younger

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈjʌŋɡə/
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• General-American: /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
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• rhymes with -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: Y AH1 NG G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* An English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland) surname from Middle English yungre (“younger”), used to distinguish younger and older men with the same name. * In at least one case (of an immigrant Fleming), probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer (“young nobleman”). * Americanized form of cognate or like-sounding names, notably German Junger, Junker and Dutch Jonker.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: i rinisë — in an earlier period of life
• Belarusian: мало́дшы (malódšy) — in an earlier period of life
• Czech: mladší — in an earlier period of life
• Faliscan: mino (mino) — in an earlier period of life
• Georgian: უმცროსი (umcrosi) — in an earlier period of life
• German: jünger — in an earlier period of life
• Italian: minore — in an earlier period of life
• Japanese: 年下の (toshishita no) — in an earlier period of life
• Khmer: ក្មេងជាង (kmeeng jieng) — in an earlier period of life
• Malayalam: ഇളയ (iḷaya) — in an earlier period of life
• Polish: młodszy — in an earlier period of life
• Portuguese: mais jovem — in an earlier period of life
• Russian: мла́дший (mládšij) — in an earlier period of life
• Russian: младше (mladše) — in an earlier period of life
• Serbo-Croatian: млађи — in an earlier period of life
• Serbo-Croatian: mlađi — in an earlier period of life
• Slovak: mladší — in an earlier period of life
• Slovene: mlajši — in an earlier period of life
• Swedish: yngre — in an earlier period of life
• Ukrainian: моло́дший (molódšyj) — in an earlier period of life
• Volapük: yunikum — in an earlier period of life
• Yiddish: ייִנגער (yinger) — in an earlier period of life