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dwarf

adj · name · noun · verb · 16 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: dwôrf
  • General-American: /dwɔɹf/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /dwɔːf/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)f
  • CMU ARPABET: D W AO1 R F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Miniature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: especially

Examples

  • The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.
  • It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A standardized debugging file format.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: file format

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dwarfin, dwarrow

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: offensive, sometimes

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: elf, midget, pygmy

Antonyms: ettin, giant

5

noun

Meaning 5

An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • dwarf tree
  • dwarf honeysuckle

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: runt

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A dwarf star.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: main-sequence star, star, celestial body

7

verb

Meaning 7

To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: miniaturize, shrink

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To make appear insignificant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Bach dwarfs all other composers.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow, outshadow, outshine, outdo, put to shame, upstage, surpass, outmatch, outstrip

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To become (much) smaller.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shrink

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

a plant or animal that is atypically small

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: organism, being

13

noun

Meaning 13

a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gnome

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite

Narrower terms: Nibelung, Andvari

14

noun

Meaning 14

a person who is markedly small

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: midget, nanus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: small person

Narrower terms: pituitary dwarf, hypophysial dwarf, Levi-Lorrain dwarf, primordial dwarf, hypoplastic dwarf, true dwarf, normal dwarf

15

verb

Meaning 15

check the growth of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stunt

16

verb

Meaning 16

make appear small by comparison

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • This year's debt dwarfs that of last year

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: shadow, overshadow

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dwergaz Proto-West Germanic *dwerg Old English dweorg Middle English dwergh English dwarf From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Cognate with Scots droich, dwerch (“dwarf, midget”); Old High German twerc (German, Luxembourgish Zwerg (“dwarf”)); Old Norse dvergr (Danish dværg (“dwarf, midget”), Faroese dvørgur (“dwarf”), Icelandic dvergur (“dwarf”), Norwegian Bokmål dverg (“dwarf”), Norwegian Nynorsk dverg, verg (“dwarf”), Swedish dvärg (“dwarf”)); Old Frisian dwirg (Saterland Frisian Dwärch (“dwarf”), West Frisian dwerch (“dwarf”)); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg (“dwarf”)); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg (“dwarf”)). The Modern English noun has undergone complex phonetic changes. The form dwarf is the regular continuation of Old English dweorg, but the plural dweorgas would have given rise to dwarrows and the oblique stem dweorge- would have led to dwery. These forms are sometimes found as the nominative singular in Middle English texts and in English dialects. A parallel case is that of Old English burg giving burgh, borough, burrow, bury.

A play on the related ELF object file format. The backronym “Debugging With Arbitrary Record Formats” has been suggested.

