leaf-bug (Miridae leaf-bundl leaf butterfly , leaf-butterfly (Charaxinae leaf cactus (Epiphyllum Pereskia leaf-canopy leaf cast leafcasting leaf casting leaf celery leaf chafer (Rutelinae leaf class leaf-climber leaf-climbing leaf coral (Panona cactus leaf crumpler leaf-crumpler leafcup (Smallanthus uvedalia leaf-curling plum aphid leaf curling plum aphid (Brachycaudus helichrysi leaf-curling spider leaf curl leaf-curl leaf-cushion leaf-cut leafcutter leaf-cutter ant leaf-cutter bee leaf cutter leaf-cutter leaf-cutting ant leaf-cutting bee leaf-cutting leafcutting leaf-cycle leaf deer (Muntiacus putaoensis leaf disease leaf-disk test leafdom leaf door leaf-drift leaf-eared leafeater leafed leafen leafen gold leafer leafery leafet leaffall leaf-fall leaf fat leaf-fat leaf-feeder leaf-finch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula leaffish (Polycentridae leaf flea leaf-flea leafflower leaf-folder leaf-foot bug , leaf-footed bug (Coreidae leaf-footed leaf form leaf frog , leaf-frog (Hylidae leafful leaf gap leaf-gap leaf-gate leaf gelatine leaf-gilding leaf-gold leaf green leaf-green leaf hopper , leaf-hopper , leafhopper (Cicadellidae leaf-house leaf-hut leaf index leafing leaf initial leaf insect , leaf-insect (Phylliidae leaf insertion leafit leaf-joy leaf lard leaf-lard leafless leaflet leaf lettuce leaf lichen leaf-like leaflike leafling leaflitter leaf litter leaf louse leaf-louse leaflove leaflute leaf-mass leafmeal leaf metal leaf-metal leaf-miner fly leaf miner , leaf-miner (Lepidoptera Symphyta Diptera leaf-mining caterpillar leaf mold leaf-mold leaf mould leaf-mould leaf monkey , leaf-monkey (Colobinae leaf-mosaic leaf mottle yellows leaf muntjac (Muntiacus putaoensis leaf mustard leaf nematode (Aphelenchoididae leafness leaf-netting leaf node leaf-nosed leaf-nosed bat leaf-notcher leaf notcher (Artipus floridanus leaf of heddles leaf-opposed leaf out Leafpad leaf peeper leaf-peeper leaf peeping leaf-peeping leafpile leaf-plant leaf-plate leaf-platter leaf primordium leaf protein leaf protein concentrate leaf-raking leaf-red Leaf River leaf roller leaf-roller leaf-rolling leafroll leaf roll leaf-roll leaf-rosette leaf rust leaf-rust leaf scald leaf-scale leaf scar leaf-scar leaf scorch leafscraper leafset leaf sewer leaf shape leaf-shaped leaf sheath leaf-sheath leaf-shedding leaf sheep leaf shelter leaf shutter leaf-sickness leaf sight leaf-sight leaf-silver leaf site leaf-skin leaf smut leaf soil leaf-soil leafsome leafspace leaf-spine leafspot leaf spot leaf-spot leaf spring leaf-spring leaf-sprung leaf stalk leaf-stalk leafstalk leaf-storm leaf storm leaf-table leaf-tailed leaf-tailed gecko leaf tea leaf-teeth leaf-tendril leaf-thorn leaf tier leaf-tin leaf tobacco leaf-toed gecko leaf topology leaftosser leaf trace leaf-trace leaf truck leaf-turner leaf turtle leaf tyer leafule leaf valve leaf-valve leaf vegetable leaf warbler leaf-warbler leaf wasp , leaf-wasp (Trigonalidae leafwing leafwise leaf-work leafwork leaf-worm leafworm leafy leather leaf leatherleaf leave leaved leaveless leavish leavy letterleaf lettuce leaf linkleaf cactus lion's leaf littleleaf disease little-leaf fig little-leaf linden littleleaf little leaf littleleaf snowberry liver-leaf liverleaf local Nagano leaf longleaf long-leafed pine , long-leaf pine , longleaf pine , long-leaved pine (Pinus palustris loose-leaf looseleaf lotus leaf wrap love leaf lower leaf zone Lucerne leafweevil Malabar leaf Malayan roundleaf bat mantle leaf maple leaf maple-leaf maximum leaf spanning tree metal leaf Mexican flame leaf , Mexican flameleaf mid-leaf monoleaf multileaf multileaf collimator myriad-leaf nanoleaf narrowleaf narrow-leaf ash narrow-leaf cattail narrowleaf hawkweed narrow-leaf penstemon needleleaf needle-leaf tree netleaf netleaf hackberry nettle-leaf giant hyssop nettleleaf goosefoot , nettle-leaved goosefoot nettle-leaf horsemint nettle-leaf porterweed new leaf nonleaf northern corn-leaf blight northern leaf blight noseleaf nose leaf nose-leaf Novikov closed leaf theorem oak leaf oakleaf oblongleaf Juneberry one-leaf orange-leaf orbiculate leaf oriental leaf overleaf painted leaf painted-leaf begonia paint leaf paleleaf palladium leaf Pallas's leaf warbler palm-leaf palm-leaf manuscript palm-leaf snail parasol leaf tree parkleaves patch-leaf peachleaf peach leaf curl peachleaf willow pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri pear leaf blister moth pear leaf-curling midge , pear leaf midge pine leaf scale plain leaf warbler platinum leaf pointed-leaf maple potato leaf roll virus , potato leafroll virus preliminary leaf primary leaf proof leaf purple-faced leaf monkey purpleleaf purple leaf sand cherry quarto leaf quiverleaf raffle leaf ragleaf rain leaf rare as a four-leaf clover red leaf red leaf lettuce redleaf rose red raspberry leaf rigid-leaf poison root leaf root-leaf rose-leaf rough leaf rough-leaf false vervain roundleaf roundleaf plantain roundleaf snowberry sacred pepper leaf satanic leaf-tailed gecko satin leaf , satinleaf saucer-leaf saw-leaf herb scale leaf seed leaf seed-leaf seminal leaf Semon's leaf-nosed bat sesame leaf shake like a leaf shin leaf shin-leaf shinleaf shinyleaf shortleaf short-leaf pine , shortleaf pine , shortleaf yellow pine (Pinus echinata silverleaf nightshade silver-leaf nightshade silver leaf silver-leaf silver leaf tree silverleaf whitefly simple leaf single-leaf pine single-leaf pinyon singleleaf single-leaf skeleton leaf sleek-leaf softleaf southern leaf-tailed gecko spade leaf specific leaf area spiny-leaf podocarp split-leaf philodendron spoon-leafed sundew spoonleaf yucca spring leaf starleaf star-leaf begonia stem-and-leaf plot stem-and-leaf stem and leaf stem leaf stiff-leaf stiff-leaf goldenrod strawberry leaf stripleaf strip-leaf subleaf sugarleaf Sumatra leaf sweet leaf sweetleaf symplectic leaf take a leaf out of someone's book tansy leaf aster tea leaf paradox tea leaf tea-leaf tealeaf tendu leaf thickleaf thoroughleaf thousand-leaf threadleaf groundsel