knabo

Borrowed from German Knabe (which is now dated, but was still standard at the time of the creation of Esperanto).

• IPA^(key): /ˈknabo/
• Hyphenation: kna‧bo
• Rhymes: -abo
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knabo (accusative singular knabon, plural knaboj, accusative plural knabojn)

1. boy
   • 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio, Project Gutenberg transcription

     La malgranda knabo estis en forta febro kaj malfacile bataladis pro spiro.

     The small boy had a high fever and with difficulty fought to breathe.

• geknabo (“kid”)
• infano (“child”)

• knabaĉo (“brat”)
• knabego (“big boy”)
• knabeto (“little boy”)

• knabino (“girl”)
• knabiĉo

• chnabo

From Proto-Germanic *knabô; compare Old English cnafa and Old Norse knapi (“valet”) (Danish knabe (“page”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to press, tighten”). See also the related knappo.

knabo m

1. boy

• knappo

• Middle High German: knabe
  • German: Knabe