chaffinch

English

Etymology

A male chaffinch

Given by the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary chaff +‎ finch, but more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cǣfed 'ornamented' and cǣfing 'hair-ornament', thus meaning 'ornamented finch, colourful finch'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/

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Noun

chaffinch (plural chaffinches)

2. A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.

Translations

bird

• Albanian: borës (sq) m, avdosë f, borak (sq) m, zborak (sq) m, fink m
• Armenian: ամուրիկ (amurik)
• Breton: pint m, pint kabell louet m
• Bulgarian: сипка f (sipka)
• Catalan: pinsà (ca) m
• 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
• Icelandic: bókfinka (is) f
• Irish: rí rua m
• Italian: fringuello (it)
• Japanese: ズアオアトリ
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• Korean: 푸른머리되새 (ko) (pureunmeoridoesae)
• Latgalian: žubeite f
• Latvian: žubīte f
• Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Poufank (lb) m
• 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)
• 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)
• Welsh: asgell fraith f
• Westrobothnian:

See also

• chaffinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia