Leaf - Wiktionary

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English

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Etymology

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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- (“to cut off”).[1]

Cognates

Cognate with Scots leaf (“leaf”), Yola laafe (“leaf”), North Frisian luuf (“leaf”), Saterland Frisian Loof (“leaf”), West Frisian leaf (“leaf”), Cimbrian loap (“leaf”), Dutch loof (“foliage”), German Laub (“leaves”), German Low German Loov (“leaf”), Luxembourgish Laf (“foliage, leaves”), Mòcheno lap (“leaf”), Vilamovian łaub, łaup, łojp (“leaf”), Danish løv (“leaf”), Faroese leyv (“leaf”), Icelandic lauf (“leaf”), Norwegian Bokmål lauv, løv (“leaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauv (“leaf”), Swedish löf, löv (“leaf”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs, “leaf”); also Irish luibh (“herb, plant”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Lithuanian lúobas (“bark; bast”), Polish łub (“bark”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).

(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

Pronunciation

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enPR: lēf, IPA(key): /liːf/
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Rhymes: -iːf
Homophones: lief; Leith (th-fronting)

Noun

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leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
(botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
(publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). Hyponyms: flyleaf, looseleaf
- 1900, Profitable Advertising, volume 10, number 2, page 893:Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.
A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. Synonyms: folio, folium gold leaf
One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52:Lumbering down a precipitous "slideway," the Thornycroft broke two main leaves in the back spring[.]
(in the plural) Tea leaves.
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
(plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement. Hyponym: doorleaf Meronym: stile The train car has one single-leaf and two double-leaf doors per side.
- 1914, Department of Bridges, City of New York, Report, page 90:The bridge shear locks were repaired and the long ends of the shear locks shortened about two inches to eliminate butting of the bridge leafs against each other.
- 1992 July 21, William R. Kennedy, John M. Kennedy, Power mine door system‎[1], US Patent 5,222,838:It will be noted that the pivotal mounting of the cylinders is such that the cylinders have their greatest leverage (i.e., exert the greatest door-opening force) when the door leafs 24, 28 are closed because the cylinders are generally perpendicular to the closed leafs. This is desirable because the load on the leafs is the greatest when they are closed due to air pressure. As the leafs begin to open and this air pressure decreases, the opening force exerted by the cylinders on the door leafs decreases and the opening speed of the leafs increases.
- 1993, Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 136:THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE OWNERS/OPERATORS OF BASCULE BRIDGES TO INSTALL CAUTION LIGHTS AND DAYLIGHT MARKINGS AT ELEVATION POINTS ON BRIDGE LEAFS WHERE THEY PROTRUDE OVER NAVIGABLE CHANNELS TO IDEN TIFY[sic] TO MARINERS THE POINT AT WHICH FULL SKYWARD CHANNEL CLEARANCE IS NOT AVAILABLE TO TRANSITING VESSELS: THE LIGHTS SHOULD ACTIVATE WHEN THE BRIDGELEAFS ARE IN THE NORMAL FULLY OPEN POSITION.[…]THE NTSB RECOMMENDS THAT THE U.S. COAST GUARD: REQUIRE THAT BRIDGE OWNERS/OPERATORS PROVIDE IN BASCULE BRIDGE PERMIT APPLICATIONS THE ANGLE OF THE BRIDGELEAF(S). THE MAXIMUM VERTICAL CLEARANCE AT THE FENDERS AND AT THE BRIDGELEAF ENDS, AND THE EXTENT OF HORIZONTAL CHANNEL CLEARANCE OVER WHICH FULL SKYWARD CLEARANCE IS AVAILABLE WHEN THE BRIDGE LEAFS ARE IN THE FULLY OPEN POSITION.
- 1993, Realty and Building, page 20:The four separate segments of the movable bridge span, known as bridge leafs, were alternately rehabilitated while maintaining upper-level roadway and pedestrian traffic on one-half of the bridge and waterway traffic on one-half of the river channel.
- 1993, The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events, Grolier, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 224:The hydraulic system lifts and rotates two 413-ft (126-m) bridge leafs, each weighing 7,500 tons, in just four minutes.
- 1996, Gerard R. Wolfe, Chicago in and Around the Loop: Walking Tours of Architecture and History, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 150:Note the Art Deco-style sculptures on the wall of the bridge house showing a ship passing under the raised bridge leafs.
- 2010, James Newport-Chiakulas, Bridges to Justice: Love, Murder, & Politics in Chicago, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 55:Like I’ve said, John, you’ve got to get the two bridge leafs to come down very slowly to a complete stop in order to trigger the tongue locks. This is what holds the two leafs of the bridge firmly in place. Otherwise, the bridge leafs will start bouncing, and once they start bouncing, you’ll never stop them from goin’ straight up in the air.
(computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
(slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
