stripling

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɪplɪŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: S T R IH1 P L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”) [and other forms], possibly from strepen (“to remove the clothes of, undress, strip; to peel off; to skin (an animal); to remove; to take something away from someone; to plunder, rob”) (connoting something that is stripped and thin, and yet to reach its full size) + -ling (suffix forming diminutives). Strepen is derived from Old English *strēpan (Anglian), *strīepan, *strīpan, *strȳpan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupaną (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’). The English word is analysable as strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling.

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Old Armenian: մանուկ (manuk) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Old Armenian: պատանի (patani) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Old Armenian: տղայ (tłay) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Bulgarian: юноша (junoša) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Bulgarian: младеж (mladež) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Finnish: kloppi — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• French: jouvenceau — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Georgian: ჭაბუკი (č̣abuḳi) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• German: Jüngling — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Greek: αμούστακος (amoústakos) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Irish: gas — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Latin: catulaster — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Old English: beardlēas — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Polish: wyrostek — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Russian: парень (parenʹ) — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Scottish Gaelic: òganach — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Scottish Gaelic: proitseach — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Welsh: glaslanc — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence
• Welsh: llencyn — youth (young man) in the state of adolescence