leaf

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
2. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
3. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
4. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
5. Tea leaves.
6. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
7. A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
8. A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
9. In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
10. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. (slang) Cannabis.
13. A Canadian person.

Verb

1. To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

Concepten

blad

vel

plaat

bladeren

loof

blat

bladeren krijgen

doorbladeren

folie

lover

loofblad

krijgen

blaadje

vizierklep

bladschijf

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/liːf/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.