street urchin

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First use appears c. 1827 in a publication by Thomas Carlyle.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: straatkind — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Belarusian: беспрытульнік (bjesprytulʹnik) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Belarusian: беспрытульніца (bjesprytulʹnica) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Bulgarian: гамен (gamen) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Bulgarian: уличник (uličnik) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Danish: gadebarn — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Dutch: straatkind — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Dutch: straatjongen — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Esperanto: bubo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Finnish: katulapsi — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• French: gamin — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• French: gamine — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• French: enfant des rues — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Galician: neno da rúa — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• German: Straßenkind — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• German: Straßenjunge — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Greek: χαμίνι (chamíni) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Greek: αλάνι (aláni) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Hungarian: utcagyerek — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Hungarian: utcakölyök — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Ido: stradobubo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Indonesian: anak jalanan — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: ragazzo di strada — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: monello — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: discolo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: lazzarone — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: ladruncolo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Italian: borsaiolo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Latin: cicarö — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Lingala: shege — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Lingala: shégué — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Neapolitan: scugnizzo — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Plautdietsch: Gaussenbenjel — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Polish: ulicznik — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Portuguese: criança de rua — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Portuguese: menino de rua — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Portuguese: pivete — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Romanian: copil al străzii — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Russian: у́личный мальчи́шка (úličnyj malʹčíška) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Russian: оборва́нец (oborvánec) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Russian: беспризо́рник (besprizórnik) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Russian: беспризорница (besprizornica) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Spanish: niño de la calle — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Spanish: niño callejero — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Spanish: gamín — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Swedish: gatubarn — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Swedish: rännstensunge — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Tagalog: batang kalye — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Turkish: sokak çocuğu — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Turkish: göbel — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Ottoman Turkish: رنجل (rencil) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Yiddish: גאַסןיונג (gasnyung) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets
• Yiddish: גראָבער־יונג (grober-yung) — child living or spending most of their time in the streets