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English[edit]
kingfisher (1.1)
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
king + fisher
Pronunciation[edit]
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[edit]
Translations[edit]
any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines
- Abinomn: wokin
- Acehnese: cakeuëk
- Apache:
- Western Apache: taba̜a̜zhide
- Armenian: ալկիոն (hy) (alkion)
- Assamese: মাছৰোকা (masrüka)
- Asturian: verderríos (ast), martinete (ast)
- Azerbaijani: zərricələr
- Basque: martin arrantzale
- Belarusian: зімародак m (zimaródak)
- 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
- Early Assamese: মাছৰঙ্কা (machoroṅka)
- 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: 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 (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)
- Maori: kōtare
- Nanai: судуй (suduj)
- Navajo: tábąąh naalzheehii
- Norman: pêtcheux m
- 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
- Roman: vodomar (sh) m
- Slovene: vodómec (sl) m
- Southern Ohlone: carsaywa
- Spanish: martín pescador m
- Swedish: kungsfiskare (sv) c
- Tagalog: susulbot
- Tamil: சிரல் (ta) (ciral), மீன்கொத்தி (ta) (mīṉkotti)
- Thai: กระเต็น (th) (grà-dten)
- Tongan: sikotā
- Turkish: yalıçapkını (tr)
- Ukrainian: зимородок m (zymorodok), рибалочка f (rybaločka), водомороз m (vodomoroz), іванок m (ivanok)
- Venetian: 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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