English
Etymology
Originally king's fisher, from Middle English kyngys fyschare; equivalent to king + fisher. So named for obscure reasons.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɪŋˌfɪʃə/
Noun
kingfisher (plural kingfishers)
- Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
- common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Derived terms
Translations
any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines
- Abinomn: wokin
- Acehnese: cakeuëk
- Apache:
- Western Apache: taba̜a̜zhide
- Arabic: سَلْدَج (ar) m (saldaj), قِرِلَّى m (qirillā)
- Armenian: ալկիոն (hy) (alkion)
- Assamese: মাছৰোকা (masrüka)
- Early Assamese: মাছৰঙ্কা (machoroṅka)
- Asturian: verderríos (ast), martinete (ast)
- Azerbaijani: zərricələr
- Basque: martin arrantzale
- Belarusian: зімародак m (zimaródak)
- Bengali: মাছরাঙা (bn) (machraṅa)
- Breton: diredig
- Bulgarian: синьо рибарче n (sinjo ribarče)
- Catalan: blauet (ca) m, arner m, alció (ca) m, botiguer (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᏧᎷ (tsulu)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 翠鳥 / 翠鸟 (zh) (cuìniǎo), 魚狗 / 鱼狗 (zh) (yúgǒu), 翡翠 (zh) (fěicuì), 翡 (zh) (fěi)
- Czech: ledňáček (cs) m
- Danish: isfugl c
- Dutch: ijsvogel (nl) m
- Esperanto: alciono
- Faroese: kyrrfuglur m
- Finnish: kuningaskalastaja (fi)
- French: martin-pêcheur (fr) m
- Galician: gardarríos m, picapeixe (gl) m
- Georgian: ჭარლი (č̣arli), ალკუნი (alḳuni)
- German: Eisvogel (de) m
- Greek: αλκυόνη (el) f (alkyóni)
- Ancient Greek: ἀλκυών f (alkuṓn)
- Gujarati: કલકલિયો (kalakliyo)
- Hawaiian: pakūkaʻā
- Hebrew: שַׁלְדָּג (he) m (shaldág)
- Hungarian: jégmadár (hu)
- Icelandic: bláþyrill (is) m
- Ido: martin-peskero (io)
- Indonesian: raja-udang
- Irish: cruidín
- Italian: martin pescatore (it) m
- Japanese: カワセミ (ja) (かわせみ, kawasemi), 翡翠 (ja) (かわせみ, kawasemi), 魚狗 (かわせみ, kawasemi), 川蝉 (ja) (かわせみ, kawasemi), ヒスイ (ひすい, hisui), 翡翠 (ja) (ひすい, hisui), ショウビン (しょうびん, shōbin), 翡翠 (ja) (しょうびん, shōbin) (larger species)
- Kapampangan: batala
- Kashmiri: کۄلہٕ ٹوٗنٛچ (kọlhụ ṭūnc)
- Latin: alcēdō
- Latvian: zivju dzenītis m
- Luxembourgish: Äisvull m
- Macedonian: рибарче n (ribarče)
- Malagasy: vintsy (mg)
- Malay: raja udang m
- Malayalam: മീൻകൊത്തി (ml) (mīṉkotti), പൊന്മാൻ (ponmāṉ)
- Māori: kōtare
- Nanai: судуй (suduj)
- Navajo: tábąąh naalzheehii
- Norman: pêtcheux m
- Ohlone:
- Southern Ohlone: carsaywa
- Old English: īsearn m, fisċere m
- Persian: ماهیخورک (mâhi-xwark)
- Plautdietsch: Iesvoagel n
- Polish: zimorodek (pl) m
- Portuguese: martim-pescador (pt) m, guarda-rios m, pica-peixe (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਮਛੇਰਾ m (macherā)
- Romanian: pescăruș albastru m
- Russian: зиморо́док (ru) m (zimoródok)
- Scottish Gaelic: biorra-crùidein m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: водомар m
- Latin: vodomar (sh) m
- Slovak: rybárik m
- Slovene: vodómec (sl) m
- Spanish: martín pescador (es) m
- Swahili: kurea (sw)
- Swedish: kungsfiskare (sv) c
- Tagalog: susulbot
- Tamil: சிரல் (ta) (ciral), மீன்கொத்தி (ta) (mīṉkotti)
- Thai: กระเต็น (th) (grà-dten)
- Tongan: sikotā
- Turkish: yalıçapkını (tr), emircik (tr), iskele kuşu (tr)
- Ukrainian: зимородок m (zymorodok), рибалочка f (rybaločka), водомороз m (vodomoroz), іванок m (ivanok)
- Unami: chëlìlhwès
- Venetan: pionbìn m
- Vietnamese: bói cá (vi)
- Volapük: gladaböd (♂♀)
- Walloon: rwè-pexheu (wa) m, mårtén-pexheu (wa) m
- Welsh: glas y dorlan m, pioden y dŵr f, pysgotwr (cy) m
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