English
Etymology
From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).
Pronunciation
Noun
merganser (plural mergansers)
- Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
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Translations
diving duck
- Bulgarian: голям потапник m (goljam potapnik)
- Catalan: bec de serra m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 秋沙鴨 / 秋沙鸭 (zh) (qiūshāyā)
- Czech: morčák (cs)
- Dutch: zaagbek (nl)
- Esperanto: merĝo
- Finnish: koskelo (fi)
- French: harle (fr) m
- German: Säger (de) m (Mergus), Sägetaucher m (Mergus), Gänsesäger m (Mergus merganser), Dunkelsäger m (Mergus octosetaceus), Schuppensäger m (Mergus squamatus), Kappensäger m (Mergus cucullatus), Mittelsäger m (Mergus serrator), Aucklandsäger m (Mergus australis, extinct)
- Hungarian: bukómadár (hu), bukó (hu)
- Ingrian: koskelo
- Irish: síolta f
- Japanese: 秋沙 (aisa)
- Korean: 비오리 (biori)
- Navajo: naalʼeełí bidaatsʼózí
- Nivkh: иғӈа (iγŋa)
- Polish: nurogęś (pl) f
- Portuguese: merganso m
- Russian: кроха́ль (ru) m (kroxálʹ), большо́й кроха́ль m (bolʹšój kroxálʹ) (Mergus merganser)
- Spanish: serreta (es) f (Mergus), serreta grande f (Mergus merganser)
- Swedish: skrake
- Turkish: tarakdiş (tr)
- Volapük: märgut
- Welsh: hwyadwydd f
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