three-leaf tie-a-leaf title leaf tooling leaf toothleaf triple nose-leaf bat true leaf true-leaf trumpet-leaf turn a new leaf turn down a leaf turn over a new leaf turn over the next leaf turn the leaf twill of four leaves twill of three leaves twinleaf onion twinleaf twin-leaf two-leaf umbrella leaf umbrella-leaf underleaf unit leaf rate unleaf unleave upper leaf zone vanilla leaf velvet-leaf velvetleaf venous leaf vine-leaf vine leaf walking leaf, walking-leaf (Phylliidae waterleaf water leaf water-leaf wavyleaf waxleaf privet way of the leaf Whyteleafe willowleaf pear willow-leaf point windowleaf yellow-leaf sickle pine
Descendants
Translations
part of a plant
Abaga: azag̶aʔe
Abkhaz: абӷьы ( abğʲə )
Acehnese: ôn
Afar: dalaa
Afrikaans: blaar (af)
Ainu: ハㇺ ( ham )
Aklanon: dahon
Albanian: gjethe (sq) f pl
Altai:
Southern Altai: јалбырак ( ǰalbïrak )
Amami Ōshima:
Northern Amami Ōshima: 葉 ( はー, hā )
Southern Amami Ōshima: 葉 ( はー, hā )
Amharic: ቅጠል ( ḳəṭäl )
Anus: dau
Arabic: وَرَقَة f ( waraqa )
Hijazi Arabic: وَرَقة f ( waraga )
Aragonese: fuella (an) f
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܛܪܦܐ m ( ṭarpā )
Argobba: ቅጠል ( qəțäl )
Armenian: տերեւ (hy) ( terew )
Aromanian: frãndzã f frundzã f
Ashkun: pār
Asi: rahon dahon
Assamese: পাত n ( pat )
Asturian: fueya (ast) f
Atayal: abau
Aymara: laphi (ay)
Azerbaijani: yarpaq (az)
Bahnar: hla
Balinese: don
Bangi: zasa
Bashkir: япраҡ ( yapraq )
Basque: hosto (eu) , orri (eu)
Belarusian: ліст m ( list )
Bengali: পাতা (bn) ( pata )
Bhojpuri: पान ( pān )
Bole: kumi rewe
Breton: delienn (br) f
Buginese: daung
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m ( list ) , листо́ (bg) n ( listó )
Burmese: အရွက် (my) ( a.rwak )
Buryat: набша ( nabša ) , набшаһан ( nabšahan ) , намаа ( namaa )
Butuanon: dahon
Catalan: fulla (ca) f
Cebuano: dahon
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⴼⵔ m ( ifr )
Cham:
Eastern Cham: ꨈꨶꨮꩉ ꨨꨤꨩ
Chamicuro: chijpana
Chavacano: ohas
Chechen: гӏа ( ğa )
Cherokee: ᎤᎦᎶᎬ ( ugalogv )
Chichewa: tsamba
Chinese:
Cantonese: 葉 / 叶 (yue) ( jip6 ) , 葉子 / 叶子 ( jip6 zi2 )
Dungan: еезы ( iəiəzɨ ) , еер ( iəiər ) , езы ( iəzɨ )
Eastern Min: 箬箬 ( niŏh-niŏh )
Gan: 葉子 / 叶子 ( iet6 zi / iet7 zi )
Hakka: 葉 / 叶 ( ya̍p )
Hokkien: 葉 / 叶 (zh-min-nan) ( ia̍p ) , 葉仔 / 叶仔 (zh-min-nan) ( hio̍h-á )
Jin: 葉子 / 叶子 ( ieh4 zeh )
Mandarin: 葉 / 叶 (zh) ( yè ) , 葉子 / 叶子 (zh) ( yèzi )
Northern Min: 箬 ( niò̤ ) , 箬仔 ( niò̤-ciě )
Wu: 葉 / 叶 ( 8 yiq) , 葉子 / 叶子
Xiang: 葉子 / 叶子 ( ie6 zr )
Chinook Jargon: stik-tipiʔ stik-tipsu tipsu
Chuvash: ҫулҫӑ ( śulś̬ă )
Circassian:
West Circassian: тхьэпкӏэ ( tḥɛpkʼɛ )
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: wani class 11 /6
Ngazidja Comorian: wani class 11 /10
Cornish: del ( collective ) , delen f
Corsican: foglia (co) f
Cree:
Plains Cree: nīpiy
Crimean Tatar: yapraq
Czech: list (cs) m
Dalmatian: fualja f
Danish: blad (da) n løv n
Dongxiang: lachin
Drung: vng'lvp
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Egyptian: (gꜣbt
Enga: yoko
Erzya: лопа ( lopa )
