A pygmy is something that is a very small example of its type.
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Pygmy
//ˈpɪɡmi//
Synonyms for "pygmy" (94 found)
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Related words (47)
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60 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πυγμαῖος noun (a member of various African peoples)
- πυγμαῖος noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cırtdan noun (any dwarfish person)
Bulgarian
3 entries- джудже noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- джудже noun (any dwarfish person)
- пигме́й noun (a member of various African peoples)
Catalan
1 entries- pigmeu noun (a member of various African peoples)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 侏儒 noun (a member of various African peoples)
- 侏儒 noun (any dwarfish person)
- 俾格米 noun (a member of various African peoples)
- 矮人 noun (a member of various African peoples)
Czech
1 entries- Pygmej noun (a member of various African peoples)
Danish
1 entries- pygmæ noun (a member of various African peoples)
Dutch
4 entries- dwerg noun (any dwarfish person)
- dwerg noun (an insignificant person)
- pygmee noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pygmee noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
Faroese
1 entries- pygmeur noun (a member of various African peoples)
Finnish
2 entries- kääpiö noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- pygmi noun (a member of various African peoples)
French
1 entries- pygmée noun (a member of various African peoples)
German
1 entries- Pygmäe noun (a member of various African peoples)
Greek
1 entries- πυγμαίος noun (a member of various African peoples)
Hindi
2 entries- बालिश्त noun (any dwarfish person)
- वामन noun (any dwarfish person)
Hungarian
1 entries- pigmeus noun (a member of various African peoples)
Irish
1 entries- pigmí noun (a member of various African peoples)
Japanese
4 entries- ピグミー noun (a member of various African peoples)
- 小人 noun (any dwarfish person)
- 小人族 noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- 無能 noun (an insignificant person)
Korean
1 entries- 난쟁이 noun (a member of various African peoples)
Norwegian
2 entries- pygme noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pygmé noun (a member of various African peoples)
Polish
1 entries- Pigmej noun (a member of various African peoples)
Portuguese
4 entries- pigmeu noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pigmeu noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- pigmeu noun (any dwarfish person)
- pigmeu noun (an insignificant person)
Romanian
4 entries- pigmeu noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pigmeu noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- pitic noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- pitic noun (any dwarfish person)
Russian
3 entries- ка́рлик noun (any dwarfish person)
- пигме́й noun (a member of various African peoples)
- пигме́й noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
Spanish
1 entries- pigmeo noun (a member of various African peoples)
Swedish
2 entries- pygmé noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pygmé noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
Tagalog
3 entries- himandak noun (a member of various African peoples)
- himandak noun (a member of a mythological race of dwarfs)
- himandak noun (any dwarfish person)
Ukrainian
2 entries- пігме́й noun (a member of various African peoples)
- пігме́йка noun (a member of various African peoples)
Volapük
3 entries- hipügmen noun (a member of various African peoples)
- jipügmen noun (a member of various African peoples)
- pügmen noun (a member of various African peoples)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Be bold, European Union, or remain a political pygmy.
Source: tatoeba (4908032)
Scientists have identified the elephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia as separate from other Asian elephants. The group Worldwide Fund for Nature, or W-W-F, announced the finding. This follows genetic tests on waste from Borneo's Pygmy Elephants, as they are called.
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Although Pygmies are relatively protected against gene flow from other populations, many Pygmy tribes show extensive gene replacement and few have remained relatively unaltered.
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