(4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
(programming, x86) 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.
- 2024 May 7, Perry Yuan, “[PATCH 00/11] AMD Pstate Driver Fixes and Improvements”, in Kernel Lore‎[2]:X86_FEATURE_HETERO_CORE_TOPOLOGY is used to identify whether the processor support heterogeneous core type by reading CPUID leaf Fn_0x80000026_EAX and bit 30. if the bit is set as one, then amd_pstate driver will check EBX 30:28 bits to get the core type.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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alderleaf Juneberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
almond tree leaf skeletoniser moth, almond tree leaf skeletonizer moth (Aglaope infausta)
aluminium leaf, aluminum leaf
angle leaf
apple bud and leaf mite
apple leaf midge
apple leaf miner (Lyonetia clerkella)
arrowleaf
ash-gray leaf bug
ash-leaf
aspen leaf blotch miner moth
autumn leaf
auxiliary leaf
avocado leaf
babyleaf
banana leaf
baroclinic leaf
bay leaf, bay-leaf
beleaf
belladona leaf
betel leaf
bible leaf (Tanacetum balsamita)
big-leaf, bigleaf
bitter leaf, bitter-leaf, bitterleaf (Vernonia spp.)
black currant leaf midge (Dasineura tetensi)
blank leaf
bloodleaf (Iresine spp.)
blue-sided leaf frog
blunt-leaf heath (Epacris obtusifolia)
borrow a leaf out of someone's book
branch-leaf
brass leaf
brightleaf
broad-leaf, broadleaf
bronze leaf
brown leaf
brown leaf spot
bumleaf
butterleaf
California single-leaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla subsp. californiarum)
call leaf
cedar leaf oil
cereal leaf beetle
Chinese leaf
clover-leaf, cloverleaf
coffee leaf rust
cold leaf
come into leaf
compound leaf
copper-leaf, copperleaf
cord-leaf
crinkle leaf
curl-leaf
curly-leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus)
curry leaf, curry-leaf, curry-leaf tree
cutleaf
cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
cutleaf groundcherry (Physalis angulata)
daisyleaf grape fern (Botrychium matricariifolium)
dead leaf
deadnettle leaf beetle
deerfoot vanilla leaf
diamond-leaf laurel (Auranticarpa rhombifolia)
digitalis leaf
dining leaf
disleaf, disleave
dock leaf
double leaf, double-leaf
Double Leaf Society
dropleaf
drop-leaf
drop-leaf table
dusky leaf monkey
Dutch leaf
earleaf nightshade (Solanum mauritianum)
empty leaf
end leaf, end-leaf, endleaf
eumusae leaf spot
facsimile leaf
falling leaf
fall of the leaf
fanleaf
featherleaf
fern-leaf
fiddleleaf
fig-leaf, figleaf, fig leaf
fineleaf
fine leaf jam
five-leafed
fiveleaf, five-leaf
five-leaf grass
flag leaf
flannel-leaf
flannel leaf
flatleaf
flat-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group; syn. Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum)
floral leaf
Florence leaf
fly-leaf, flyleaf
foliage leaf
foliation leaf
four-leaf
four-leaf clover
four-lined leaf bug
glaucous-leaf oak (Quercus glauca)
global Nagano leaf
golden leaf tree (Chrysophyllum cainito)
gold leaf
grandleaf seagrape (Coccoloba pubescens
grape-leaf begonia
gray-leaf pine, grey-leaf pine
green leaf lettuce
halberd-leaf rosemallow (Hibiscus laevis)
Hattie leaf
hawkweed-leaf saxifrage, hawkweed-leaved saxifrage (Saxifraga hieraciifolia, syn. Micranthes hieracifolia)
healing leaf
heartleaf
heart-leaf
hollow leaf
holly-leaf cherry, hollyleafcherry, holly-leaved cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)
Hume's leaf warbler
in full leaf
in leaf
interleaf
interleave
in the leaf
ivy-leaf
Japanese bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia obovata)
Japanese leaf
jelly leaf
jellyleaf
lace leaf, lace-leaf, laceleaf
lace-leaf plant
Lamotte's roundleaf bat (Hipposideros lamottei)
lantern leaves
largeleaf
large leaf-eating ladybird
lattice leaf, latticeleaf
lattice leaf plant
laurel-leaf blade, laurel-leaf point
leafage
leaf alcohol
leaf aldehyde
leaf aphid
leaf area duration
leaf-area index
leaf-arrowhead
leaf arrowhead
leaf axil
leafbase
leaf-base
leaf-bearing
leafbearing
leaf-beaten
leaf-bed
leaf beet
leaf beetle, leaf-beetle (Chrysomelidae)
leafbird (Chloropsis)
leaf-birth
leaf blade
leaf blight
leaf blister
leaf blotch
leaf blower, leaf-blower
leafblowing
leaf-book
leaf-brass
leaf bridge, leaf-bridge
leaf brown
leaf bud, leaf-bud, leafbud
leaf bug, leaf-bug (Miridae)
leaf-bundle
leaf butterfly, leaf-butterfly (Charaxinae)
leaf cactus (Epiphyllum, Pereskia)
leaf-canopy
leaf cast
leaf casting
leafcasting
leaf chafer (Rutelinae)
leaf class
leaf-climber
leaf-climbing
leaf coral (Panona cactus)
leaf crumpler, leaf-crumpler
leafcup (Smallanthus uvedalia)
leaf curling plum aphid (Brachycaudus helichrysi)
leaf-curling spider
leaf curl, leaf-curl
leaf-cushion
leaf-cut
leafcutter
leaf-cutter ant
leaf-cutter bee
leaf cutter, leaf-cutter
leaf-cutting
leafcutting
leaf-cutting ant
leaf-cutting bee
leaf-cycle
leaf deer (Muntiacus putaoensis)
leaf disease
leaf-disk test
leafdom
leaf door
leaf-drift
leaf-eared
leafeater
leafed
leafen
leafen gold
leafer
leafery
leafet
leaffall
leaf-fall
leaf fat, leaf-fat
leaf-feeder
leaf-finch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
leaffish (Polycentridae)
leaf flea, leaf-flea
leafflower
leaf-folder
leaf-foot bug, leaf-footed bug (Coreidae)
leaf-footed
leaf form
leaf frog, leaf-frog (Hylidae)
leafful
leaf gap, leaf-gap
leaf-gate
leaf gelatine
leaf-gilding
leaf-gold
leaf green, leaf-green
leaf hopper, leaf-hopper, leafhopper (Cicadellidae)
leaf-house
leaf-hut
leaf index
