A male chaffinch Given by the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary chaff finch [1] cǣfed 'ornamented' and cǣfing 'hair-ornament', thus meaning 'ornamented finch, colourful finch'.[2]
chaffinch (plural chaffinches
A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands. bird
Albanian: borës (sq) m avdosë f borak (sq) m zborak (sq) m fink m
Armenian: ամուրիկ ( amurik )
Asturian: pimpín (ast) , gurrión pintu (ast)
Breton: pint m pint kabell louet m
Bulgarian: сипка f ( sipka )
Catalan: pinsà (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蒼頭燕雀 ／ 苍头燕雀 ( cāngtóu yànquè )
Czech: pěnkava (cs) f
Danish: bogfinke (da)
Dutch: vink (nl) , boekvink (nl)
Esperanto: fringo
Faroese: bókígða f
Finnish: peippo (fi)
French: pinson (fr) m pinson des arbres (fr) m
Galician: pimpín (gl) m
Georgian: ნიბლია ( niblia ) , სკვინჩა ( sḳvinča ) , ნარჩიტა ( narčiṭa )
German: Buchfink (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: σπίζα f ( spíza ) , σπίνος m ( spínos )
Hungarian: erdei pinty (hu)
Icelandic: bókfinka (is) f
Irish: rí rua m
Italian: fringuello (it)
Japanese: ズアオアトリ
Korean: 푸른머리되새 (ko) ( pureunmeoridoesae )
Latgalian: žubeite f
Latvian: žubīte f
Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Poufank (lb) m
Macedonian: сне́гар m ( snégar ) , си́пка f ( sípka )
Maori: pahirini
Norman: rossîngno m
Northern Sami: beibboš
Norwegian: bokfink (no)
Occitan: pinçard (oc) m pinçan m pinçon (oc) m quinçon (oc) m
Polish: zięba (pl) f
Portuguese: tentilhão (pt) m chupim (pt) m
Romanian: cinteză (ro) f
Russian: зя́блик (ru) m ( zjáblik )
Scottish Gaelic: breacan-beithe m
Serbo-Croatian: zeba (sh) f
Slovak: pinka f
Spanish: pinzón vulgar m
Swedish: bofink (sv)
Ukrainian: зя́блик (uk) m ( zjáblyk )
Welsh: asgell fraith f
^ "chaffinch, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/30176. Accessed 1 September 2022.
^ Carole Hough, 'Cheveley and Chaff Hall: A Reconsideration of OE ceaf in Place-Names', Nottingham Medieval Studies , 43 (1999), 21–32; DOI: 10.1484/j.nms.3.291.
