boyish

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• /ˈbɔɪ.ɪʃ/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbojɪʃ/
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• CMU ARPABET: B OY1 IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Old English *bōia Middle English boye English boy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English boyish From boy + -ish.

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 少年的 (shàonián de) — like a boy
• Danish: drenget — like a boy
• Dutch: jongensachtig — like a boy
• Esperanto: knaba — like a boy
• Faroese: dreingjaligur — like a boy
• Finnish: poikamainen — like a boy
• French: de garçon — like a boy
• German: jungenhaft — like a boy
• German: knabenhaft — like a boy
• Greek: αγορίστικος (agorístikos) — like a boy
• Hungarian: fiús — like a boy
• Icelandic: strákslegur — like a boy
• Ido: pueratra — like a boy
• Japanese: 少年らしい (shōnen rashii) — like a boy
• Central Kurdish: کوڕانە (kurrane) — like a boy
• Latin: puerārius — like a boy
• Norwegian Bokmål: gutteaktig — like a boy
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gutaktig — like a boy
• Polish: chłopięcy — like a boy
• Portuguese: pueril — like a boy
• Portuguese: infantil — like a boy
• Russian: мальчи́шеский (malʹčíšeskij) — like a boy
• Scottish Gaelic: balachail — like a boy
• Spanish: muchachil — like a boy
• Swedish: pojkaktig — like a boy
• Turkish: oğlansı — like a boy
• Welsh: mabol — like a boy