pelican

See also: pélican

English

a pelican

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English pelican, pellican, pellicane, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English pellican (“pelican”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pelecānus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/, /ˈpɛl.ə.kən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pelican (plural pelicans)

1. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
2. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
3. (chemistry, obsolete) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
4. (dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.

Derived terms

• pelican crossing
• pelican pot
• pelican spider
• pelicanist
• dental pelican

Translations

any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae

• Arabic: بَجَع (bajaʕ)
• Armenian: հավալուսն (hy) (havalusn)
• Assamese: ভেলা (bhela), ঢেৰা (dhera)
• Asturian: pelícanu m
• Basque: pelikano
• Belarusian: пелікан m (pjelikan)
• Breton: pilikant
• Bulgarian: пеликан m (pelikan)
• Catalan: pelicà m
• Chechen: пеликан (pelikan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵜鶘／鹈鹕 (zh) (tíhú), 鹈鹕 (zh) (tíhú)

• Czech: pelikán m
• Danish: pelikan (da) c
• Dutch: pelikaan (nl)
• Esperanto: pelikano
• Estonian: pelikan
• Finnish: pelikaani (fi)
• French: pélican (fr) m
• Galician: pelicano (gl)
• Georgian: ვარხვი (varxvi)
• German: Pelikan (de) m
• Greek: πελεκάνος (el) m (pelekános)

  Ancient: πελεκάν m (pelekán)

• Gujarati: પેણ n (peṇ)
• Hebrew: שַׂקְנַאי
• Hungarian: pelikán (hu), gödény (hu)
• Icelandic: pelíkani m
• Indonesian: burung undan, pelikan (id)
• Irish: peileacán m
• Italian: pellicano (it) m
• Japanese: ペリカン (ja) (perikan), 伽藍鳥 (がらんちょう, garanchō)
• Korean: 펠리컨 (pellikeon)
• Kriol: baligan
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کەڵک (kellk)

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• Latin: pelecānus m
• Latvian: pelikāns m
• Lithuanian: pelikanas (lt) m
• Macedonian: пелика́н (mk) m (pelikán)
• Malay: burung undan
• Manchu: ᡨᡳᡵᡥᡡᡨᠠᠨ (tirhūtan), ᡴᡡᡨᠠᠨ (kūtan)
• Maori: perikana
• Navajo: tsídiidaatsohí
• Ngarrindjeri: nori
• Norman: pélican m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: pelikan m
• Occitan: pelican (oc) m
• Polish: pelikan (pl)
• Portuguese: pelicano (pt) m
• Romanian: pelican (ro) m
• Russian: пелика́н (ru) m (pelikán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пелѝка̄н m, нѐсит m

  Roman: pelìkān (sh) m, nèsit (sh) m

• Slovak: pelikán m
• Slovene: pelikan (sl) m
• Spanish: pelícano (es) m
• Swahili: mwari (sw)
• Swedish: pelikan (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagala, pelikano
• Tiwi: arlikampwarni, alikwamparni, alikampwani, arlipiwura, kipiwura, jampawunga, jintama
• Turkish: pelikan (tr)
• Ukrainian: пелікан m (pelikan)
• Vietnamese: bồ nông
• Volapük: pelek
• Wardaman: jarnarran
• Welsh: pelig m or f, peligod m pl or f pl
• Wolof: njagabaar bi
• Yagara: bulualum
• Yiddish: פּעליקאַן m (pelikan)

Anagrams

• capelin, in place, panicle, pinacle

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pelicānus.

Noun

pelican m (plural pelicans)

1. pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)

Derived terms

• pelican australian
• pelican cresp
• pelican del Pero
• pelican ròsa
• pelican vulgar

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• pelecan (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French pélican, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pelicānus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.liˈkan/

Noun

pelican m (plural pelicani)

1. pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)

Declension

Declension of pelican

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pelican	pelicanul	(niște) pelicani	pelicanii
genitive/dative	(unui) pelican	pelicanului	(unor) pelicani	pelicanilor
vocative	pelicanule		pelicanilor

Derived terms

• pelican comun
• pelican creț
• pelicanol

Related terms

• pelecaniforme

See also

• steganipod

References

• pelican in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)