The baby is suckling.
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Suckling
Synonyms for "suckling" (25 found)
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Related words (12)
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43 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رَضِيع noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Armenian
1 entries- ծծկեր noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Bashkir
1 entries- имсәк бала noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кърмаче noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- сукалче noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Catalan
2 entries- nodrissó noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- nodrissó noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Czech
1 entries- kojenec noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Dutch
1 entries- zuigeling noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Finnish
1 entries- imeväinen noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
French
2 entries- nourrisson noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- nourrisson noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
German
3 entries- Milchkalb noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
- Spanferkel (piglet) noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
- Säugling noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Ingrian
1 entries- rintalaps noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Latin
1 entries- lactens noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Macedonian
3 entries- до́енче noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- цицалче noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- цицалче noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Polish
1 entries- osesek noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Romanian
1 entries- sugar noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Russian
4 entries- грудно́й noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- младе́нец noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- ребёнок noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- сосу́н noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Slovak
1 entries- dojča noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Spanish
2 entries- lactante noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- mamantón noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
Swedish
1 entries- dibarn noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Volapük
4 entries- (piglet) sugasvinül noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
- hisügäb noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
- hisügäb noun (young mammal which isn't weaned yet)
- jisügäb noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Yiddish
1 entries- זויגלינג noun (infant that is still breastfeeding)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The babies are suckling.
Source: tatoeba (1666039)
In this estate whilst a goatherd named Lamon was tending his herds in the fields, he found a little child whom one of his she-goats was suckling.
Source: tatoeba (6212390)
The baby giraffe stood up and started suckling.
Source: tatoeba (8557021)
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