leaflet

English

Etymology

From leaf +‎ -let.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lēfʹlĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈliːflɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

leaflet (plural leaflets)

1. (botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
2. (botany) A small plant leaf.

   The new leaflets at the end of the branch were a lighter shade of green than the mature leaves.

3. A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.

   A leaflet had been left under the car's windshield wiper.

4. (anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.

Synonyms

• (small leaf): leafling
• (small sheet of paper containing information): flier, flyer, folder, handbill, pamphlet

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• bi-leaflet valve, bileaflet valve
• leaflet drop
• leafleteer
• leaflet propaganda
• leaflet raid
• leaflet shell
• Lillehei-Kalke bileaflet prosthesis
• patient information leaflet
• prolapsing mitral leaflet syndrome

 

Translations

component of a compound leaf

• Finnish: lehdykkä (fi)
• French: foliole (fr) f
• Italian: fogliolina f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Marathi: पर्णिका ? (parṇikā), उपपर्ण ? (upparṇa), पर्णक ? (parṇak), पत्रक ? (patrak)
• Polish: listek (pl) m
• Portuguese: folíolo m
• Spanish: folíolo (es) m

small plant leaf

• Dutch: blaadje (nl) n
• Irish: duillín m
• Macedonian: листенце n (listence)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: listek (pl) m
• Portuguese: folíolo m

small piece of paper with information — see also flyer

• Belarusian: лісто́ўка f (listóŭka), ўлётка f (ŭljótka)
• Bulgarian: листо́вка (bg) f (listóvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳單 / 传单 (zh) (chuándān), 传单 (zh) (chuándān)

• Czech: leták (cs) m
• Dutch: folder (nl) m
• Finnish: esite, lentolehtinen (fi)
• French: tract (fr) ?, prospectus (fr) ?, dépliant (fr) m
• German: Faltblatt (de) n, Broschüre (de) f, Faltprospekt n, Flugblatt (de) n
• Hungarian: szórólap
• Irish: bileoigín m, bileoigín páipéir m, ^{(please verify)} duilleachán m, bileog (ga) f, bileog faisnéise f
• Italian: dépliant m, volantino (it) m
• Japanese: 散らし (ちらし, chirashi), チラシ (chirashi), リーフレット (ja) (rīfuretto)
• Korean: 전단지 (jeondanji) (傳單紙), 전단 (ko) (jeondan) (傳單 (ko))
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: libellus m
• Macedonian: леток m (letok)
• Maori: mātārere, tawhera
• Polish: ulotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: folder (pt) m, panfleto (pt) m
• Russian: листо́вка (ru) f (listóvka), фла́ер (ru) m (flájer) (flyer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ле̏так m

  Roman: lȅtak (sh) m

• Slovene: brošura f, prospekt m
• Spanish: folleto (es) m, panfleto (es) m
• Tagalog: miklat
• Thai: ใบปลิว (th) (bai-bpliu)
• Ukrainian: листі́вка f (lystívka)
• Vietnamese: tờ quảng cáo, tờ rơi, tờ bướm, truyền đơn (vi) (傳單)

flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} folieto (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} duilleoigín m

See also

• booklet
• brochure
• catalog, catalogue
• circular
• junk mail
• pinna
• pinnule

Verb

leaflet (third-person singular simple present leaflets, present participle leafleting or leafletting, simple past and past participle leafleted or leafletted)

1. (transitive) To distribute leaflets to.

   A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.

2. (intransitive) To distribute leaflets.

   During the summer, Peter earned some extra cash by leafleting for a local pizza delivery restaurant.

   • 2011, Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross, Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law:

     The leafleter who takes reasonable care not to block the sidewalk, who does not become involved in incidents of violence, and whose leaflet is truthful, has the right to leaflet undisturbed.

Usage notes

• The inflected forms leafletted and leafletting are sometimes seen, but the spellings leafleted and leafleting are preferred.

Derived terms

• leafleting

Anagrams

• fellate