Across languages

Translations

351 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: قَزَمِيّ (qazamiyy) — miniature
  • Bulgarian: дребен (dreben) — miniature
  • Czech: trpaslík — miniature
  • Dutch: dwerg- — miniature
  • Finnish: kääpiö- — miniature
  • French: nain — miniature
  • French: naine — miniature
  • German: Zwerg- — miniature
  • German: zwergenhaft — miniature
  • Hebrew: גַמָּדִי (gamadí) — miniature
  • Hebrew: נַנָּס (nanás) — miniature
  • Japanese: 矮性 (waisei) — miniature
  • Latin: pūmilus — miniature
  • Macedonian: џуџест (džudžest) — miniature
  • Norwegian: dverg- — miniature
  • Polish: karłowaty — miniature
  • Portuguese: nanico — miniature
  • Romanian: minuscul — miniature
  • Russian: ка́рликовый (kárlikovyj) — miniature
  • Slovene: pritlikav — miniature
  • Spanish: enano — miniature
  • Swedish: dvärg- — miniature
  • Thai: แคระ (krɛ́) — miniature
  • Afrikaans: dwerg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Albanian: xhuxh — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Arabic: قَزَم (qazam) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Armenian: թզուկ (tʻzuk) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Aromanian: ficiu — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Asturian: nanu — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Azerbaijani: cırtdan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Belarusian: ка́рлік (kárlik) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Belarusian: гном (hnom) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Breton: korrigan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Bulgarian: джудже́ (džudžé) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Bulgarian: гном (gnom) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Burmese: ပုတို (pu.tui) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Catalan: nan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Catalan: nano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 矮人 (ai2 jan4) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 侏儒 (zhūrú) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矮人 (ǎirén) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Czech: trpaslík — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Czech: skřítek — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Czech: pidimužík — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Czech: permoník — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Danish: dværg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Dutch: dwerg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Esperanto: nano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Estonian: kääbus — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Faroese: dvørgur — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Finnish: kääpiö — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • French: nain — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • French: naine — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Old French: nain — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • North Frisian: Önereersk — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Galician: anano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Galician: nano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Georgian: ჯუჯა (ǯuǯa) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Georgian: ცეროდენა (cerodena) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Georgian: ქონდრისკაცი (kondrisḳaci) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • German: Zwerg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • German: Zwergin — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Greek: νάνος (nános) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Ancient Greek: νᾶνος (nânos) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Hebrew: גַּמָּד (gamád) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Hindi: बौना (baunā) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Hungarian: törpe — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Icelandic: dvergur — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Ido: nano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Indonesian: kurcaci — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Irish: abhac — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Middle Irish: abacc — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Italian: nano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Japanese: ドワーフ (dowāfu) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Japanese: 小人 (kobito) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Japanese: 侏儒 (shuju) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Japanese: 矮人 (waijin) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kazakh: ергежейлі (ergejeilı) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kazakh: қортық (qortyq) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kazakh: тырбық (tyrbyq) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Korean: 난쟁이 (nanjaeng'i) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Korean: 왜인 (waein) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Korean: 드베르그 (deubereugeu) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kyrgyz: эргежээл (ergejeel) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kyrgyz: кыдыгый (kıdıgıy) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Kyrgyz: кидик (kidik) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Lao: ຄົນແຈ້ (khon chǣ) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Latin: nanus — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Latvian: rūķis — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Lithuanian: nykštukas — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Lombard: nan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Low German: Dwarg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Luxembourgish: Zwak — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Macedonian: џуџе (džudže) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Maltese: nanu — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Middle English: dwergh — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dverg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dverg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Occitan: nan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Old English: dweorg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Old Norse: dvergr — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Iranian Persian: کوتولِه (kutule) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Polish: krasnolud — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Polish: karzeł — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Polish: krasnoludek — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Polish: skrzat — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Portuguese: anão — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Romanian: pitic — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Russian: ка́рлик (kárlik) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Russian: ка́рлица (kárlica) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Russian: гном (gnom) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Russian: дворф (dvorf) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Scots: droich — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Scottish Gaelic: luspardan — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Scottish Gaelic: troich — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Serbo-Croatian: пату́љак — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Serbo-Croatian: patúljak — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Slovak: trpaslík — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Slovene: škrat — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Slovene: škratica — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Slovene: palček — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Slovene: palčica — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Spanish: enano — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Swahili: kijeba — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Swedish: dvärg — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Tajik: пакана (pakana) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Tajik: пастак (pastak) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Tajik: қадпаст (qadpast) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Thai: คนแคระ (kon-krɛ́) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Turkish: cüce — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Ukrainian: ка́рлик (kárlyk) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Ukrainian: гном (hnom) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Urdu: بَونا (baunā) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Uzbek: pakana — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Uzbek: mitti — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Vietnamese: chú lùn — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Welsh: pegor — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Yiddish: קאַרליק (karlik) — a being from folklore, underground-dwelling nature spirit
  • Afrikaans: dwerg — small person
  • Arabic: حَنْدَل (ḥandal) — small person
  • Arabic: حِنْتَار (ḥintār) — small person
  • Arabic: قَزَم (qazam) — small person
  • Arabic: قَزَمَة (qazama) — small person
  • Azerbaijani: cırtdan — small person
  • Breton: korr — small person
  • Bulgarian: джудже́ (džudžé) — small person
  • Catalan: nan — small person
  • Catalan: nano — small person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 侏儒 (zhūrú) — small person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矮子 (ǎizi) — small person
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矮人 (ǎirén) — small person
  • Czech: trpaslík — small person
  • Czech: skřítek — small person
  • Czech: pidimužík — small person
  • Danish: dværg — small person
  • Dutch: dwerg — small person
  • Egyptian: n-mw (nmw) — small person
  • Egyptian: d:n-g:F21- -A1 (dng) — small person
  • Esperanto: nano — small person
  • Esperanto: nanino — small person
  • Faroese: dvørgur — small person
  • Finnish: kääpiö — small person
  • French: nain — small person
  • French: naine — small person
  • Galician: anano — small person
  • Galician: recoteno — small person
  • Galician: sanicouco — small person
  • Galician: tozo — small person
  • Georgian: ჯუჯა (ǯuǯa) — small person
  • Georgian: ცეროდენა (cerodena) — small person
  • German: Zwerg — small person
  • German: Zwergin — small person
  • Greek: νάνος (nános) — small person
  • Ancient Greek: νᾶνος (nânos) — small person
  • Hebrew: גַמָּד (gammád) — small person
  • Hebrew: נַנָּס (nanás) — small person
  • Hungarian: törpe — small person
  • Icelandic: dvergur — small person
  • Ido: nano — small person
  • Italian: nano — small person
  • Italian: nana — small person
  • Japanese: 小人 (kobito) — small person
  • Japanese: 矮人 (waijin) — small person
  • Japanese: チビ (chibi) — small person
  • Khmer: មនុស្សតឿ (mɔnuh tɨə) — small person
  • Central Kurdish: باڵابستە (ballabiste) — small person
  • Lao: ຄົນແຈ້ (khon chǣ) — small person
  • Lao: ວາມົນ (wā mon) — small person
  • Latin: nānus — small person
  • Latin: nana — small person
  • Latin: pūmiliō — small person
  • Latin: pūmilus — small person
  • Latvian: punduris — small person
  • Low German: Dwarg — small person
  • Macedonian: џуџе (džudže) — small person
  • Macedonian: кепец (kepec) — small person
  • Maltese: nanu — small person
  • Māori: pūwhenua — small person
  • Māori: roiroi — small person
  • Māori: whena — small person
  • Middle English: dwergh — small person
  • Mongolian: одой хүн (odoj xün) — small person
  • Classical Nahuatl: tzapa — small person
  • Classical Nahuatl: tzapatōn — small person
  • Classical Nahuatl: tzapatzin — small person
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dverg — small person
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dverg — small person
  • Iranian Persian: کوتولِه (kutule) — small person
  • Polish: karzeł — small person
  • Portuguese: anão — small person
  • Portuguese: anã — small person
  • Romanian: pitic — small person
  • Romanian: prichindel — small person
  • Russian: ка́рлик (kárlik) — small person
  • Russian: ка́рлица (kárlica) — small person
  • Russian: лилипу́т (lilipút) — small person
  • Scots: droich — small person
  • Scottish Gaelic: troich — small person
  • Slovak: trpaslík — small person
  • Slovene: škrat — small person
  • Slovene: palček — small person
  • Slovene: pritlikavec — small person
  • Spanish: enano — small person
  • Swedish: dvärg — small person
  • Tagalog: himandak — small person
  • Telugu: గిడ్డ (giḍḍa) — small person
  • Telugu: మరుగుజ్జు (marugujju) — small person
  • Thai: คนแคระ (kon-krɛ́) — small person
  • Turkish: cüce — small person
  • Ukrainian: ка́рлик (kárlyk) — small person
  • Vietnamese: người lùn — small person
  • Welsh: cor — small person
  • Yiddish: קאַרליק (karlik) — small person
  • Yoruba: aràrá — small person