Esperanto: folio (eo)
Estonian: leht (et)
Even: эбдэнрэ ( əʙdənrə )
Evenki: авданна ( awdanna )
Ewe: aŋgba
Extremaduran: oja f
Faroese: blað n
Fijian: drau (fj)
Finnish: lehti (fi)
Fon: ama
Franco-Provençal: fôlye f
French: feuille (fr) f Old French: fueille f
Frisian:
Saterland Frisian: Blääd n
West Frisian: blêd
Friulian: fuee f
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤸𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮𞤤
Latin: haako kaakol
Fuyug: hutu
Galician: folla (gl) f
Ge'ez: ቈጽል ( ḳʷäṣl )
Georgian: ფოთოლი (ka) ( potoli )
German: Blatt (de) n Laubblatt (de) n Alemannic German: Blatt n
Central Franconian: Blatt n
Gilaki: ولگ
Greek: φύλλο (el) n ( fýllo )
Ancient Greek: φύλλον n ( phúllon ) , πέταλον n ( pétalon )
Greenlandic: pilu
Guarani:
Mbya Guarani: ogue
Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify ) togue (gn)
Gujarati: પાન f ( pān ) , પર્ણ n ( parṇ ) , પાંદડું n ( pā̃dḍũ ) , દલ ( dal )
Gwich'in: ch'at'an
Haitian Creole: fèy
Hausa: ganye (ha) , warƙa
Hawaiian: lau
Hebrew: עָלֶה (he) m ( alé )
Higaonon: dahon
Hiligaynon: dahon
Hindi: पत्ता (hi) m ( pattā ) , पत्ती (hi) f ( pattī )
Hiri Motu: raurau
Hmong:
White Hmong: nplooj
Hopi: nàapi
Hungarian: levél (hu) , falevél (hu)
Hunsrik: plaat
Icelandic: lauf (is) n laufblað (is) n
Ido: folio (io)
Igbo: akwụkwọ (ig)
Ilocano: bulong
Indonesian: daun (id)
Ineseño: qap
Ingrian: lehti
Interlingua: folio
Inuktitut: ᐊᑭᕈᐊᕈᖅ ( akiroaroq )
Iranun: raun
Irish: duilleog (ga) f bileog (ga) f
Italian: foglia (it) f
Iu Mien: normh
Japanese: 葉 (ja) ( は, ha ) , 葉っぱ (ja) ( はっぱ, happa ) , 木の葉 (ja) ( このは, konoha )
Jarai: hla
Javanese: godhong (jv) , ron Old Javanese: ron
Jeju: 섭 ( seop )
Jingpho: lap
Kamkata-viri: por
Kannada: ಎಲೆ (kn) ( ele )
Kapampangan: bulung
Karelian: lehti
Karen:
S'gaw Karen: သ့ၣ်လၣ် ( thaỳ là )
Kashubian: lëst
Kazakh: жапырақ ( japıraq )
Khasi: sla
Khmer: ស្លឹក (km) ( slək ) , ស្លឹកឈើ ( slək chəə )
Kikai: 葉 ( ぱー, pā )
Kikuyu: ithangũ class 5
Kiput: dun
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: кор ( kor )
Konkani: पाल्लो ( pāllo )
Korean: 잎 (ko) ( ip )
Kumyk: япыракъ ( yapıraq )
Kunigami: 葉 ( ぱー, phā )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گەڵا (ckb) ( gella )
Laki: گِڵا ( gilla ) , ڤەڵگ ( vellg )
Northern Kurdish: belg (ku) m pel (ku) m
Southern Kurdish: گِڵا ( gilla ) , وەڵگ ( wellg )
Kyrgyz: жалбырак (ky) ( jalbırak )
Ladino: foja f yaprak m
Lakota: wahpe ape
Lao: ໃບ ( bai ) , ໃບໄມ້ (lo) ( bai mai )
Latgalian: lopa f
Latin: folium (la) n frons f
Latvian: lapa (lv) f
Ligurian: féuggia f
Limburgish: louf (li) n
Lingala: nkásá class 9 /10 , lokásá class 11 /10
Linngithigh: thondh
Lithuanian: lapas (lt) m
Lombard: foeuja f fòia f
Low German:
German Low German: Blatt n
Lü: ᦺᦢ ( ḃay )
Luganda: ekikoola
Luhya: lisafu
Lutuv: hnaa
Luxembourgish: Blat n
Macedonian: лист (mk) m ( list )
Maguindanao: laun
Malagasy: ravina (mg) , ravina (mg)
Malay: daun (ms)
Brunei Malay: daun
Malayalam: ഇല (ml) ( ila )
Maltese: werqa f
Manchu: ᠠᠪᡩᠠᡥᠠ ( abdaha )
Mandar: daun
