puberty

puberty on Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English puberte, from Old French puberté, from Latin pūbertās (“the age of maturity, manhood”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.bə.ti/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.bɚ.ti/
- Audio (Texas): (file)
(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʉː.bə.ti/

Noun

puberty (countable and uncountable, plural puberties)

A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total.
- 2014, Lewis Wolpert, Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?, →ISBN:
  Girls undergoing puberty show an increase in the total output of cortisol, which is related to stress, while boys show little increase.
1. (more common) The process of sexual development that produces secondary sex characteristics and makes a person capable of reproducing sexually.
The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.
- 2009, The Development of Children Study Guide, →ISBN, page 241:
  As shown in Figure 14.4 of the textbook, children reach puberty at different ages in different countries; within those nations, children living in cities tend to reach puberty earlier than those living in rural areas.
(botany) The period when a plant begins to flower.(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Meronyms

(process of adolescence): thelarche, pubarche, growth spurt, menarche, gonadarche, adrenarche

Derived terms

Translations

developmental phase

German: Geschlechtsreifung f, Reifezeit (de) f, Pubertät (de) f

age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction

Arabic: بُلُوغ m (bulūḡ)
Armenian: սեռական հասունություն (hy) (seṙakan hasunutʻyun)
Asturian: pubertá f
Belarusian: палавая спеласць f (palavaja spjelascʹ), палавое выспяванне n (palavóje vyspjavannje)
Bengali: বয়ঃসন্ধি (bn) (boẏoḥśondhi), বয়ঃসন্ধিকাল (bn) (boẏoḥśondhikal)
Catalan: pubertat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 青春期 (zh) (qīngchūnqī), 思春期 (zh) (sīchūnqī), 發情 / 发情 (zh) (fāqíng), 發身 / 发身 (zh) (fāshēn), 發育期 / 发育期 (zh) (fāyùqī)
Czech: puberta (cs) f
Danish: pubertet (da) c
Dutch: puberteit (nl)
Esperanto: pubereco
Faroese: kynsbúning f, (colloquial) pubertetur m
Finnish: murrosikä (fi), puberteetti (fi), varhaismurrosikä
French: puberté (fr) f
Galician: puberdade (gl) f
Georgian: სქესობრივი სიმწიფე (skesobrivi simc̣ipe)
German: Geschlechtsreife (de) f, geschlechtsreifes Alter n
Greek: εφηβεία (el) f (efiveía)
Ancient: ἥβη f (hḗbē), ἐφηβεία f (ephēbeía)
Hindi: यौवनारंभ m (yauvnārambh), वयःसंधि (hi) f (vayaḥsandhi)
Hungarian: serdülőkor (hu), pubertás (hu)
Indonesian: usia pancaroba, pubesens (id)
Italian: pubertà (it) f
Japanese: 思春期 (ja) (ししゅんき, shishunki)
Kashmiri: یاوَن کال (yāvan kāl)
Kazakh: балиғат (baliğat)
Khmer: ភាពពេញវ័យ (phiəppɨñvɨy)
Korean: 사춘기(思春期) (ko) (sachun'gi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: temenê pêgihîştînê, temenê xwenasînê
Latin: pūbertās f
Macedonian: пубертет m (pubertet)
Malay: baligh, puberti
Maori: pūhuruhurutanga
Marathi: पौगंडावस्था n (paugaṇḍāvasthā)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pubertet m

Nynorsk: pubertet m
Polish: dojrzewanie płciowe n, pokwitanie (pl) c, okres dojrzewania m
Portuguese: puberdade (pt) f
Romanian: pubertate (ro) f
Russian: полова́я зре́лость f (polovája zrélostʹ), полово́е созрева́ние n (polovóje sozrevánije)
Sanskrit: वयःसंधि (sa) m (vayaḥsaṃdhi)
Serbo-Croatian: pubertet (sh)
Spanish: pubertad (es) f
Swedish: pubertet (sv) c
Tagalog: mulansuplingan
Thai: ความเป็นหนุ่มสาว, วัยแรกรุ่น (th)
Turkish: ergenlik dönemi (tr)
Ukrainian: статева зрілість (stateva zrilistʹ)
Vietnamese: dậy thì (vi)
Welsh: glasoed m, blaenaeddfedrwydd m