halfling

Etymology
. Sense 3 ("half-grown young person") is attested to 1794. It was then used by in  (1954) as an alternative reference to members of his hobbit race. Hobbits were used in the original 1974 releases of the role-playing game , but in later editions they were changed to "halflings" for legal reasons, as being a pre-existing word rather than one invented by Tolkien.

Noun

 * 1)  A fictional small humanoid creature featuring in fantasy fiction; a hobbit.
 * 2)  A fictional humanoid born of a human parent and a parent of another race in fantasy fiction.
 * 3) A half-grown person, between a child and an adult.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 半身人
 * Czech: půlčík
 * French: halfelin, semi-homme
 * German:
 * Italian: mezz'uomo, halfling
 * Japanese: ハーフリング
 * Korean: 하플링
 * Marathi: हाफलिंग
 * Polish:, niziołki
 * Russian:, ха́флинг
 * Serbo-Croatian: полушан
 * Swedish: halvkarl, halvlängdsman, halvman, halvmänning,, , ,