mallard

English

A male mallard.

A female mallard with her ducklings.

Alternative forms

• maudelard, mawdelard (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English malard, mawlard, mawdelard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.ɑː(ɹ)d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmælɚd/

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• Rhymes: -ælɑː(ɹ)d, -ælə(ɹ)d

Noun

mallard (plural mallards or mallard)

1. Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

Derived terms

• manky mallard
• mottled mallard

Translations

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos

• Albanian: rosa e vëndit
• Assamese: পাতিহাঁহ (patihãh), আমৰ’লীয়া হাঁহ (amorölia hãh)
• Azerbaijani: vəhşi ördək
• Belarusian: крыжанка (kryžanka)
• Bengali: নীলশির (nilośir)
• Breton: houad-korz
• Bulgarian: дива патица (diva patica), зеленоглавка (zelenoglavka)
• Catalan: ànec collverd m, collblau m (male), àneda rossa f (female)
• Chechen: акха бад (aqa bad)
• Classical Nahuatl: zōlcanauhtli
• Czech: kachna divoká (cs)
• Danish: gråand (da)
• Dutch: wilde eend (nl) f
• Erzya: матярка (maťarka)
• Esperanto: platbeka anaso
• Estonian: sinikael part
• Faroese: villdunna
• Finnish: sinisorsa (fi), heinäsorsa (fi)
• French: colvert (fr) m, canard colvert (fr) m, canard sauvage (fr) m
• Friulian: masurin, mazar, mazorin, raze grande
• Galician: lavanco (gl)
• Georgian: გარეული იხვი (gareuli ixvi)
• German: Stockente (de) f
• Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) f (agriópapia)
• Greenlandic: qeerlutooq
• Haida:

  Northern Haida: x̱aa

  Southern Haida: x̱aax̱a

• Hebrew: ברכיה (he) f (brekhiyá)
• Hungarian: tőkés réce (hu), vadkacsa (hu)
• Icelandic: stokkönd (is)
• Inari Sami: tuáršu, stuorrâ vuonjâč
• Ingrian: rohosorsa
• Inupiaq: ukhiukhiuq
• Irish: lacha (ga)
• Italian: anatra selvatica f
• Jamtish: grasǫnd f, błáhałs m
• Japanese: 真鴨 (magamo)
• Kashmiri: پٔچھِن m (pạchin), (male mallard) نِلٕج m (nilụj), (female mallard) تھُج f (thuj)
• Kawaiisu: kurasɨni
• Klamath-Modoc: Weeqs
• Komi-Permyak: горда (gorda)
• Komi-Zyrian: горда (gorda)
• Korean: 물오리 (murori), 청둥오리 (cheongdung'ori)
• Kott: agaŋa
• Kumyk: къырбабиш (qırbabiş)
• Ladin: anera salvaria
• Latvian: meža pīle, mercene
• Lithuanian: didżioji antis
• Lule Sami: stuorvuojatjis
• Macedonian: дива патка (diva patka)
• Maltese: kuluvert
• Marathi: चतुरंग बदक (caturaṅga badak)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: кугылудо (kugyludo)

  Western Mari: лӧркӓ (lörkä), когогек лыды (kogogek lydy)

• Middle English: malard
• Navajo: naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ dootłʼizhí
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} киртыг (kirtyg)
• Northern Sami: duoršu
• Norwegian: stokkand
• Occitan: ànec coll-verd
• Polish: kaczka krzyżówka (pl)
• Portuguese: pato-real m
• Romani: divlio-ratsoy m, divlio-ratsa f
• Romanian: rață sălbatică (ro) f, rață mare f
• Romansch: anda selvadia f
• Russian: обыкнове́нная кря́ква f (obyknovénnaja krjákva)
• Sami: duoršu
• Sardinian: anadi conca birdi, conchirde, testirde
• Scots: muir-deuk
• Scottish Gaelic: lach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: патка глувара

  Latin: divlja patka (sh)

• Slovak: kačica divá (sk)
• Slovene: mlakarica, divja raca
• Southern Ohlone: cipituk
• Spanish: pato real (es) m, ánade real m or f
• Swedish: gräsand (sv) c
• Tagalog: papaw
• Turkish: yeşilbaş (tr)
• Turkmen: ýaşylbaş
• Udmurt: сюлы (śuly)
• Ukrainian: крижень (uk) (kryženʹ)
• Ume Sami: lággiehtse
• Upper Sorbian: dźiwja kačka
• Venetian: masorin
• Welsh: hwyaden wyllt
• West Frisian: wylde ein

Middle English

Noun

mallard

1. Alternative form of malard