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嬰

1. baby; infant
2. ^† necklace
3. ^† to put on; to wear
4. ^† to surround
5. ^† to entangle; to fetter
6. ^† to suffer
7. ^† to offend
8. ^† to exert
9. A surname​.

Etymology

Probably related to 縈 (OC *qʷeŋ, “to entwine”) (Schuessler, 2007).

嬰兒

1. baby; infant (Classifier: 個／个 m)
2. (Taoism) lead (metal) 

   • 嬰兒奼女配陰陽，鉛汞相投分日月。 

     婴儿姹女配阴阳，铅汞相投分日月。

     From: Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, 16th-century CE

     Yīng'ér chànǚ pèi yīnyáng, qiān gǒng xiāngtóu fēn rìyuè. [Pinyin]

     The baby and the girl were married; lead and mercury combined to divide the sun and the moon.

嬰兒 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 嬰児, hiragana えいじ, rōmaji eiji, alternative reading みどりご, rōmaji midorigo)

1. Kyūjitai form of 嬰児: baby, infant, newborn

infant (plural infants)

1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
2. (law) A minor. 
   • 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

     Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...

3. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth. 
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

Very young human being

• Arabic: رَضِيع‎ m (raḍīʿ)
• Armenian: երեխա (hy) (erexa), մանուկ (hy) (manuk)
• Bulgarian: бебе (bg) n (bebe), пеленаче (bg) n (pelenače)
• Burmese: နို့စို့ကလေး (nui.cui.ka.le:)
• Chinese: Mandarin: 嬰兒 (zh), 婴儿 (zh) (yīng'ér)
• Czech: kojenec (cs) m, nemluvně n
• Danish: spædbarn (da) n
• Dutch: zuigeling (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: infano (eo), (used attributively) infana, infaneto (eo)
• Faroese: barn (fo) n, pinkubarn n, smábarn n
• Finnish: pikkulapsi (fi), imeväinen (fi)
• French: nourrisson (fr) m, enfant en bas âge, poupon (fr)
• Georgian: ჩვილი (čvili)
• German: Säugling (de) m, Wickelkind n, Kind (de) n, Kleinkind (de) n, kleines Kind n, Kriechling m, Baby (de) n
• Greek: βρέφος (el) n (vréfos), νήπιο (el) n (nípio)

  Ancient: βρέφος n (bréphos), νήπιον n (nḗpion)

• Hebrew: עולל‎ (he) m, תינוק‎ (he) m
• Hindi: शिशु (hi) m (śiśu)
• Hungarian: csecsemő (hu), kisbaba (hu)
• Interlingua: infante (ia)
• Italian: bambino (it) m, bambina (it) f
• Japanese: 赤ちゃん (ja) (あかちゃん, akachan), 赤ん坊 (ja) (あかんぼう, akanbō), 幼児 (ja) (ようじ, yōji), 乳児 (にゅうじ, nyūji)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 유아 (ko) (yua)

• Kyrgyz: наристе (ky) (nariste), бала (ky) (bala)
• Latin: infans m or f
• Livonian: imbiläpš
• Maori: kōhungahunga, piripoho
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: cozcapantica
• Norwegian: spedbarn n
• Occitan: nene m, nenon (oc) m, nenet (oc) m, toston
• Persian: طفل‎ (fa) (tefl), کودک‎ (fa) (kudak)
• Portuguese: infante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: bebeluș (ro) m
• Russian: младе́нец (ru) m (mladénec), (грудной) ребёнок (ru) m (rebjónok), дитя́ (ru) n (ditjá)
• Scottish Gaelic: maothran m
• Slovak: dojča n
• Spanish: nene (es) m, infante (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮇᮛᮧᮊ᮪ (orok)
• Swahili: watoto wachanga (sw)
• Swedish: spädbarn (sv)
• Telugu: శిశువు (te) (śiśuvu), పసిపాప (te) (pasipāpa)
• Thai: ทารก (th) (taa-rók)
• Turkish: bebek (tr)
• Vietnamese: trẻ sơ sinh
• Zulu: ingane class 9/10

Etymology

From Middle English infante, infaunte, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

Verb

for (present infinitive fārī or fārier, perfect active fātus sum); first conjugation, deponent, defective

1. I speak, talk, say.

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

Synonyms

• (say): dīcō, loquor, āiō, inquam

Derived terms[edit]

• affor
• effor
• fācundus
• fandus
• fāns
• fātum
• interfor
• praefor
• profor

Related terms[edit]

• fābula
• fāma
• fās

baby (plural babies)

A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.