pelican

See also pélican

English

Wikipedia

Pelicans.

Etymology

From Old English pellicane, from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekan).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/, /ˈpɛl.ə.kən/

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Noun

pelican (plural pelicans)

1. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
2. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.

Derived terms

• pelican crossing
• pelicanist

Translations

any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae

• Armenian: հավալուսն (hy) (havalusn)
• Catalan: pelicà (ca) m
• Chechen: пеликан
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵜鶘 (cmn), 鹈鹕 (cmn) (tíhú)

• Czech: pelikán (cs) m
• Dutch: pelikaan (nl)
• Finnish: pelikaani (fi)
• French: pélican (fr) m
• German: Pelikan (de) m
• Greek: πελεκάνος (el) (pelekános) m
• Hungarian: pelikán (hu), gödény (hu)
• Icelandic: pelíkani (is) m
• Indonesian: burung undan, pelikan
• Irish: peileacán (ga) m
• Japanese: ペリカン (ja) (perikan)
• Jèrriais: pélican m
• Korean: 펠리컨 (ko) (pellikeon)
• Latin: pelecānus (la) m
• Macedonian: пеликан (mk) (pelikán) m
• Malay: burung undan (ms)

• Navajo: tsídiidaatsohí
• Ngarrindjeri: nori
• Norwegian: pelikan (no) m
• Polish: pelikan (pl)
• Portuguese: pelicano (pt) m
• Romanian: pelican (ro) m
• Russian: пеликан (ru) (pelikán) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пелѝка̄н (sh) m, нѐсит (sh) m

  Roman: pelìkān (sh) m, nèsit (sh) m

• Spanish: pelícano (es) m
• Swahili: mwari (sw)
• Swedish: pelikan (sv) c
• Turkish: pelikan (tr)
• Vietnamese: chim bồ nông (vi), bồ nông (vi)
• Volapük: (male or female) pelek (vo), (male) hipelek (vo), (female) jipelek (vo), (male or female offspring, young) pelekül (vo), (young male offspring) hipelekül (vo), (young female offspring) jipelekül (vo)
• Wolof: njagabaar bi (wo)

Anagrams

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