robin

See also Robin

English

Wikipedia

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula

An American robin, Turdus migratorius

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈrɒb.ɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"rQb.In/

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• Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈrɑb.ɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"rAb.In/
• Rhymes: -ɑbɪn
• Hyphenation: rob‧in

Noun

robin (plural robins)

1. A European robin; Erithacus rubecula.
2. An American robin; Turdus migratorius.
3. Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast.

Usage notes

The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.

Synonyms

• (all senses): redbreast, robin redbreast

Translations

Erithacus rubecula

• Asturian: raitán (ast) m
• Basque: txantxangorri
• Belarusian: малінаўка (malinayka)
• Breton: boc'hruz
• Bulgarian: червеногръдка (červenogrŭdka)
• Catalan: pit-roig m
• Czech: červenka (cs) f
• Danish: rødhals (da)
• Dutch: roodborstje (nl) n
• Esperanto: ruĝgorĝulo
• Estonian: punarind (et)
• Faroese: bringureyði (fo) m
• Finnish: punarinta (fi)
• French: rouge-gorge (fr) m, rouge-gorge familier (fr) m
• Galician: paporrubio, paporroibo, pisco
• German: Rotkehlchen (de) n
• Greek: κοκκινολαίμης (el) (kokkinolaímis) m 
• Hungarian: vörösbegy (hu)
• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Italian: pettirosso (it) m
• Jèrriais: rouoge-gorge m
• Latvian: sarkanrīklīte
• Lithuanian: liepsnelė (lt)
• Maltese: pitirross (mt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødstrupe

  Nynorsk: raudstrupe

• Occitan: papach-rós (oc), barbarós (oc), rigal (oc)
• Polish: rudzik (pl) m
• Portuguese: pisco de peito ruivo m
• Romanian: gușă-roșie (ro) f, măcăleandru (ro) m
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun) puppen cotschen (rm) m, (Sursilvan) puppen tgietschen (rm) m, (Sutsilvan) pupencotschen (rm) m, (Surmiran) poppen cotschen (rm) m, (Puter, Vallader) gulacotschen (rm) m
• Russian: зарянка (ru) (zaryanka) f , малиновка (ru) (malínovka) f 
• Sami: guovssoloddi
• Scottish Gaelic: brù-dhearg
• Serbo-Croatian: crvendać
• Slovak: červienka (sk) f
• Slovene: taščica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sprjosk m

  Upper Sorbian: ročk (hsb) m

• Spanish: petirrojo (es) m
• Swedish: rödhake (sv)
• Turkish: kızılgerdan (tr)
• Volapük: (male or female) redablötareitak (vo), (offspring, young) redablötareitakül (vo), (Erithacus, male or female) reitak (vo), (male) hireitak (vo), (female) jireitak (vo), (offspring, young) reitakül (vo)
• Welsh: robin goch
• West Frisian: readboarstke

Turdus migratorius

• Cherokee: ᏴᏩᏁᎬ ᏥᏉᏉ (chr)
• Cree: peepee tsoo (cr)
• Czech: drozd stěhovavý (cs) m
• Danish: vandredrossel (da) c
• Dutch: roodborstlijster (nl)
• Faroese: stroktrøstur (fo) m
• Finnish: punarintarastas (fi)
• French: merle d'Amérique (fr) m
• German: Wanderdrossel (de) f
• Hungarian: vándorrigó (hu)
• Icelandic: farþröstur (is) m

• Irish: smólach imirce (ga) m
• Japanese: コマツグミ (ja) (komatsugumi)
• Malayalam: അമേരിക്കന് റോബിന് (ml)
• Navajo: téél halchíʼí
• Ojibwe: opichi
• Polish: drozd wędrowny (pl)
• Russian: странствующий дрозд (ru) (stranstvújuščij drozd) m 
• Swedish: vandringstrast (sv)
• Taos: cìbikína
• Turkish: Amerika nar bülbülü (tr)

other birds called robin in English

• Irish: spideog (ga) f

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: gushëkuqi
• Belarusian: заранка (zaranka)
• French: merle m, rubiette f (rare)
• Friulian: petarňs, scriç
• Icelandic: glóbrystingur
• Ladin: pietcuecen
• Low German: Rootbost m, Rootböstje n
• Macedonian: црвеногушка (crvenoguška)
• Maltese: pitirross

• Occitan: papach rós, papachrós
• Romani: lolo-kolinako m, loli-kolinaki f
• Romanian: gușă-roșie
• Sardinian: scraxarrùbiu, pitturrarrùbiu, brabarrùbia
• Serbo-Croatian: црвендаћ (crvendać)
• Slovak: červienka
• Spanish: mirlo m
• Ukrainian: вільшанка (vil’šanka) f

Derived terms

• robin redbreast
• round-robin

External links

• Erithacus rubecula on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Erithacus rubecula
• Turdus migratorius on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Turdus migratorius
• Erithacus rubecula on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Erithacus rubecula
• Turdus migratorius on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Turdus migratorius

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʀɔbɛ̃/

Etymology 1

Familiar form of Robert.

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (obsolete) sheep, calf

Derived terms

• robinet

Etymology 2

Derivative of robe, in the phrase homme de robe ‘man of the gown’.

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (archaic, pejorative) lawyer