  • Afrikaans: dwerg — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Bulgarian: мъни́че (mǎníče) — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Catalan: nan — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Catalan: nano — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Danish: dværg — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Dutch: dwerg — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Esperanto: nano — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Finnish: kääpiö — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • French: nain — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • French: naine — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Galician: anano — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Galician: recoteno — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Galician: sanicouco — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Galician: tozo — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Galician: zambullo — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • German: Zwerg — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Hungarian: törpe — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Ido: nanacho — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Ido: kurtacho — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Latvian: punduris — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Iranian Persian: کوتولِگی (kutulegi) — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Polish: karzeł — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Portuguese: anão — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Russian: ка́рлик (kárlik) — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Spanish: enano — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Swedish: dvärg — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Turkish: cüce — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Turkish: minik — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Turkish: ufak — something much smaller than the usual of its sort
  • Afrikaans: dwergster — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Arabic: قَزَم (qazam) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Aragonese: nana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Asturian: nana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Bulgarian: джудже́ (džudžé) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Catalan: nana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Chinese Mandarin: 矮星 (ǎixīng) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Czech: trpaslík — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Danish: dværg — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Dutch: dwergster — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Dutch: dwerg — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Esperanto: nano — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Finnish: kääpiö — astronomy: relatively small star
  • French: naine — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Galician: anana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • German: Zwerg — astronomy: relatively small star
  • German: Zwergstern — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Greek: νάνος (nános) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Hebrew: נַנָּס (nanás) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Hungarian: törpe — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Irish: abhac — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Italian: nana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Japanese: 矮星 (waisei) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Korean: 왜성 (waeseong) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Latin: pumilio — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Latvian: punduris — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Latvian: pundurzvaigzne — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Occitan: nana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Occitan: naneta — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Persian: کوتوله (kutule) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Polish: karzeł — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Portuguese: anã — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Romanian: pitică — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Russian: ка́рлик (kárlik) — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Scottish Gaelic: fo-phlanaid — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Serbo-Croatian: пату́љак — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Serbo-Croatian: patúljak — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Slovene: pritlikavka — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Spanish: estrella enana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Spanish: enana — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Swedish: dvärg — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Turkish: cüce — astronomy: relatively small star
  • Dutch: verdwergen — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Esperanto: plietigi — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Esperanto: malgrandigi — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Finnish: kutistaa — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • French: nanifier — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • French: naniser — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • French: rapetisser — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Russian: уменьшать (umenʹšatʹ) — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Swedish: förminska — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Swedish: krympa — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Swedish: reducera — to render smaller, turn into a dwarf
  • Danish: rage op over — to make appear much smaller
  • Dutch: in het niet doen verzinken — to make appear much smaller
  • Esperanto: plietigi — to make appear much smaller
  • Esperanto: malgrandigi — to make appear much smaller
  • Finnish: jättää varjoonsa — to make appear much smaller
  • French: écraser — to make appear much smaller
  • Macedonian: фр́ла во сенка (fŕla vo senka) — to make appear much smaller
  • Portuguese: sobrepujar — to make appear much smaller
  • Romanian: minimiza — to make appear much smaller
  • Spanish: apabullar — to make appear much smaller
  • Spanish: empequeñecer — to make appear much smaller
  • Spanish: doblegar — to make appear much smaller
  • Spanish: hacer parecer muy pequeño — to make appear much smaller
  • Swedish: förminska — to make appear much smaller
  • Swedish: krympa — to make appear much smaller
  • Swedish: reducera — to make appear much smaller
  • Dutch: overschaduwen — to make appear insignificant
  • Finnish: jättää varjoonsa — to make appear insignificant
  • French: écraser — to make appear insignificant
  • French: éclipser — to make appear insignificant
  • German: in den Schatten stellen — to make appear insignificant
  • Hebrew: גִּמֵּד — to make appear insignificant
  • Russian: затмевать (zatmevatʹ) — to make appear insignificant
  • Danish: skrumpe — to become (much) smaller
  • Danish: krympe — to become (much) smaller
  • Dutch: verschrompelen — to become (much) smaller
  • Esperanto: plietiĝi — to become (much) smaller
  • Esperanto: malgrandiĝi — to become (much) smaller
  • Finnish: kutistua — to become (much) smaller
  • French: se nanifier — to become (much) smaller
  • French: rapetisser — to become (much) smaller
  • German: schrumpfen — to become (much) smaller
  • Russian: уменьшаться (umenʹšatʹsja) — to become (much) smaller
  • Swedish: krympa — to become (much) smaller
  • Finnish: typistää — to make or keep small
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