kingfisher

English

kingfisher (1.1)

Alternative forms

• king's fisher (obsolete)

Etymology

king +‎ fisher

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪŋfɪʃə/

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Noun

kingfisher (plural kingfishers)

1. Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.

Derived terms

• belted kingfisher
• common kingfisher
• pied kingfisher
• white-throated kingfisher

Translations

any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines

• Acehnese: cakeuëk
• Azeri: zərricələr
• Basque: martin arrantzale
• Breton: diredig
• Catalan: blauet m, arner m, alció (ca) m, botiguer m
• Cherokee: ᏧᎷ (tsulu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 翠鳥 (zh), 翠鸟 (zh) (cuìniǎo), 魚狗 (zh), 鱼狗 (zh) (yúgǒu), 翡翠 (zh) (fěicuì), 翡 (zh) (fěi)

• Czech: ledňáček (cs) m
• Danish: isfugl c
• Dutch: ijsvogel (nl) m
• Faroese: kyrrfuglur m
• Finnish: kuningaskalastaja (fi)
• French: martin-pêcheur (fr) m
• German: Eisvogel (de) m
• Greek: αλκυόνη (el) f (alkyóni)
• Gujarati: કલકલિયો (kalkaliyo)
• Hawaiian: pakūkaʻā
• Hungarian: jégmadár (hu)
• Ido: martin-peskero (io)
• Indonesian: raja-udang
• Irish: cruidín
• Italian: martin pescatore (it) m
• Latin: alcedo
• Luxembourgish: Äisvull m
• Macedonian: рибарче n (ribarče)

• Malagasy: vintsy (mg)
• Malay: raja udang m
• Malayalam: മീൻകൊത്തി (ml) (mīnkotti), പൊന്മാൻ (ponmān)
• Maori: kōtare
• Navajo: tábąąh naalzheehii
• Norman: pêtcheux m
• Old English: fiscere m
• Polish: zimorodek (pl) m
• Portuguese: martim-pescador m, guarda-rios m, pica-peixe (pt) m
• Romanian: pescăruș albastru m
• Russian: зиморо́док (ru) m (zimoródok)
• Scottish Gaelic: biorra-crùidein m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водомар m

  Roman: vodomar (sh) m

• Slovene: vodómec (sl) m
• Spanish: martín pescador m
• Tagalog: susulbot
• Tamil: சிரல் (ta) (ciral), மீன்கொத்தி (ta) (mīṉkotti)
• Tongan: sikotā
• Turkish: yalıçapkını (tr)
• Ukrainian: зимородок m (zymorodok)
• Vietnamese: bói cá (vi)
• Volapük: gladaböd (♂♀)
• Walloon: rwè-pexheu (wa) m, mårtén-pexheu (wa) m
• Welsh: glas y dorlan m

See also

• halcyon

Further reading

• kingfisher on Wikipedia.Wikipedia