leafing
leaf initial
leaf insect, leaf-insect (Phylliidae)
leaf insertion
leafit
leaf-joy
leaf lard, leaf-lard
leafless
leaflet
leaf lettuce
leaf lichen
leaf-like, leaflike
leafling
leaf litter
leaflitter
leaf louse, leaf-louse
leaflove
leaf-mass
leafmeal
leaf metal, leaf-metal
leaf-miner fly
leaf miner, leaf-miner (Lepidoptera, Symphyta, Diptera)
leaf-mining caterpillar
leaf mold, leaf-mold, leaf mould, leaf-mould
leaf monkey, leaf-monkey (Colobinae)
leaf-mosaic
leaf muntjac (Muntiacus putaoensis)
leaf mustard
leaf nematode (Aphelenchoididae)
leaf-netting
leaf node
leaf-nosed
leaf-nosed bat
leaf-notcher
leaf notcher (Artipus floridanus)
leaf of heddles
leaf-opposed
leaf out
Leafpad
leaf peeper, leaf-peeper
leaf peeping, leaf-peeping
leafpile
leaf-plant
leaf-plate, leaf-platter
leaf primordium
leaf protein
leaf protein concentrate
leaf-raking
leaf-red
Leaf River
leafroll
leaf roller, leaf-roller
leaf-rolling
leaf roll, leaf-roll
leaf-rosette
leaf rust, leaf-rust
leaf scald
leaf-scale
leaf scar, leaf-scar
leaf scorch
leafscraper
leafset
leaf sewer
leaf shape
leaf-shaped
leaf sheath, leaf-sheath
leaf-shedding
leaf sheep
leaf shelter
leaf shutter
leaf-sickness
leaf sight, leaf-sight
leaf-silver
leaf site
leaf-skin
leaf smut
leaf soil, leaf-soil
leafsome
leafspace
leaf-spine
leafspot
leaf spot, leaf-spot
leaf spring, leaf-spring
leaf-sprung
leaf stalk, leaf-stalk, leafstalk
leaf storm
leaf-storm
leaf-table
leaf-tailed
leaf-tailed gecko
leaf tea
leaf-teeth
leaf-tendril
leaf-thorn
leaf tier
leaf-tin
leaf tobacco
leaf-toed gecko
leaf topology
leaftosser
leaf trace, leaf-trace
leaf truck
leaf-turner
leaf turtle
leaf tyer
leafule
leaf valve
leaf-valve
leaf vegetable
leaf warbler, leaf-warbler
leaf wasp, leaf-wasp (Trigonalidae)
leafwing
leafwise
leafwork
leaf-work
leaf-worm
leafworm
leafy
leather leaf, leatherleaf
leave
leaved
leaveless
leavish
leavy
letterleaf
lettuce leaf
linkleaf cactus
lion's leaf
littleleaf disease
little-leaf fig
little-leaf linden
littleleaf, little leaf
littleleaf snowberry
liver-leaf, liverleaf
local Nagano leaf
longleaf
long-leafed pine, long-leaf pine, longleaf pine, long-leaved pine (Pinus palustris)
loose-leaf, looseleaf
lotus leaf wrap
love leaf
lower leaf zone
Lucerne leafweevil
Malabar leaf
Malayan roundleaf bat
mantle leaf
maple leaf, maple-leaf
maximum leaf spanning tree
metal leaf
Mexican flame leaf, Mexican flameleaf
mid-leaf
monoleaf
multileaf
multileaf collimator
myriad-leaf
nanoleaf
narrow-leaf ash
narrow-leaf cattail
narrowleaf hawkweed
narrow-leaf penstemon
needleleaf
needle-leaf tree
netleaf
netleaf hackberry
nettle-leaf giant hyssop
nettleleaf goosefoot, nettle-leaved goosefoot
nettle-leaf horsemint
nettle-leaf porterweed
new leaf
nonleaf
northern corn-leaf blight
northern leaf blight
noseleaf, nose leaf, nose-leaf
Novikov closed leaf theorem
oak leaf, oakleaf
oblongleaf Juneberry
one-leaf
orange-leaf
orbiculate leaf
oriental leaf
overleaf
painted leaf
painted-leaf begonia
paint leaf
paleleaf
palladium leaf
Pallas's leaf warbler
palm-leaf
palm-leaf manuscript
palm-leaf snail
parasol leaf tree
patch-leaf
peachleaf
peach leaf curl
peachleaf willow
pear leaf blister mite (Eriophyes pyri)
pear leaf blister moth
pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge
pine leaf scale
plain leaf warbler
platinum leaf
pointed-leaf maple
potato leaf roll virus, potato leafroll virus
preliminary leaf
primary leaf
proof leaf
purple-faced leaf monkey
purpleleaf
quarto leaf
quiverleaf
raffle leaf
ragleaf
rain leaf
rare as a four-leaf clover
red leaf
red leaf lettuce
redleaf rose
red raspberry leaf
rigid-leaf poison
root leaf, root-leaf
rose-leaf
rough leaf
rough-leaf false vervain
roundleaf
roundleaf plantain
roundleaf snowberry
sacred pepper leaf
satanic leaf-tailed gecko
satin leaf, satinleaf
saucer-leaf
saw-leaf herb
scale leaf
seed leaf, seed-leaf
seminal leaf
Semon's leaf-nosed bat
sesame leaf
shake like a leaf
shin leaf, shin-leaf, shinleaf
shinyleaf
shortleaf
short-leaf pine, shortleaf pine, shortleaf yellow pine (Pinus echinata)
silver-leaf nightshade
silverleaf nightshade
silver leaf, silver-leaf
silver leaf tree
silverleaf whitefly
simple leaf
single-leaf pine, single-leaf pinyon
singleleaf, single-leaf
skeleton leaf
sleek-leaf
softleaf
southern leaf-tailed gecko
spade leaf
specific leaf area
spiny-leaf podocarp
split-leaf philodendron
spoon-leafed sundew
spoonleaf yucca
spring leaf
starleaf
star-leaf begonia
stem-and-leaf plot
stem and leaf, stem-and-leaf
stem leaf
stiff-leaf
stiff-leaf goldenrod
strawberry leaf
stripleaf, strip-leaf
sugarleaf
Sumatra leaf
sweet leaf, sweetleaf
symplectic leaf
take a leaf out of someone's book
tansy leaf aster
tea leaf paradox
tea leaf, tea-leaf, tealeaf
tendu leaf
thickleaf
thoroughleaf
thousand-leaf
threadleaf groundsel
three-leaf
tie-a-leaf
title leaf
tooling leaf
toothleaf
triple nose-leaf bat
true leaf, true-leaf
trumpet-leaf
turn a new leaf
turn down a leaf
turn over a new leaf
turn over the next leaf
turn the leaf
twill of four leaves
twill of three leaves
twinleaf onion
twinleaf, twin-leaf
two-leaf
umbrella leaf, umbrella-leaf
underleaf
unit leaf rate
unleaf, unleave
upper leaf zone
vanilla leaf
velvet-leaf, velvetleaf
venous leaf
vine-leaf, vine leaf
walking leaf, walking-leaf (Phylliidae)
waterleaf, water leaf, water-leaf
wavyleaf
waxleaf privet
way of the leaf
Whyteleafe
willowleaf pear
willow-leaf point
windowleaf
yellow-leaf sickle pine

Descendants

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Tok Pisin: lip

Translations

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Abaga: azag̶aʔe
Abkhaz: абӷьы (abğʲə)
Acehnese: ôn
Adyghe: тхьэпкӏэ (tḥɛpkʼɛ)
Afar: dalaa
Afrikaans: blaar (af)
Ainu: ハㇺ (ham)
Aklanon: dahon
Albanian: gjethe (sq) f pl
Altai: Southern Altai: јалбырак (ǰalbïrak)
Amami Ōshima: Northern Amami Ōshima: 葉 (はー, hā) Southern Amami Ōshima: 葉 (はー, hā)
Amharic: ቅጠል (ḳəṭäl)
Anus: dau
Arabic: وَرَقَة f (waraqa) Hijazi Arabic: وَرَقة f (waraga)
Aragonese: fuella (an) f
Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܛܪܦܐ m (ṭarpā)
Argobba: ቅጠል (qəțäl)
Armenian: տերեւ (hy) (terew)
Aromanian: frãndzã f, frundzã f
Ashkun: pār
Asi: rahon, dahon
Assamese: পাত n (pat)
Asturian: fueya (ast) f
Atayal: abau
Aymara: laphi (ay)
Azerbaijani: yarpaq (az)
Bahnar: hla
Balinese: don
Bangi: zasa
Bashkir: япраҡ (yapraq)
Basque: hosto (eu), orri (eu)
Belarusian: ліст m (list)
Bengali: পাতা (bn) (pata)
Bhojpuri: पान (pān)
Bole: kumi rewe
Breton: delienn (br) f
Buginese: daung
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m (list), листо́ (bg) n (listó)
Burmese: အရွက် (my) (a.rwak)
Buryat: набша (nabša), набшаһан (nabšahan), намаа (namaa)
Butuanon: dahon
Catalan: fulla (ca) f
Cebuano: dahon
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⴼⵔ m (ifr)
Cham: Eastern Cham: ꨈꨶꨮꩉ, ꨨꨤꨩ
Chamicuro: chijpana
Chavacano: ohas
Chechen: гӏа (ğa)
Cherokee: ᎤᎦᎶᎬ (ugalogv)
Chichewa: tsamba
Chinese: Cantonese: 葉 / 叶 (yue) (jip6), 葉子 / 叶子 (jip6 zi2) Dungan: еезы (i͡əi͡əzɨ), еер (i͡əi͡ər), езы (i͡əzɨ) Eastern Min: 箬箬 (niŏh-niŏh) Gan: 葉子 / 叶子 (iet6 zi / iet7 zi) Hakka: 葉 / 叶 (ya̍p) Hokkien: 葉 / 叶 (zh-min-nan) (ia̍p), 葉仔 / 叶仔 (zh-min-nan) (hio̍h-á) Jin: 葉子 / 叶子 (ieh4 zeh) Mandarin: 葉 / 叶 (zh) (yè), 葉子 / 叶子 (zh) (yèzi) Northern Min: 箬 (niò̤), 箬仔 (niò̤-ciě) Wu: 葉 / 叶 (8yiq), 葉子 / 叶子 Xiang: 葉子 / 叶子 (ie6 zr)
Chuvash: ҫулҫӑ (śulś̬ă)
Comorian: Maore Comorian: wani class 11/6 Ngazidja Comorian: wani class 11/10
Cornish: del (collective), delen f
Corsican: foglia (co) f
Cree: Plains Cree: nīpiy
Czech: list (cs) m
Dalmatian: fualja f
Danish: blad (da) n, løv n
Dongxiang: lachin
Drung: vng'lvp
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Egyptian:

(gꜣbt)
Enga: yoko
Erzya: лопа (lopa)
Esperanto: folio (eo)
Estonian: leht (et)
Even: эбдэнрэ (əʙdənrə)
Evenki: авданна (awdanna)
Ewe: aŋgba
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: blað n
Fijian: drau (fj)
Finnish: lehti (fi)
Fon: ama
Franco-Provençal: fôlye f
French: feuille (fr) f Old French: fueille f
Frisian: Saterland Frisian: Blääd n West Frisian: blêd
Friulian: fuee f
Fula: Adlam: 𞤸𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮, 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮𞤤 Latin: haako, kaakol
Fuyug: hutu
Galician: folla (gl) f
Ge'ez: ቈጽል (ḳʷäṣl)
Georgian: ფოთოლი (ka) (potoli)
German: Blatt (de) n, Laubblatt (de) n Alemannic German: Blatt n Central Franconian: Blatt n
Gilaki: ولگ
Greek: φύλλο (el) n (fýllo) Ancient Greek: φύλλον n (phúllon), πέταλον n (pétalon)
Greenlandic: pilu
Guarani: Mbya Guarani: ogue Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) togue (gn)
Gujarati: પાન f (pān), પર્ણ n (parṇ), પાંદડું n (pā̃dḍũ), દલ (dal)
Gwich'in: chʼatʼan
Haitian Creole: fèy
Hausa: ganye (ha), warƙa
Hawaiian: lau
Hebrew: עָלֶה (he) m (alé)
Higaonon: dahon
Hiligaynon: dahon
Hindi: पत्ता (hi) m (pattā), पत्ती (hi) f (pattī)
Hiri Motu: raurau
Hmong: White Hmong: nplooj
Hopi: nàapi
Hungarian: levél (hu), falevél (hu)
Hunsrik: plaat
Icelandic: lauf (is) n, laufblað (is) n
Ido: folio (io)
Igbo: akwụkwọ (ig)
Ilocano: bulong
Indonesian: daun (id)
Ineseño: qap
Ingrian: lehti
Interlingua: folio
Inuktitut: ᐊᑭᕈᐊᕈᖅ (akiroaroq)
Iranun: raun
Irish: duilleog (ga) f, bileog (ga) f
Italian: foglia (it) f
Iu Mien: normh
Japanese: 葉 (ja) (は, ha), 葉っぱ (ja) (はっぱ, happa), 木の葉 (ja) (このは, konoha)
Jarai: hla
Javanese: godhong (jv), ron Old Javanese: ron
Jeju: 섭 (seop)
Jingpho: lap
Kamkata-viri: por
Kannada: ಎಲೆ (kn) (ele)
Kapampangan: bulung
Karelian: lehti
Karen: S'gaw Karen: သ့ၣ်လၣ် (thaỳ là)
Kashubian: lëst
Kazakh: жапырақ (japyraq)
Khasi: sla
Khmer: ស្លឹក (km) (slək), ស្លឹកឈើ (slək chəə)
Kikai: 葉 (ぱー, pā)
Kikuyu: ithangũ class 5
Kiput: dun
Komi: Komi-Permyak: кор (kor)
Konkani: पाल्लो (pāllo)
Korean: 잎 (ko) (ip)
Kumyk: япыракъ (yapıraq)
Kunigami: 葉 (ぱー, phā)
Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گەڵا (ckb) (gella) Laki: گِڵا (gilla), ڤەڵگ (vellg) Northern Kurdish: belg (ku) m, pel (ku) m Southern Kurdish: گِڵا (gilla), وەڵگ (wellg)
Kyrgyz: жалбырак (ky) (jalbırak)
Ladino: foja f, yaprak m
Lakota: wahpe, ape
Lao: ໃບ (bai), ໃບໄມ້ (lo) (bai mai)
Latgalian: lopa f
Latin: folium (la) n, frons f
Latvian: lapa (lv) f
Ligurian: féuggia f
Limburgish: louf (li) n
Lingala: nkásá class 9/10, lokásá class 11/10
Linngithigh: thondh
Lithuanian: lapas (lt) m
Lombard: foeuja f, fòia f
Low German: German Low German: Blatt n
Lü: ᦺᦢ (ḃay)
Luganda: ekikoola
Luhya: lisafu
Lutuv: hnaa
Luxembourgish: Blat n
Macedonian: лист (mk) m (list)
Maguindanao: laun
Malagasy: ravina (mg), ravina (mg)
Malay: daun (ms) Brunei Malay: daun
Malayalam: ഇല (ml) (ila)
Maltese: werqa f
Manchu: ᠠᠪᡩᠠᡥᠠ (abdaha)
Mansi: Northern Mansi: (please verify) лӯпта (lūpta)
Manx: duillag f
Māori: rau (mi), tawhera
Maranao: ra'on
Marathi: पर्ण n (parṇa), पत्र (mr) n (patra), दल (mr) n (dal)
Mari: Eastern Mari: лышташ (lyštaš) Western Mari: ӹлӹштӓш (ÿlÿštäš)
Megleno-Romanian: frunză f
Melanau: Central Melanau: daun
Middle English: leef, blad
Minangkabau: daun (min)
Mirandese: fuolha f
Miyako: 葉 (ぱー, pā)
Mizo: hnah
Mòcheno: lap n
Mohegan-Pequot: wunipaq
Moksha: лопа (lopa)
Mon: သၠ (hlaˀ)
Mongolian: Cyrillic: навч (mn) (navč) Mongolian script: ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢ (nabči)
Motu: rau
Muong: lả
Nahuatl: izhuatl (nah)
Nanai: хабдата (habdata)
Navajo: atʼąąʼ
Nepali: पात (ne) (pāt)
Nicobarese: Central Nicobarese: dai
Niuean: lau
Norman: (Jersey) fielle f, (Guernsey) fieille f, (Continental Norman) fuule f, (Sark) fiëly f
Norwegian: Bokmål: blad (no) n, løv (no) n (dead) Nynorsk: blad n, lauv n
Occitan: fuèlha (oc) f
Odia: ପତ୍ର (or) (patra)
Ojibwe: aniibiishibag, aniibiishibagoon pl, aniibiish, aniibiishan pl, ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔑᐸᐟ (aniibiishibag), ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔑᐸᑯᐣ pl (aniibiishibagoon), ᐊᓂᐱᐦᐡ (aniibiish), ᐊᓂᐱᐦᔕᐣ pl (aniibiishan)
Okinawan: 葉 (ふぁー, fā)
Okinoerabu: 葉 (はー, fā)
Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: листъ m (listŭ) Glagolitic: ⰾⰹⱄⱅⱏ m (listŭ)
Old East Slavic: листъ m (listŭ)
Old English: lēaf (ang) n
Old Tupi: oba
Omaha-Ponca: 'ábe
Oneida: ónlahteʼ
Osage: žąąpé
Ossetian: сыф (syf)
Pacoh: ula, ila
Palauan: llel
Pali: paṇṇa n Burmese: ပဏ္ဏ n (paṇṇa) Devanagari: पण्ण n (paṇṇa) Khmer: បណ្ណ n (paṇṇa) Sinhalese: පණ්ණ n (paṇṇa) Thai: ปณฺณ n (paṇṇa)
Pannonian Rusyn: лїст m (ljist)
Papiamentu: foya
Pashto: پاڼه (ps) f (pâṇa)
Pela: a³¹ faʔ⁵⁵, sak⁵⁵ faʔ⁵⁵
Pennsylvania German: Blatt n
Persian: Dari: بَرْگ (barg) Iranian Persian: بَرْگ (barg), پَر (par)
Piedmontese: feuja f
Pipil: iswat, izhuat
Plautdietsch: Blaut n
Polish: liść (pl) m
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Prasuni: pārag
Punjabi: ਪੱਤਾ m (pattā)
Quapaw: apé, žǫ́ape
Quechua: raphi, llaqhi
Rapa Nui: rua
Rohingya: fata
Romagnol: fója f
Romani: patrin f
Romanian: frunză (ro) f
Romansch: fegl
Russian: лист (ru) m (list), plural for this sense: ли́стья (ru) m pl (lístʹja)
Saho: dharhaa
Sami: Northern Sami: lasta
Samoan: lau
Sanskrit: पर्ण (sa) n (parṇá), पत्र (sa) n (patra)
Sardinian: fògia f
Scottish Gaelic: duille f, duilleag f
Semai: sela
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ли̑ст m, ли̏ска f Latin: lȋst (sh) m, lȉska (sh) f
Shan: မႂ် (shn) (mǎue), ဝႂ် (shn) (wǎue)
Shona: shizha
Sicilian: fogghia (scn) f
Sindhi: پَنُ m (panu)
Sinhalese: කොළේ (koḷē), කොළය (koḷaya)
Slovak: list (sk) m
Slovene: list (sl) m
Slovincian: lëst m
Somali: caleen (so) f
Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: list m Upper Sorbian: list m
Spanish: hoja (es) f, foja f (desus.), fronda (es) f, coscoja (es) f (dry)
Sundanese: daun (su)
Swahili: jani (sw) class 5/6, msahafu (sw) class 3/4
Swedish: blad (sv) n, löv (sv) n
Tagalog: dahon (tl)
Tahitian: rau
Tai Nüa: ᥛᥬ (maue)
Tajik: барг (tg) (barg)
Talysh: livə, لیو
Tamil: இலை (ta) (ilai)
Taos: ə̂na
Tarantino: fogghie f
Tarifit: afar m, tifrešt f
Tat: vəlg
Tatar: яфрак (tt) (yafraq)
Tausug: dahun
Tày: bâư
Telugu: ఆకు (te) (āku)
Temiar: sela
Tetum: roo
Thai: ใบ (th) (bai), ใบไม้ (th) (bai-máai)
Tibetan: ལོ་མ། (lo ma)
Tlingit: kayaaní
Tocharian A: pält
Tocharian B: pilta
Tok Pisin: lip
Tokunoshima: 葉 (はー, hā)
Tongan: lau
Tooro: ibabi class 5
Tregami: påṭ
Tulu: ಅಡಿಪಿರೆ (aḍipire)
Turkish: yaprak (tr) Ottoman Turkish: یپراق (yaprak)
Turkmen: ýaprak
Tuvaluan: lau
Udi: хазал (ꭓazal)
Udmurt: куар (kuar)
Ukrainian: лист (uk) m (lyst)
Urdu: پَتّی f (pattī), بَرْگ m (barg)
Uyghur: يوپۇرماق (yopurmaq), ياپراق (yapraq)
Uzbek: yaproq (uz), barg (uz)
Venetan: foja (vec) f, fogia f
Veps: leht
Vietnamese: lá (vi)
Vilamovian: błot n
Volapük: bled (vo)
Võro: leht'
Votic: lehto
Waigali: poṭ
Walloon: foye (wa) f
Waray-Waray: dáhon
Welsh: dail (cy) f pl
Woiwurrung: jerrang
Wolof: xob (wo)
Xhosa: igqabi class 5/6
Yaeyama: 葉 (ぱー, pā)
Yakut: сэбирдэх (sebirdeq)
Yámana: Suka
Yiddish: בלאַט m or f (blat)
Yonaguni: 葉 (はー, hā)
Yoron: 葉 (ぱー, pā)
Yoruba: ewé
Yurok: kaap'
Záparo: wíka
Zazaki: pelg (diq) m
Zealandic: blad n
Zhuang: mbaw
Zulu: ikhasi (zu) class 5/6, iqabi (zu) class 5/6

anything resembling the leaf of a plant

Afrikaans: blaar (af)
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m (list)
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Finnish: lehti (fi)
French: feuille (fr) f
Greek: φύλλο (el) n (fýllo)
Malay: dedaun
Norwegian: blad (no) n
Russian: лист (ru) m (list), plural for this sense: листы́ m pl (listý)
Telugu: ఆకు (te) (āku)
Tok Pisin: lip

sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin

Afrikaans: blad (af)
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m (list)
Finnish: lehti (fi)
French: feuille (fr) f, feuille (fr)
Greek: φύλλο (el) n (fýllo) Ancient Greek: πέταλον n (pétalon)
Hindi: पत्ती (hi) f (pattī)
Hungarian: fémfüst
Italian: foglia (it) f
Japanese: 箔 (ja) (はく, haku)
Macedonian: лист (mk) m (list)
Middle English: foyle
Norwegian: Bokmål: folie (no) m
Persian: برگ (fa) (barg)
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Romanian: folie (ro) f
Russian: лист (ru) m (list), plural for this sense: листы́ m pl (listý)
Spanish: hoja (es) f
Swedish: yta (sv) c, skikt (sv) n, lager (sv) n

sheet of a book

Afrikaans: blad (af), bladsy (af)
Arabic: (please verify) وَرَقَة f (waraqa), (please verify) أَوْرَاق pl (ʔawrāq) , صَحِيفَة (ṣaḥīfa)
Armenian: էջ (hy) (ēǰ), տերեւ (hy) (terew)
Aromanian: acoalã f, frãndzã f, carti f, filã f
Azerbaijani: vərəq (az), yarpaq (az)
Bashkir: бит (bit)
Bulgarian: лист (bg) m (list)
Buryat: xуудаһан (xuudahan), лиис (liis)
Catalan: full (ca) m
Chichewa: tsamba
Czech: list (cs) m
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Finnish: lehti (fi), sivu (fi)
French: feuille (fr) f, feuillet (fr) m
Galician: folla (gl) f
German: Blatt (de) n
Greek: φύλλο (el) n (fýllo)
Hindi: पन्ना (hi) m (pannā)
Hungarian: lap (hu)
Ingrian: lehti
Italian: foglio (it) m
Japanese: 一枚 (ja) (いちまい, ichimai)
Khmer: ស្លឹក (km) (slək)
Korean: 낱장 (natjang)
Latin: scheda f, pagina (la) f
Latvian: lapa (lv) f, loksne (lv) f
Lithuanian: lapas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Blat n
Macedonian: лист (mk) m (list)
Māori: whārangi (mi)
Mongolian: Cyrillic: хуудас (mn) (xuudas)
Norwegian: Bokmål: ark (no) n
Persian: برگ (fa) (barg)
Polish: kartka (pl) f
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Romanian: foaie (ro) f
Russian: лист (ru) m (list), plural for this sense: листы́ m pl (listý)
Scottish Gaelic: duilleag f
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ли̑ст m Latin: lȋst (sh) m
Sicilian: fogghiu (scn) m
Slovak: list (sk) m
Slovene: list (sl) m
Spanish: hoja (es) f, folio (es) m
Swahili: (please verify) gombo, (noun 5/6) (please verify) magombo pl , (please verify) ukurasa (sw), (noun 11/10) (please verify) kurasa (sw) pl
Swedish: blad (sv) n
Tagalog: pahina (tl)
Tarifit: afar m
Tày: bâư
Telugu: పత్రం (te) (patraṁ)
Thai: ใบ (th) (bai)
Turkish: yaprak (tr) Ottoman Turkish: یپراق (yaprak)
Volapük: bedastofed (vo)
Zulu: ikhasi (zu) class 5/6

tea leaves — see tea leaf flat section used to extend a table

Afrikaans: blad (af)
Bulgarian: разширение (bg) n (razširenie)
Dutch: blad (nl) n, plaat (nl) f
Esperanto: klapo
Finnish: jatkokappale, jatkolevy, jatko (fi)
French: rallonge (fr) f, plateau (fr)
German: Platte (de) f
Greek: φύλλο (el) n (fýllo)
Hungarian: vendéglap, betét (hu)
Italian: prolunga (it) f
Macedonian: крило (mk) n (krilo)
Norwegian: Bokmål: blad (no) n
Portuguese: aba (pt) f
Russian: лист (ru) m (list), plural: ли́стья (ru) m pl (lístʹja)
Spanish: tablero (es) m
Swedish: klaff (sv) c, skiva (sv) c

moveable panel of a bridge or door

Afrikaans: blad (af)
Bulgarian: крило (bg) n (krilo)
Finnish: läppä (fi), levy (fi), paneeli (fi)
French: battant (fr) m, ouvrant (fr) m, vantail (fr) m
Hindi: पल्ला (hi) m (pallā)
Hungarian: szárny (hu), ajtószárny (hu)
Irish: comhla f
Javanese: godhong (jv)
Latin: foris (la) f
Scottish Gaelic: (of a door) còmhla f, duille-dorais f, dor-dhuille f, duilleag-còmhla f
Spanish: hoja (es) f, tablero móvil m (of a bridge)
Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: قناد (kanad)

computing, mathematics: tree node without descendants

Bulgarian: листо (bg) n (listo)
Dutch: blad (nl) n
Finnish: lehti (fi)
French: feuille (fr)
German: Blatt (de) n
Italian: foglia (it)
Norwegian: Bokmål: løv (no) n
Polish: liść (pl) m
Portuguese: folha (pt) f
Spanish: hoja (es) f

layer supporting the kidney of a pig — see leaf fat

Verb

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leaf (third-person singular simple present leafs, present participle leafing, simple past and past participle leafed)

(intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:Then flowered the mead, then leafed all'Twas caused by the runic lay.
(transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.
(informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.

Synonyms

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leave (verb)

Derived terms

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leafing
leaf through

Translations

[edit] to produce leaves

Bulgarian: разлиствам се (razlistvam se)
Dutch: bladeren (nl) krijgen (nl)
Finnish: lehtiä
French: feuiller (fr)
Hungarian: levelet hoz/hajt, levelesedik (hu), leveledzik (hu), (tree/bush) lombosodik (hu)
Latin: frondēscō
Macedonian: разлистува (razlistuva)
Norwegian: Bokmål: løves, lauve Nynorsk: lauvast, lauve
Slovene: olistati se
Swedish: lövas, spricka ut

References

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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 337

Anagrams

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Lafe, alef, feal, flea

Old English

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /læ͜ɑːf/

Etymology 1

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From Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą. Cognate with Old Saxon lōf, Old High German loub, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

Noun

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lēaf n

leaf
page

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular	plural
nominative	lēaf	lēaf
accusative	lēaf	lēaf
genitive	lēafes	lēafa
dative	lēafe	lēafum

Descendants

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Middle English: leef, lefe, leve, lewe
- English: leaf
  - Tok Pisin: lip
- Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
- Yola: laafe

Etymology 2

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From Proto-West Germanic *laubu. Cognate with German Laube.

Alternative forms

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lǣf, līf

Noun

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lēaf f

permission

Declension

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Strong ō-stem:

singular	plural
nominative	lēaf	lēafa, lēafe
accusative	lēafe	lēafa, lēafe
genitive	lēafe	lēafa
dative	lēafe	lēafum

Descendants

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Middle English: leve, lefe
- English: leave
- Scots: leve, leiv

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English leef, lefe, lef, from Old English lēaf.

Noun

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leaf (plural leafs)

alternative form of leif (“leaf”)

West Frisian

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /lɪə̯f/

Etymology 1

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From Old Frisian lāf.

Noun

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leaf n (plural leaven, diminutive leafke)

leaf, especially a long leaf, like a blade of grass

Etymology 2

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From Old Frisian liāf.

Adjective

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leaf

friendly, kind, cordial

Inflection

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Inflection of leaf
uninflected	leaf
inflected	leave
comparative	leaver
positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		leaf	leaver	it leafstit leafste
indefinite	c. sing.	leave	leavere	leafste
	n. sing.	leaf	leaver	leafste
	plural	leave	leavere	leafste
definite		leave	leavere	leafste
partitive		leafs	leavers	—

Derived terms

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leafde
leafhawwe
leavehearsbistke

English

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Further reading

Anagrams

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Descendants

Etymology 2

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Noun

Declension

Descendants

Scots

Etymology

Noun

West Frisian

Pronunciation

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