peafowl

English

Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus)

Etymology

From pea (“peacock”) +‎ fowl. Compare Icelandic páfugl (“peafowl”), Swedish påfågel (“peafowl”), Danish påfugl (“peafowl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌfaʊl/

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Noun

peafowl (plural peafowls or peafowl)

1. A bird of the genus Pavo or Afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the males; a peacock (unspecified sex).

Synonyms

• peacock (much more common (for both sexes))

Hyponyms

• peacock (male or female peafowl)
• peahen (female peafowl)
• peachick (young or baby peafowl)

Derived terms

• Asiatic peafowl
• green peafowl
• Indian peafowl
• Spalding peafowl

Translations

pheasant of the genera Pavo or Afropavo

• Arabic: طَاوُوس m (ṭāwūs)
• Assamese: ম’ৰা (möra)
• Asturian: pavu (ast)
• Breton: paun (br) m
• Chechen: тӏаус (tʼaws)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 孔雀 (hung² zoek³)

  Mandarin: 孔雀 (zh) (kǒngquè)

• Czech: páv (cs) m
• Danish: påfugl (da) c
• Dutch: pauw (nl) m
• Esperanto: pavo (eo)
• Finnish: riikinkukko (fi)
• French: paon (fr) m
• Galician: pavón (gl) m
• Georgian: ფარშევანგი (parševangi)
• German: Pfau (de) m
• Hungarian: páva (hu)
• Icelandic: páfugl m
• Ido: pavono (io)
• Indonesian: merak (id)
• Italian: pavone (it) m
• Maori: pīkao
• Navajo: tsídii bitseeʼ naashchʼąąʼí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: påfugl m

  Nynorsk: påfugl m

• Polish: paw (pl) m
• Portuguese: pavão (pt) m
• Romanian: păun (ro) m
• Russian: павли́н (ru) m (pavlín)
• Slovene: pav (sl) m
• Spanish: pavo (es) m, pavo real (es) m, pavorreal m
• Swedish: påfågel (sv) c
• Volapük: paf (vo)

See also

• muster
• pavonine