puffin

English

Etymology

A puffin

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, apparently from puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌfɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʌfɪn

Noun

puffin (plural puffins)

1. (now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.]
2. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: (Britain, regional) pope, sea-parrot

   • 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The White Seal”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 110:

     Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

3. (entomology) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus . Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
4. (obsolete) A puffball.

Derived terms

• Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)
• common puffin (Fratercula arctica)
• crested puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
• horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata)
• puffinet
• puffinry
• puffling
• tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)

 

Related terms

• fraterculine

Translations

Fratercula arctica

• Belarusian: ту́пік m (túpik)
• Catalan: fraret m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海鸚／海鹦, 海鹦 (hoi² jing¹)

  Mandarin: 海鸚／海鹦 (hǎiyīng), 海鹦 (hǎiyīng)

• Cornish: nath m, popa m
• Czech: papuchalk m
• Danish: lunde (da) c, søpapegøje c
• Dutch: papegaaiduiker (nl) m, alk (nl) m
• Faroese: lundi (fo) m
• Finnish: lunni (fi)
• French: macareux (fr) m
• Galician: galo de mar m, aro (gl) m, invernizo m
• German: Lund (de) m, Lundevogel m (genera Fratercula), Papageitaucher (de) m, Papageientaucher m (F. arctica), Hundlund m (F. corniculata), Gelbschopflund m (F. cirrhata), Nashornalk m (Cerorhinca monocerata)
• Greek: φρατέρκουλα f (fratérkoula)
• Greenlandic: qilanngaq
• Icelandic: lundi (is) m
• Irish: puifín m, fuipín m
• Italian: pulcinella di mare (it) f
• Japanese: 角目鳥 (ツノメドリ, tsunomedori)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manx: pibbin f
• Navajo: tsídii naʼałkǫ́ʼígíí
• Norman: gode à rouoge bé f (Jersey), poffîn m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lunde

• Old Norse: lundi m
• Polish: maskonur (pl) m
• Portuguese: papagaio-do-mar (pt) m
• Romanian: furtunar (ro) m
• Romansch: sfunsella f
• Russian: ту́пик (ru) m (túpik), топо́рик (ru) m (topórik)
• Scots: (tammie) norrie
• Scottish Gaelic: buthaid f, peata-ruadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: tupik (sh) m
• Slovak: alka bielobradá f, mníšik m
• Slovene: njórka f
• Spanish: frailecillo (es) m
• Swedish: lunnefågel (sv)
• Welsh: pâl m

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English puffin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.fɛ̃/

Noun

puffin m (plural puffins)

1. shearwater

Further reading

• “puffin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.