teal

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English

Anas crecca, the common teal

Etymology

Probably from an unrecorded Old English word cognate with Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) Middle Low German telink, from West Germanic *taili. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

teal (plural teals)

1. Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
2. (colour) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

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Translations

duck

Albanian: bajukë (sq) Catalan: xarxet comú (ca) Dutch: taling (nl) m. Esperanto: kreko (eo), krekanaso (eo) Finnish: tavi (fi) French: sarcelle (fr) f. German: Krickente (de) f., Kriekente (de) Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) (agriópapia) f. Hungarian: réce (hu) Italian: alzavola (it) Japanese: 小鴨 (こがも, kogamo)

Luxembourgish: Wanterint (lb) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: krikkand (no) m. and f. Nynorsk: krikkand (nn) f. Portuguese: patinho (pt) m. Russian: чирок (ru) (čirók) m. Spanish: cerceta f., barraquete m. Swedish: kricka (sv) c. Turkish: çakırkanat (tr) Volapük: (male or female) krek (vo), hikrek (vo) (male), jikrek (vo) (female), (offspring, young) krekül (vo)

colour

Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen n. Finnish: (tumman) sinivihreä French: bleu sarcelle, bleu pétrole Greek: βαθυκύανο (el) (vathykýano) n. Hungarian: kékeszöld (hu) Italian: blu petrolio (it), foglia di tè (it)

Polish: barwa morska (pl) n. Portuguese: azul-petróleo Swedish: teal (sv) Turkish: teal (tr) Vietnamese: mòng két. (vi)

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Serbo-Croatian: mala divlja patka f. Persian: (1): مرغابی جره (morghabi-ye jarre), (2): سبزآبی (sabzabi)

Adjective

teal (comparative tealer, superlative tealest)

1. (colour) having a bluish-green colour

Translations

colour

Catalan: xarxet (ca) Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen, appelblauwzeegroene French: sarcelle (fr) m.

Italian: foglia di tè (it) Portuguese: Azul-Petróleo

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues) [edit]}

Anagrams

• et al., ETLA, late, leat, tael, tale, tela