# small
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Low German small (“narrow”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ма́лый (mályj, “small”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK)
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /smɔːl/ [smoːɫ]
** Audio (UK); [smoːw]:(file)
* Audio:(file)
** Rhymes: -ɔːl
* (US)
** (General American) IPA: /smɔl/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /smɑl/
** Audio (US); [smɑɫ]:(file)
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /smoːl/
* (Canada) IPA: [smɔːɫ]

### Adjective

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
* Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
    Synonyms: little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also Thesaurus:small
    Antonyms: big, (said of an amount of something given) generous, large; see also Thesaurus:large
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
** 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
** 2020 August 13, Ashley Strickland, “The reason we’re shooting laser beams between Earth and the moon”, in CNN‎:The orbiter has been observing the moon since 2009, and its reflector is a smaller version of reflector panels placed on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 landings on the moon. Soviet lunar robotic landers sent in 1970 and 1973 also carried smaller reflectors.
** 2024 October 4, Chris Lau and Nodoka Katsura, “This is the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works”, in CNN‎:Guinness World Record confirmed the micro-cube as the world’s smallest rotating puzzle cube in August.
    A small serving of ice cream.
    A small group.
** Humiliated or insignificant.
    The bullies had succeeded in making him feel small.
*** 2015, Justin Bieber, Love Yourself:For all the times that you made me feel small / I fell in love, now I feel nothing at all
** Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
    Synonyms: little, under-endowed (of genitals)
    Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress.
* (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
    Synonyms: little, (Scottish) wee, young
    Antonyms: adult, grown-up, old
    Remember when the children were small?
* (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
    Synonyms: lowercase, minuscule
    Antonyms: big, capital, majuscule, uppercase
** 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 584:"I've got catholic tastes. Catholic with a small "c", of course."
* Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
** 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
* Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
    a small space of time
* Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”)
    small science
* (archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.
* (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
    I'll have a small coffee, thanks.

#### Derived terms

* a small matter
* Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse
* besmall
* be thankful for small mercies
* better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness
* big fish in a small pond
* big things come in small packages
* caps and small caps
* don't sweat the small stuff
* double small pica
* ensmallen
* extra extra extra small
* extra extra small
* extra small
* extra-small
* good things come in small packages
* in no small measure
* in no small part
* in small doses
* it's a small world
* Khitan small script
* locally small
* nonsmall
* no small feat
* oversmall
* play small
* programming in the small
* sing small
* small ad
* smallage
* small ale
* small and early
* small and medium-sized enterprise
* small animal
* small appliance
* small arm
* small arms
* smallball
* small ball
* Small Banisilan
* small beer
* small bikkies
* small-billed tinamou
* small blind
* small block
* small blue
* Smallbone
* small-bore
* small bowel
* small breasts
* small brown crow
* small business
* small calorie
* small cap
* small-cap
* small capital
* small capitals
* smallcapped
* small caps
* small carpetgrass
* small category
* small-c conservative
* small-cell carcinoma
* small-cell lung cancer
* small change
* small chops
* small circle
* small claims court
* small clause
* smallclothes
* small coal
* smallcoat
* small copper
* small craft, smallcraft
* small crumbweed
* small cubicuboctahedron
* small d democrat
* small-d democrat
* small "d" democrat
* small-dick energy
* small dick energy
* small dog syndrome
* small-eared dog
* small-eared galago
* smallen
* small end of the wedge
* smaller European elm bark beetle
* small fat
* small final
* small firm effect
* Small Flowery Miao
* smallfolk
* small fortune
* small forward
* small fry
* small game
* smallgood
* small goods
* smallgoods
* small gross
* small hand
* small hat
* small heath
* Small Heath
* smallholder
* small holding
* smallholding
* small hours
* Small Hythe
* small icosihemidodecahedron
* smallie
* small if
* smallify
* small interfering RNA
* small intestine
* small investor
* smallish
* Small Isles
* Small Kapataga
* small leader
* small leaved lilly pilly
* small letter
* small-l liberal
* small "l" liberal
* small l liberal
* small l libertarian
* small-l libertarian
* small "l" libertarian
* small loop
* Smallman
* small man syndrome
* small-minded
* small-mindedly
* small-mindedness
* small minivet
* small miracle
* small molecule drug
* smallmouth
* smallmouth bass
* smallmouth black bass
* smallness
* small nightshade
* small nuclear ribonucleoprotein
* small or medium-sized enterprise
* small packet
* Small Party of Good Boys
* small penis humiliation
* small penis syndrome
* small pica
* small plate
* small pock
* small potatoes
* small-potatoes
* small pox
* smallpox
* small-pox
* small press
* small print
* small rain lays great dust
* small reed
* small-reed
* small room
* small "r" republican
* small-r republican
* small r republican
* smalls
* small saphenous vein
* smallsat
* small scale
* small-scale
* small-scaled snake
* small screen
* small seal script
* small shellies
* small-sized
* small skipper
* small slam
* small-small
* small Solar System body
* smallsome
* small-spotted catshark
* small stuff
* smallsword
* small talk
* small-talk
* small-talker
* small text
* small-ticket
* small time
* small-time
* smalltime
* small-timer
* Smalltimore
* small-toothed palm civet
* small tortoiseshell
* small-town
* small town
* smalltown
* small-towner
* small-townish
* small-townism
* small ubiquitin-related modifier
* small unmarked bills
* small, unmarked bills
* Smallville
* smallware
* small white
* small wonder
* small words
* small world
* small-worldness
* small-world network
* small-world phenomenon
* smally
* some small matter
* supersmall
* sweat the small stuff
* ultrasmall
* unmarked small bills
* unsmall
* wee small hour
* wee small hours
* what a small world

#### Translations

Afrikaans: klein (af)
Ainu: ノカン
Albanian: i vogël
Amharic: ትንሽ (tənš)
Arabic: صَغِير (ṣaḡīr)
Egyptian Arabic: صغير (ṣuḡayyar)
Hijazi Arabic: صغير m (ṣaḡīr)
Moroccan Arabic: صغير (ṣḡīr)
South Levantine Arabic: زغير (zḡīr)
Aragonese: chiquet
Aramaic:
Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro), קטנה f (katanah), קטנים m pl (katanim), קטנות f pl (katanot)
Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
Armenian: փոքր (hy) (pʻokʻr), մանր (hy) (manr), (colloquial) պուճուր (hy) (pučur)
Aromanian: njic
Assamese: সৰু (xoru)
Asturian: pequeñu (ast)
Aymara: jisk'a (ay)
Azerbaijani: kiçik (az), balaca (az), xırda (az), ufaq
Bashkir: бәләкәй (bələkəy), бәләкәс (bələkəs), кесе (kese), кескәй (keskəy)
Basque: txiki (eu)
Belarusian: мале́нькі (be) (maljénʹki), малы́ (malý)
Bengali: ছোট (bn) (chōṭ)
Bhojpuri: छोट (chōṭ)
Breton: bihan (br)
Brunei Malay: damit
Bulgarian: ма́лък (bg) (málǎk)
Burmese: သေး (my) (se:), နုပ် (my) (nup)
Buryat: бишыхан (bišyxan) (Russian Buryat)
Carpathian Rusyn: малый (malŷj)
Catalan: petit (ca)
Cebuano: gamay
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⵥⵢⴰⵏ m (amẓyan)
Chamicuro: na'yejchoma
Chavacano: chico
Chechen: жима (žima), кегий pl (kegii)
Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏗ (usdi)
Chichewa: -ng'ono
Chickasaw: ishkanno'si'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 細 / 细 (yue) (sai$^3$)
Dungan: щё (xi͡o)
Eastern Min: 細 / 细 (sá̤)
Hakka: 細 / 细 (se)
Hokkien: 細 / 细 (zh-min-nan) (sè, suè)
Mandarin: 小 (zh) (xiǎo)
Wu: 小
Chuvash: пӗчӗк (pĕč̬ĕk)
Cornish: bian
Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
Czech: malý (cs) m
Dalmatian: pedlo
Danish: lille (da), liden
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: klein (nl), nietig (nl), minuscuul (nl)
Eastern Arrernte: akweke
Egyptian: (nḏs)
Erzya: вишка (viška), вишкине (viškine)
Eshtehardi: خوردیک (xurdik)
Esperanto: malgranda (eo)
Estonian: väike (et)
Ewe: sue
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: lítil (fo)
Finnish: pieni (fi)
French: petit (fr), minuscule (fr)
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: pequeno (gl)
Georgian: პატარა (ka) (ṗaṭara), მცირე (mcire)
German: klein (de), gering (de)
Alemannic German: chlii
Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils)
Greek: μικρός (el) (mikrós)
Ancient: μικρός (mikrós), (Epic) τυτθός (tutthós)
Doric: μικκός (mikkós)
Gujarati: નાનું (gu) (nānũ)
Hausa: ƙure
Hawaiian: liʻiliʻi
Hebrew: קָטָן (he) (katán)
Hindi: छोटा (hi) (choṭā), क्षुद्र (hi) (kṣudra), छोट (hi) (choṭ), नन्हा (hi) (nanhā), सगीर (hi) (sagīr)
Hungarian: kicsi (hu), kis (hu)
Icelandic: smár (is), lítill (is)
Ido: mikra (io)
Igbo: ńta
Ilocano: bassit
Indonesian: kecil (id)
Ingush: зӏамига (zˀamiga)
Interlingua: parve (ia)
Irish: beag
Old Irish: bec
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Istriot: peîcio
Italian: piccolo (it), ristretto (it)
Japanese: 小さい (ja) (ちいさい, chiisai), (for area size)狭い (ja) (せまい; semai)
Javanese: cilik (jv), alit
Kalmyk: бичкн (biçkn)
Karachay-Balkar: гитче (gitçe)
Kashubian: môłi
Kazakh: кіші (kışı), кішкене (kışkene), ұсақ (ūsaq)
