bird of paradise

See also: bird-of-paradise

English

Alternative forms

• bird-of-paradise

Etymology

The first Europeans to encounter their skins were the voyagers in Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the Earth. Antonio Pigafetta wrote that "The people told us that those birds came from the terrestrial paradise, and they call them bolon diuata, that is to say, 'birds of God"."

Noun

bird of paradise (plural birds of paradise)

1. Any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae native to Oceania. In many of the species the breeding plumage of the males is brightly coloured.
2. A showy tropical flower of the genus , native to Madagascar.

Translations

bird

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極樂鳥／极乐鸟 (zh) (jílèniǎo), 极乐鸟 (zh) (jílèniǎo), 天堂鳥／天堂鸟 (tiāntángniǎo), 天堂鸟 (tiāntángniǎo), 風鳥／风鸟 (zh) (fēngniǎo), 风鸟 (zh) (fēngniǎo)

• Czech: rajka (cs) f
• Danish: paradisfugl c
• Finnish: paratiisilintu
• French: paradisier (fr) m, oiseau de paradis (fr) m
• Galician: ave do paraíso (gl) f
• German: Paradiesvogel (de) m
• Irish: éan parthais m
• Italian: paradisea f
• Japanese: 風鳥 (ja) (ふうちょう, fūchō)
• Kala Lagaw Ya: kakayam
• Malay: cenderawasih
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• Navajo: tsídii bitʼaʼ hózhóón
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: paradisfugl m

  Nynorsk: paradisfugl m

• Polish: rajski ptak m, cudowronka f
• Portuguese: ave-do-paraíso f
• Romanian: pasărea paradisului f
• Russian: ра́йская пти́ца f (rájskaja ptíca)
• Spanish: ave del paraíso m
• Swedish: paradisfågel c
• Tagalog: ibon ng paraiso
• Tok Pisin: kumul
• Volapük: paradit (vo)

flower

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶴望蘭／鹤望兰, 鹤望兰 (hèwànglán)

• Czech: strelicie f
• Finnish: kolibrikukka (fi)
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• Galician: ave do paraíso (gl) f
• Portuguese: estrelítzia f
• Romanian: pasărea paradisului f
• Spanish: ave del paraíso m