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: (please verify ) лӯпта ( lūpta )
Manx: duillag f
Māori: rau (mi) , tawhera
Maranao: ra'on
Marathi: पर्ण n ( parṇa ) , पत्र (mr) n ( patra ) , दल (mr) n ( dal )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: лышташ ( lyštaš )
Western Mari: ӹлӹштӓш ( ÿlÿštäš )
Mauritian Creole: fey
Megleno-Romanian: frunză f
Melanau:
Central Melanau: daun
Middle English: leef blad
Minangkabau: daun (min)
Mirandese: fuolha f
Miwok:
Lake Miwok: ṣáanim
Miyako: 葉 ( ぱー, pā )
Mizo: hnah
Mòcheno: lap n
Mohegan-Pequot: wunipaq
Moksha: лопа ( lopa )
Mon: သၠ ( hlaˀ )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: навч (mn) ( navč )
Mongolian script: ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢ ( nabči )
Motu: rau
Muong: lả
Murut:
Keningau Murut: daun
Nahuatl: izhuatl (nah)
Nanai: хабдата ( habdata )
Navajo: atʼąąʼ
Nepali: पात (ne) ( pāt )
Nicobarese:
Central Nicobarese: dai
Niuean: lau
Norman: ( Jersey ) fielle f ( Guernsey ) fieille f ( Continental Norman ) fuule f ( Sark ) fiëly f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blad (no) n løv (no) n
Nynorsk: blad n lauv n
Occitan: fuèlha (oc) f
Odia: ପତ୍ର (or) ( patra )
Ojibwe: aniibiishibag aniibiishibagoon pl aniibiish aniibiishan pl ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔑᐸᐟ ( aniibiishibag ) , ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔑᐸᑯᐣ pl ( aniibiishibagoon ) , ᐊᓂᐱᐦᐡ ( aniibiish ) , ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔕᐣ pl ( aniibiishan )
Okinawan: 葉 ( ふぁー, fā )
Okinoerabu: 葉 ( はー, fā )
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: листъ m ( listŭ )
Glagolitic: ⰾⰹⱄⱅⱏ m ( listŭ )
Old East Slavic: листъ m ( listŭ )
Old English: lēaf (ang) n
Old Tupi: oba
Omaha-Ponca: 'ábe
Oneida: ónlahteʼ
Osage: žąąpé
Ossetian: сыф ( syf )
Pacoh: ula ila
Palauan: llel
Pali: paṇṇa n Burmese: ပဏ္ဏ n ( paṇṇa )
Devanagari: पण्ण n ( paṇṇa )
Khmer: បណ្ណ n ( paṇṇa )
Sinhalese: පණ්ණ n ( paṇṇa )
Thai: ปณฺณ n ( paṇṇa )
Pannonian Rusyn: лїст m ( ljist )
Papiamentu: foya
Pashto: پاڼه (ps) f ( pâṇa )
Pela: a³¹ faʔ⁵⁵ sak⁵⁵ faʔ⁵⁵
Pennsylvania German: Blatt n
Persian:
Dari: بَرْگ ( barg )
Iranian Persian: بَرْگ ( barg ) , پَر ( par )
Piedmontese: feuja f
Pipil: iswat izhuat
Plautdietsch: Blaut n
Polish: liść (pl) m
Pomo:
Eastern Pomo: si·ṭ'ál
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Potawatomi: bëk
Prasuni: pārag
Punjabi: ਪੱਤਾ m ( pattā )
Quapaw: apé žǫ́ape
Quechua: raphi llaqhi
Rapa Nui: rua
Rohingya: fata
Romagnol: fója f
Romani: patrin f
Romanian: frunză (ro) f
Romansh: fegl
Russian: лист (ru) m ( list ) , plural for this sense: ли́стья (ru) m pl ( lístʹja )
Saho: dharhaa
Sami:
Northern Sami: lasta
Samoan: lau
Sanskrit: पर्ण (sa) n ( parṇá ) , पत्र (sa) n ( patra )
Santali: please add this translation if you can
Sardinian: fògia f
Scottish Gaelic: duille f duilleag f
Semai: sela
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ли̑ст m ли̏ска f
Latin: lȋst (sh) m lȉska (sh) f
Shan: မႂ် (shn) ( mǎue ) , ဝႂ် (shn) ( wǎue )
Shona: shizha
Sicilian: fogghia (scn) f
Sindhi: پَنُ m ( panu )
Sinhalese: කොළේ ( koḷē ) , කොළය ( koḷaya )
Slovak: list (sk) m
Slovene: list (sl) m
Slovincian: lëst m
Somali: caleen (so) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: list m
Upper Sorbian: list m
Spanish: hoja (es) f foja f ( desus. ) , fronda (es) f coscoja (es) f ( dry )
Sundanese: daun (su)
Swahili: jani (sw) class 5 /6 , msahafu (sw) class 3 /4
Swedish: blad (sv) n löv (sv) n
Tagalog: dahon (tl)
Tahitian: rau
Tai Nüa: ᥛᥬ ( maue )
Tajik: барг (tg) ( barg )
Talysh: livə لیو
Tamil: இலை (ta) ( ilai )
Taos: ə̂na
Tarantino: fogghie f
Tarifit: afar m tifrešt f
Tat: vəlg
Tatar: яфрак (tt) ( yafraq )
Tausug: dahun
Tauya: wemo
Tày: bâư
Telugu: ఆకు (te) ( āku )
Temiar: sela
Tetum: roo
Tewa: kaa
Thai: ใบ (th) ( bai ) , ใบไม้ (th) ( bai-máai )
Tibetan: ལོ་མ། ( lo ma )
Tlingit: kayaaní
Tocharian A: pält
Tocharian B: pilta
Tok Pisin: lip
Tokunoshima: 葉 ( はー, hā )
Tonga (Zambia): itu class 5
Tongan: lau
Tooro: ibabi class 5
Tregami: påṭ
Tulu: ಅಡಿಪಿರೆ ( aḍipire )
Turkish: yaprak (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: یپراق ( yaprak )
Turkmen: ýaprak
Tuvaluan: lau
Udi: хазал ( ꭓazal )
Udmurt: куар ( kuar )
Ukrainian: лист (uk) m ( lyst )
Urdu: پَتّی f ( pattī ) , بَرْگ m ( barg )
Uyghur: يوپۇرماق ( yopurmaq ) , ياپراق ( yapraq )
Uzbek: yaproq (uz) , barg (uz)
Venetan: foja (vec) f fogia f
Veps: leht
Vietnamese: lá (vi)
Vilamovian: błot n
Volapük: bled (vo)
Võro: leht'
Votic: lehto
Waigali: poṭ
Walloon: foye (wa) f
Waray-Waray: dáhon
Welsh: dail (cy) f pl
Woiwurrung: jerrang
Wolof: xob (wo)
Xhosa: igqabi class 5 /6
Yaeyama: 葉 ( ぱー, pā )
Yakut: сэбирдэх ( sebirdeq )
Yámana: Suka
Yiddish: בלאַט m or f ( blat )
Yonaguni: 葉 ( はー, hā )
Yoron: 葉 ( ぱー, pā )
Yoruba: ewé
Yurok: kaap'
Záparo: wíka
Zazaki: pelg (diq) m par
Zealandic: blad n
Zhuang: mbaw
Zulu: ikhasi (zu) class 5 /6 , iqabi (zu) class 5 /6
anything resembling the leaf of a plant
sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin
sheet of a book
Afrikaans: blad (af) , bladsy (af)
Arabic: (please verify ) وَرَقَة f ( waraqa ) (please verify ) أَوْرَاق pl ( ʔawrāq ) صَحِيفَة ( ṣaḥīfa )
Aragonese: fuella (an) f
Armenian: էջ (hy) ( ēǰ ) , տերեւ (hy) ( terew )
Aromanian: acoalã f frãndzã f carti f filã f
Asturian: fueya (ast) f
Azerbaijani: vərəq (az) , yarpaq (az)
Bashkir: бит ( bit )
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m ( list )
Buryat: xуудаһан ( xuudahan ) , лиис ( liis )
Catalan: full (ca) m
Chichewa: tsamba
Czech: list (cs) m
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Finnish: lehti (fi) , sivu (fi)
French: feuille (fr) f feuillet (fr) m
Galician: folla (gl) f
German: Blatt (de) n
Greek: φύλλο (el) n ( fýllo )
Hindi: पन्ना (hi) m ( pannā )
Hungarian: lap (hu)
Ingrian: lehti
Italian: foglio (it) m
Japanese: 一枚 (ja) ( いちまい, ichimai )
Khmer: ស្លឹក (km) ( slək )
Korean: 낱장 ( natjang )
Latin: scheda f pagina (la) f
Latvian: lapa (lv) f loksne (lv) f
Lithuanian: lapas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Blat n
Macedonian: лист (mk) m ( list )
Māori: whārangi (mi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хуудас (mn) ( xuudas )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ark (no) n
Persian: برگ (fa) ( barg )
Polish: kartka (pl) f
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Romanian: foaie (ro) f
Russian: лист (ru) m ( list ) , plural for this sense: листы́ m pl ( listý )
Scottish Gaelic: duilleag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ли̑ст m
Latin: lȋst (sh) m
Sicilian: fogghiu (scn) m
Slovak: list (sk) m
Slovene: list (sl) m
Spanish: hoja (es) f folio (es) m
Swahili: (please verify ) gombo ( noun 5/6 ) (please verify ) magombo pl , (please verify ) ukurasa (sw) ( noun 11/10 ) (please verify ) kurasa (sw) pl
Swedish: blad (sv) n
Tagalog: pahina (tl)
Tarifit: afar m
Tày: bâư
Telugu: పత్రం (te) ( patraṁ )
Thai: ใบ (th) ( bai )
Turkish: yaprak (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: یپراق ( yaprak )
Volapük: bedastofed (vo)
Zulu: ikhasi (zu) class 5 /6
flat section used to extend a table
moveable panel of a bridge or door
computing, mathematics: tree node without descendants
layer supporting the kidney of a pig
— see leaf fat Translations to be checked
Verb
leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs present participle leafing simple past and past participle leafed
( intransitive ) foliage .
1828 Thomas Keightley , The Fairy Mythology , volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164 :Then flowered the mead, then leafed all
( transitive ) The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed .
( informal , transitive , uncommon ) play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
References
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008 ), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN page 337
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
leaf
( MS. Cotton Caligula A.ix ) alternative form of lef ( “ leaf ” )
Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *laub Proto-Germanic *laubą Old Saxon lōf Old High German loub Old Norse lauf Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 ( laufs ) .
Noun
lēaf n
leaf page
Declension
Strong a -stem:
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-West Germanic *laubu German Laube
Alternative forms
Noun
lēaf f
permission
Declension
Strong ō -stem:
Descendants
Scots
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Scots leif Middle English lef leef Old English lēaf
Noun
leaf (plural leafs
alternative form of leif ( “ leaf ” )
West Frisian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian lāf
Noun
leaf n plural leaven diminutive leafke
leaf , especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass
Further reading
“leaf (IV) ”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
From Old Frisian liāf
Adjective
leaf
friendly , kind , cordial
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
“leaf (I) ”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