Khakas: кічіг (kìçìg), кічиӌек (kìçicek)
Khiamniungan Naga: hà
Khmer: តូច (km) (touc)
Korean: 작다 (ko) (jakda), 작은 (ko) (jageun) (determiner)
Koryak: тэгʼыйчыгʼын (tehəjčəhən), ныппулюӄин (nəppuĺuqin)
Kumyk: гиччи (giççi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بچووک (ckb) (bçûk)
Northern Kurdish: çûçik (ku), çûk (ku), piçûk (ku), qicik (ku)
Kyrgyz: кичине (ky) (kicine), кичинекей (ky) (kicinekey)
Laboya: maraha
Ladin: pitl (Gherdëina)
Lao: ນ້ອຽ (nǭi), ນ້ອຍ (nǭi)
Latgalian: mozs
Latin: parvus (la), paulus
Latvian: mazs (lv) m
Lutuv: taa
Lithuanian: mažas (lt)
Lü: ᦓᦾᧉ (noay²)
Luganda: -tono
Luxembourgish: kleng (lb)
Macedonian: мал m (mal)
Malay: kecil (ms)
Malayalam: ചെറിയ (ml) (ceṟiya)
Maltese: żgħir m
Manchu: ᠠᠵᡳᡤᡝ (ajige)
Manx: beg
Maori: iti
Mapudungun: pichi, pici
Marathi: छोटा m (choṭā), छोटी (choṭī), छोटे n (choṭe), लहान (lahān)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: изи (izi)
Marshallese: dik
Minangkabau: kaciak (min), ketek (min), kenek (min)
Mingrelian: ჭიჭე (č̣ič̣e)
Mirandese: pequeinho
Miskito: sirpi
Mòcheno: khloa'n
Moksha: ёмла (jomla)
Mongolian: жижиг (mn) (žižig)
Nanai: нучи (nuči)
Neapolitan: piccere f
Ngazidja Comorian: -fupvi
Norman: p'tit (Guernsey, Jersey)
Northern Mansi: ма̄нь (mānʹ)
Northern Ohlone: kutsú̆̄wis
Northern Sami: unni, uhcci
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: liten (no)
Occitan: pichon (oc), pichòt (oc), petit (oc)
Odia: ଛୋଟ (or) (choṭa), କ୍ଷୁଦ୍ର (or) (kshudra)
Old Church Slavonic: малъ (malŭ)
Old East Slavic: малъ (malŭ)
Old English: lȳtel
Oromo: yartuu
Ottoman Turkish: كوچوك (küçük)
Pangasinan: muelag
Pashto: وړوکی (waṛukay), کوچنی (kučnay)
Persian: کوچک (fa) (kučak), خرد (fa) (xord), که (fa) (kah), سوتام (fa) (sutâm), ریز (fa)
Polish: mały (pl)
Portuguese: pequeno (pt)
Punjabi: ਛੋੱਟਾ (choṭṭā)
Quechua: juch'uy (qu)
Rapa Nui: iti
Romagnol: znén
Romani: tikno
Romanian: mic (ro)
Romansch: pitschen
Russian: ма́ленький (ru) (málenʹkij), ма́лый (ru) (mályj)
Rwanda-Rundi: -toya
Samoan: sogi
Sanskrit: अर्भ (sa) (arbha), अल्प (sa) (álpa), स्वल्प (sa) (svalpa)
Santali: ᱯᱤᱞᱪᱩ (pilcu)
Scots: (standard, Ulster) wee, (modern Orkney) peedie, (Shetland, archaic Orkney) peerie
Scottish Gaelic: beag (gd)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̑л
Roman: mȃl (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Shor: кичиг (kiçig)
Sicilian: nicu (scn)
Sidamo: shiima
Sindhi: نَنڍو
Sinhalese: කුඩා (si) (kuḍā)
Slovak: malý (sk)
Slovene: majhen (sl)
Somali: kis, yar (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mały
Upper Sorbian: mały m
Southern Altai: кичинек (kičinek)
Spanish: pequeño (es), chico (es), parvo (es)
Sundanese: alit (su)
Svan: კოტო̄ლ (ḳoṭōl), მო̄ლე (mōle)
Swahili: -dogo
Swedish: liten (sv)
Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠞꠥ (huru)
Tabasaran: бицӏи (bic̣i)
Tagalog: maliit
Tahitian: iti
Tajik: хурд (tg) (xurd)
Tamil: சிறிய் (ciṟiy), சிறிய (ta) (ciṟiya), சிறிய (ta) (ciṟiya), சின்ன (ta) (ciṉṉa)
Tarantino: piccele
Tarifit: ameẓẓyan m
Tashelhit: ⴰⵎⵥⵉ m (amẓi)
Tatar: кече (keçe), кечек (keçek), бәләкәй (bäläkäy)
Telugu: చిన్న (te) (cinna)
Ternate: ici
Tetum: ki'ik
Thai: เล็ก (th) (lék)
Tibetan: ཆུང་ཆུང (chung chung)
Tocharian B: yekte, totka
Tok Pisin: liklik
Tongan: si'i
Turkish: küçük (tr), ufak (tr)
Turkmen: kiçi
Tuvan: биче (biçe)
Udi: пӏатӏар (ṗaṭar)
Udmurt: пичи (pići)
Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎙𐎗 (ṣġr)
Ukrainian: мале́нький (malénʹkyj), мали́й (uk) (malýj)
Urdu: چھوٹا (ur) (choṭā)
Uyghur: كىچىك (ug) (kichik)
Uzbek: kichik (uz)
Venda: ṱuku
Venetan: picenìn
Vietnamese: nhỏ (vi), bé (vi)
Volapük: smalik (vo)
Walloon: pitit (wa) m
Waray-Waray: gu-ti-ay, di-to
Welsh: bach (cy), bychan (cy), mân (cy)
West Frisian: lyts (fy)
White Hmong: me
Wolof: tooty
Wutunhua: ga
Xhosa: -nci
Yakut: кыра (kıra), аччыгый (accıgıy)
Yámana: yaxa
Yiddish: קליין (kleyn)
Yup'ik: -cuar
Zealandic: klein, kleên (dialectal variant), smal (mostly obsolete)
Zhuang: iq
Zulu: -ncane
Zuni: ts'ana
ǃKung: tse-ma :
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### Adverb

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)
* In a small fashion
    Don't write very small!
* In or into small pieces.
** 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)
    That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.
* (obsolete) To a small extent.
** 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 1273:It small avails my mood.
* (obsolete) In a low tone; softly.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 49:That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

#### Derived terms

* writ small

### Noun

small (countable and uncountable, plural smalls) (nominalized)
* (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
    Synonym: S
* (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
    Two smalls and a large, please.
* (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
* (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

#### Derived terms

* small of the back

### Verb

small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)
* (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
* (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
** 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years:And smalled till she was nought at all.

### Anagrams

* malls

## Icelandic
### Verb

small (strong)
* first-person singular past indicative of smella
* third-person singular past indicative of smella

## Low German
### Etymology

From Middle Low German smal, from Old Saxon smal, from Proto-Germanic *smalaz. Cognate with German schmal, Dutch smal, English small.

### Adjective

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallst)
* narrow
* small, slender

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Adjective

small
* Alternative form of smal

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

small
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of smelle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

small
* past tense of smella

## Swedish
### Verb

small
* past indicative of smälla

### Anagrams

* malls

## Yola
### Adjective

small
* Alternative form of smaale
** GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
    A small neal.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58