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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

子羊

Pronunciation / Transliteration: koyhitsuji

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lamb/læm/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #3450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"牧草地で子羊が跳ね回っています。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A young sheep, typically less than one year old.

    "The farmer bottle-fed the newborn lamb in the warm barn."
  2. 2

    The flesh of a young sheep eaten as meat.

    "We had roasted lamb with mint sauce for Sunday dinner."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'lamb', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'lam' and German 'Lamm'. The root is ultimately traceable to Proto-Indo-European *lem-, meaning 'crippled' or 'weak', though historically applied simply to the young of the sheep.

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