Pygmy

1. Greek Mythology. A member of a race of dwarfs.
2. also pygmy A member of any of various peoples, especially of equatorial Africa and parts of southeast Asia, having an average height less than 5 feet (152 centimeters). Not in scientific use.
3. pygmy
   1. An individual of unusually small size.
   2. An individual considered to be of little or no importance.

1. also pygmy Of or relating to the Pygmies. Not in scientific use.
2. pygmy
   1. Unusually or atypically small.
   2. Unimportant; trivial.

[Middle English pigmie, from Latin Pygmaeī, the Pygmies, from Greek Pugmaioi, from pugmē, cubit, fist.]

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adjective

Extremely small: diminutive, dwarf, Lilliputian, midget, miniature, minuscule, minute², tiny, wee. Informal peewee, pintsize, pintsized, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, weeny. See big/small/amount.

Definition: insignificant person
Antonyms: giant

A member of any ethnic group in which the average height of the adult male is less than four feet, eleven inches. There are Pygmy tribes in dense rain-forest areas of central Africa, southern India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The most widely studied Pygmies are the Mbuti of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who pursue a nomadic hunting and gathering subsistence (see nomadism and hunting and gathering societies), but have established complex interdependent relationships with their non-Pygmy farming neighbors.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - pygmæ, dværg
adj. - dværg-, dværgagtig

Français (French)
n. - (Anthrop) pygmée, pygmée (péj)
adj. - pygmée

Deutsch (German)
n. - Pygmäe, Zwerg
adj. - Pygmäen..., zwergenhaft

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (εθνολ., μτφ.) πυγμαίος

Italiano (Italian)
pigmeo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pigmeu (m)

Русский (Russian)
пигмей

Español (Spanish)
n. - pigmeo
adj. - pigmeo, de la tribu de los pigmeos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pygmé, dvärg, nolla

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
矮人, 小妖精, 侏儒, 微小的, 矮人的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 矮人, 小妖精, 侏儒
adj. - 微小的, 矮人的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 피그미족(아프리카 적도부근에 사는 작은 흑인)
adj. - 난쟁이의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ピグミー, ピグマイオス, 小人, 知力の劣った人
adj. - ピグミーの, 小人の

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בן לשבט גמדים באפריקה המשוונית ובדרום-מזרח אסיה‬
adj. - ‮של פיגמאים, אדם מעוט-חשיבות, זעיר, ננס, אדם, חיה או דבר זעירים‬

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