leaf

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. (countable, uncountable) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
3. (countable, uncountable) Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
4. (countable, uncountable) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
5. (countable, uncountable) A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
6. (countable, uncountable) One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
7. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Tea leaves.
8. (countable, uncountable) A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
9. (countable, uncountable) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
10. (countable, uncountable) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
11. (countable, uncountable) The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
12. (countable, uncountable) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
13. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
14. (Internet, countable, humorous, pejorative, sometimes, uncountable) A Canadian person.
15. (countable, uncountable) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
3. (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

Konzepte

Blatt

Blätter

Blatt - s

Bögen

Platte

Flügel

🪽

Laub

Bogen

🙇

Türflügel

Laubblatt

Bogen -s

Folie

Zweig

Tischplatte ausziehbar

Nadel

blat

Riff

Tischplatte

Synonyme

sheet

foliage

page

leaves

🍃

blade

petal

paper

frond

folio

stem

tree leaf

foil

lamina

panel

riff

turn over

leafage

book

📖

lamella

flick

leaflet

lobe

wrapper

twig

flip

leave

sheet of paper

browse

riffle

plate

thumb

folium

creeper

fold

continuation

branch

flower

🌸

chip

magazine

little

cake

🍰

blade of grass

limb

flank

flake

butterfly

🦋

layered

first

1st

lap

fin

Übersetzungen

feuille

hoja

blad

foglia

folha

φύλλο

folium

yaprak

foglio

fulla

ورقة

folio

fuèlha

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/liːf/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: leef

Geerbt von Altenglisch: lēaf

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: leaf

Verwandt mit Niederdeutsch: Loov

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: loof

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Laub

Verwandt mit Dänisch: løv

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: löv

Verwandt mit Norwegisch (Nynorsk): lauv

Verwandt mit Isländisch: lauf

Verwandt mit Irisch: luibh

Verwandt mit Latein: liber

Verwandt mit Litauisch: lúoba

Verwandt mit Albanisch: labë

Verwandt mit Lettisch: luba

Verwandt mit Russisch: луб

In summary

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

Sätze

Some folk traditions assign a different attribute to each leaf of a clover .

Einige Volkstraditionen weisen jedem Blatt eines Kleeblattes ein anderes Attribut zu.