mute swan

English

A mute swan.

Etymology

So called because it is not very vocal (though not entirely mute).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mute swan (plural mute swans)

1. A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.

Translations

Cygnus olor

• Arabic: تَمّ أَخْرَس m (tamm ʔaḵras)
• Armenian: թշշան կարապ (tʻššan karap)
• Asturian: cisne (ast)
• Basque: beltxarga arrunt
• Belarusian: ле́бедзь-шыпу́н m (ljébjedzʹ-šypún)
• Breton: alarc'h roueel
• Bulgarian: ням лебед m (njam lebed)
• Catalan: cigne mut m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疣鼻天鵝 / 疣鼻天鹅 (yóubí tiān'é)

• Danish: knopsvane (da) c
• Dutch: knobbelzwaan (nl) m
• Estonian: kühmnokk-luik
• Faroese: knópsvanur m
• Finnish: kyhmyjoutsen (fi)
• French: cygne muet (fr) m, cygne tuberculé (fr) m
• German: Höckerschwan (de) m
• Greek: κοινός κύκνος m (koinós kýknos), βουβόκυκνος (el) m (vouvókyknos)
• Hebrew: ברבור מצוי m
• Hungarian: bütykös hattyú (hu)
• Icelandic: hnúðsvanur (is)
• Irish: eala bhalbh f
• Italian: cigno reale m
• Japanese: 瘤白鳥 (ja) (kobuhakuchō)
• Korean: 혹고니 (hokgoni)
• Latvian: paugurknābja gulbis f
• Lithuanian: gulbė nebylė (lt) f
• Malayalam: രാജഹംസം (ml) (rājahaṁsaṁ)
• Maltese: ċinju m
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠷᠣᠭᠣᠲᠣ
  ᠬᠣᠨ (qorogoto qon)
• Norman: cŷngne m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knoppsvane (no) m or f

• Persian: قوی گنگ (qu-ye gong)
• Polish: łabędź niemy (pl) m
• Portuguese: cisne-real (pt) m, cisne-mudo m
• Romanian: lebădă de vară f
• Russian: ле́бедь-шипу́н (ru) m (lébedʹ-šipún)
• Spanish: cisne mudo m
• Swedish: knölsvan (sv) c
• Thai: หงส์ใบ้ (hǒng-bâi)
• Turkish: sessiz kuğu (tr)
• Vietnamese: thiên nga trắng
• Welsh: alarch dof m

Further reading

• mute swan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cygnus olor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies