cockerel

English

Etymology

From Middle English kokerel. By surface analysis, cock +‎ -rel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/

Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

1. A young male chicken.
   • 1941, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie:

     “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.”

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

Related terms

• cock

Translations

young male chicken

• Bulgarian: пе́тле (bg) n (pétle)
• Catalan: pollastre (ca), pollet (ca), butza (ca) (quan encara no té plomes)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小公雞 / 小公鸡 (xiǎo gōngjī)

• Czech: kohoutek (cs) m
• Dalmatian: poluastro m
• Danish: hanekylling
• Dutch: haantje (nl) n
• Estonian: kukepoeg
• Finnish: kukonpoika
• French: coquelet (fr) m
• Georgian: ყვინჩილა (q̇vinčila)
• German: Hähnchen (de) n, Junghahn (de) m, junger Hahn m
• Greek: πετεινάρι (el) n (peteinári), κοκοράκι (el) n (kokoráki)
• Hungarian: kiskakas (hu)
• Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro (it) m
• Japanese: 若いおんどり (わかいおんどり, wakai ondori)
• Korean: 어린 수탉 (eorin sutak)
• Latvian: gailēns m
• Macedonian: петле n (petle)
• Manx: eean kellee m
• Middle English: kokerel
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: vēupōngtshòu

• Polish: kogucik (pl) m
• Portuguese: frango (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: کُکَڑ (kukaṛ)

• Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m
• Russian: петушо́к (ru) m (petušók)
• Slovak: kohútik m
• Spanish: gallo (es) m, gallito (es) m
• Swahili: jimbi (sw)
• Tagalog: tatandangin
• Talysh: سوک (suk)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: خروسجق (horozcuk)

• Unami: wëskihële
• Volapük: higokül
• Yakut: бөтүүкчээн (bötüükčeen)

See also

• chicken
• hen
• rooster