# offspring
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- +‎ spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/, /ˈɑfspɹɪŋ/, enPR: äfʹsprĭng
* Rhymes: -ɒfspɹɪŋ, -ɔfspɹɪŋ, -ɑfspɹɪŋ

### Noun

offspring (plural offspring or offsprings)
* A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
* Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
* An animal or plant's progeny or young.
** 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
* (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
    Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
* (computing) A process launched by another process.

#### Usage notes

* The plural offsprings is mainly used for the computing sense.

#### Synonyms

* (daughter(s) and/or son(s)): baby/babies, child/children, fruit of one's loins, issue (plural only), get, kid/kids
* (all descendants): binary clone, descendants, fruit of one's loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “daughter(s) and/or son(s)”): genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female)
* (antonym(s) of “descendants”): ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers

#### Derived terms

* donor offspring
* grandoffspring
* large offspring syndrome
* parent-offspring conflict

#### Translations

Albanian: pasardhës (sq)
Arabic: وَلَد (ar) m (walad)
Gulf Arabic: ضنا m or f (ḏ̣ana)
Armenian: զավակ (hy) (zavak)
Azerbaijani: övlad (az), zadə (az)
Bashkir: бала (bala), нәҫел (nəśel)
Belarusian: пато́мак m (patómak), нашча́дак m (naščádak), нашча́дніца f (naščádnica)
Bengali: সন্তান (bn) (śontan)
Bhojpuri: संतान (santān)
Bulgarian: пото́мък (bg) m (potómǎk)
Chickasaw: inchipota
Chinese:
Mandarin: 子孫 / 子孙 (zh) (zǐsūn)
Czech: potomek (cs) m, potomkyně f
Danish: afkom (da) n
Dutch: afstammeling (nl) m, nageslacht (nl) n, nakomeling (nl) m, nazaat (nl) m, kind (nl) n
Egyptian: (ms)
Esperanto: (♂♀) ido (eo), filo (eo), filino (eo)
Finnish: lapsi (fi), jälkeläinen (fi)
French: enfant (fr) m or f
Georgian: ნაშიერი (našieri), შთამომავალი (štamomavali)
German: Nachkomme (de) m, Nachkommin (de) f, Kind (de) n, Sohn (de) m, Tochter (de) f, Sprössling (de) m
Greek: τέκνο (el) n (tékno), παιδί (el) n (paidí), απόγονος (el) m (apógonos)
Ancient: ἔρνος n (érnos), γονή f (gonḗ)
Higaonon: bata
Hindi: संतान (hi) f (santān)
Hungarian: utód (hu)
Ido: decendanto (io)
Italian: discendente (it) m or f, figlio (it) m, figlia (it) f
Japanese: 胤 (ja) (たね, tane), 子孫 (ja) (しそん, shison), 子種 (こだね, kodane)
Kazakh: әулет (äulet)
Korean: 자녀(子女) (ko) (janyeo), 자식(子息) (ko) (jasik)
Latin: subolēs f
Lutshootseed: bədaʔ
Macedonian: потомок m (potomok)
Malayalam: സന്തതി (ml) (santati), കുഞ്ഞ് (ml) (kuññŭ), കുട്ടി (ml) (kuṭṭi), മകൻ (ml) m (makaṉ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: etterkommer (no) m, avkom n, ætling m, ætting m, barn (no) n
Nynorsk: etterkomar m, etterkommar m, avkom n, ætling m, ætting m, barn n
Oromo: ilmoo
Ottoman Turkish: نسل (nesl), ذریت (zürriyet)
Persian: فرزند (fa) (farzand)
Polish: potomek (pl) m, potomkini f
Portuguese: filho (pt) m, filha (pt) f, rebento (pt) m, vergôntea (pt)
Russian: пото́мок (ru) m (potómok), о́тпрыск (ru) m (ótprysk)
Sanskrit: तनस् (sa) n (tanas)
Santali: ᱜᱳᱱ (gon)
Scottish Gaelic: sliochd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀томак m
Roman: pòtomak (sh) m
Slovak: potomok m, potomkyňa f
Slovene: potomec (sl) m
Spanish: vástago (es) m, descendiente (es) m, sucesor (es) m, sucesor (es) m, sucesora f
Swedish: avkomling (sv) c, avkomma (sv) c, ättling (sv) c
Tagalog: kawil
Tajik: фарзанд (tg) (farzand), насл (tg) (nasl), авлод (avlod)
Taos: ȕʼúna
Turkish: evlat (tr), çocuk (tr)
Ukrainian: наща́док m (naščádok), пото́мок (uk) m (potómok)
Uyghur: ئەۋلاد (ewlad)
Uzbek: avlod (uz)
Welsh: epil m :
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