puberty

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjuː.bə.ti/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈpju.bɚ.ti/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈpjʉː.bə.ti/
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• CMU ARPABET: P Y UW1 B ER0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English puberte, from Old French puberté, from Latin pūbertās (“the age of maturity, manhood”).

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пуберте́т (pubertét) — developmental phase
• Bulgarian: ю́ношество (júnošestvo) — developmental phase
• German: Geschlechtsreifung — developmental phase
• German: Reifezeit — developmental phase
• German: Pubertät — developmental phase
• Polish: dojrzewanie płciowe — developmental phase
• Polish: pokwitanie — developmental phase
• Arabic: بُلُوغ (bulūḡ) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Armenian: սեռական հասունություն (seṙakan hasunutʻyun) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Asturian: pubertá — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Belarusian: палавая спеласць (palavaja spjelascʹ) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Belarusian: палавое выспяванне (palavóje vyspjavannje) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Bengali: বয়ঃসন্ধি (boẏoḥśondhi) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Bengali: বয়ঃসন্ধিকাল (boẏoḥśondhikal) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Bulgarian: пуберте́т (pubertét) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Catalan: pubertat — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Chinese Mandarin: 青春期 (qīngchūnqī) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Chinese Mandarin: 思春期 (sīchūnqī) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Chinese Mandarin: 發情 /发情 (fāqíng) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Chinese Mandarin: 發身 /发身 (fāshēn) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Chinese Mandarin: 發育期 /发育期 (fāyùqī) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Czech: puberta — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Danish: pubertet — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Dutch: puberteit — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Esperanto: pubereco — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Faroese: kynsbúning — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Faroese: pubertetur — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Finnish: murrosikä — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Finnish: puberteetti — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Finnish: varhaismurrosikä — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• French: puberté — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Galician: puberdade — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Georgian: სქესობრივი სიმწიფე (skesobrivi simc̣ipe) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• German: Geschlechtsreife — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• German: geschlechtsreifes Alter — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Greek: εφηβεία (efiveía) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Ancient Greek: ἥβη (hḗbē) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Ancient Greek: ἐφηβεία (ephēbeía) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Hindi: यौवनारंभ (yauvnārambh) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Hindi: वयःसंधि (vayaḥsandhi) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Hungarian: serdülőkor — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Hungarian: pubertás — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Indonesian: usia pancaroba — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Indonesian: pubesens — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Italian: pubertà — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Japanese: 思春期 (shishunki) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Kashmiri: یاوَن کال (yāvan kāl) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Kazakh: балиғат (baliğat) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Khmer: ភាពពេញវ័យ (phiəppɨñvɨy) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Korean: 사춘기 (sachun'gi) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Northern Kurdish: temenê pêgihîştînê — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Northern Kurdish: temenê xwenasînê — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Latin: pūbertās — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Macedonian: пубертет (pubertet) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Malay: baligh — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Malay: puberti — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Māori: pūhuruhurutanga — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Marathi: पौगंडावस्था (paugaṇḍāvasthā) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Norwegian Bokmål: pubertet — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pubertet — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Polish: okres dojrzewania płciowego — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Portuguese: puberdade — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Romanian: pubertate — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Russian: полова́я зре́лость (polovája zrélostʹ) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Russian: полово́е созрева́ние (polovóje sozrevánije) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Sanskrit: वयःसंधि (vayaḥsaṃdhi) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Serbo-Croatian: pubertet — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Spanish: pubertad — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Swedish: pubertet — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Tagalog: mulansuplingan — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Thai: ความเป็นหนุ่มสาว — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Thai: วัยแรกรุ่น — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Turkish: ergenlik dönemi — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Ukrainian: статева зрілість (stateva zrilistʹ) — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Unami: kukhusëwakàn — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Vietnamese: dậy thì — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Welsh: glasoed — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• Welsh: blaenaeddfedrwydd — age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction