leaf

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

hoja

folio

pliego

tablero

hojear

yerba

foja

hoja de árbol

hojas

poblarse

quelite

aciculas de coníferas

hoja verde de maiz

oha

ala

🪽

nomofilo

cuchilla

🔪

follaje

oficio

rama

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

feuille

Blatt

blad

foglia

folha

φύλλο

folium

yaprak

foglio

fulla

ورقة

fuèlha

vel

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/liːf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: leef

Heredado de inglés antiguo: lēaf

Cognado con frisón occidental: leaf

Cognado con bajo alemán: Loov

Cognado con neerlandés: loof

Cognado con alemán: Laub

Cognado con danés: løv

Cognado con sueco: löv

Cognado con noruego nynorsk: lauv

Cognado con islandés: lauf

Cognado con irlandés: luibh

Cognado con latín: liber

Cognado con lituano: lúoba

Cognado con albanés: labë

Cognado con letón: luba

Cognado con ruso: 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.

Oraciones

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

Algunas tradiciones populares asignan un atributo diferente a cada hoja de un trébol.