Black-capped chickadee
English
Etymology
Apparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls making a distinctive "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" sound.
Pronunciation
Noun
chickadee (plural chickadees)
- A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus Parus or the family Paridae.
- Affectionate term of address.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
songbird
- Afrikaans: mees (af)
- Armenian: երաշտահավ (hy) (eraštahav)
- Belarusian: сіні́ца f (siníca), гіль m (hilʹ)
- Bulgarian: сини́гер (bg) m (siníger)
- Catalan: mallerenga f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 山雀 (zh) (shānquè)
- Czech: sýkora (cs) f, sýkorka f
- Danish: mejse (da) c
- Dutch: mees (nl) f
- Esperanto: paruo
- Estonian: tihane (et)
- Faroese: títa f
- Finnish: tiainen (fi) (family Paridae); talitiainen (fi) (genus Parus)
- French: mésange (fr) f
- Galician: meixengra f
- German: Meise (de) f
- Greek: παπαδίτσα (el) f (papadítsa)
- Hungarian: cinege (hu), cinke (hu)
- Irish: méantán m
- Italian: cincia (it) f
- Japanese: 四十雀 (ja) (しじゅうから, shijūkara), シジュウカラ (ja) (shijūkara)
- Latin: parus
- Lithuanian: zylė (lt) f
- Low German: Mees’ f, Meesch f
- Luxembourgish: Mees f
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- Macedonian: сипка f (sipka), сенка f (senka)
- Navajo: chʼíshiibeezhii
- Norwegian: meis (no) m
- Panamint: annakki
- Polish: sikora (pl) f
- Portuguese: chapim (pt) m
- Romanian: pițigoi (ro) m
- Romansch: maset m
- Russian: сини́ца (ru) f (siníca), га́ичка (ru) f (gáička)
- Scottish Gaelic: cailleachag f, currac-baintighearna f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сеница f, сјеница f
- Roman: senica (sh) f, sjenica (sh) f
- Sicilian: cacasipala (scn) f
- Skolt Sami: ceeʒʒaž
- Slovak: sýkorka (sk) f
- Slovene: sinica (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sykora, sykorka
- Upper Sorbian: sykorka, sykora
- Spanish: carbonero (es) m
- Swedish: mes (sv) c, tita (sv) c
- Ukrainian: сини́ця f (synýcja)
- Volapük: parud (vo)
- Walloon: mazindje (wa) f
- West Frisian: mies
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