robin

See also: Robin

English

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula

An American robin, Turdus migratorius

Etymology

Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒb.ɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɒbɪn
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑb.ɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɑbɪn
• Hyphenation: rob‧in

Noun

robin (plural robins)

1. Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
   1. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
      • 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

        As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

   2. An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
2. (historical) A trimming in front of a dress.

Usage notes

The American robin is larger and quite different from the European one: English settlers in America named it from its red breast.

Synonyms

• (all senses): redbreast, robin redbreast
• (the European robin): ruddock

Related terms

• robin redbreast

Translations

any bird called robin in English

• Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏉᏉ (tsisquoquo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥 (zh), 知更鸟 (zh) (zhīgēngniǎo)

• Finnish: rastas (fi), punarinta (fi), satakieli (fi), rintatasku, metsätasku, sinipyrstö (fi), punatasku (fi), rusorinta (fi), ruostepyrstö (fi), harakkatasku (fi), intiantasku (fi), leppälintu (fi), pensassieppo, sieppo
• French: grive (fr) f

• Hungarian: ,vörösbegy (hu)
• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Maori: pītoitoi
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m

Erithacus rubecula

• Armenian: արշալուսիկ (aršalusik)
• Asturian: raitán m
• Azerbaijani: şəfəq bülbülü
• Basque: txantxangorri
• Belarusian: малінаўка (malinaŭka)
• Breton: boc'hruz (br)
• Bulgarian: червеногръдка (červenogrǎdka)
• Catalan: pit-roig (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏉᏉ (tsisquoquo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥 (zh), 知更鸟 (zh) (zhīgēngniǎo), 歐亞鴝, 欧亚鸲 (ōuyàqú)

• Cornish: rudhek
• Czech: červenka (cs) f
• Danish: rødhals (da)
• Dutch: roodborstje (nl) n
• Esperanto: ruĝgorĝulo
• Estonian: punarind (et)
• Faroese: bringureyði m
• Finnish: punarinta (fi)
• French: rouge-gorge (fr) m, rouge-gorge familier (fr) m
• Galician: paporrubio (gl), paporroibo (gl), pisco (gl), paifoco (gl) m
• