halfling

halfling

English

Etymology

half +‎ -ling

Noun

halfling (plural halflings)

1. (fantasy) A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
2. (fantasy) A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.
3. A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.
   • 1897, Lady's Realm: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (volume 1, page 52)

     Often it had been my fate to accompany the pick of the knight errantry of Whinnyliggate on such quests—for, though Nance was about my own age, she had become a reigning belle while I was but a halfling boy.

Translations

a hobbit

Chinese: Mandarin: 半身人 (bànshēnrén) Czech: půlčík m French: halfelin m German: Halbling (de) m Italian: mezz'uomo m, halfling Japanese: ハーフリング (hāfuringu) Korean: 하플링 (hapeulling) Polish: niziołek (pl) m, niziołki m pl Russian: полуро́слик (ru) m (poluróslik), ха́флинг m (xáfling) Serbo-Croatian: полушан m (polušan) Swedish: halvkarl c, halvlängdsman c, halvman c, halvmänning c, halvmänniska c, bastard (sv) c, dvärg (sv) c, krympling (sv) c

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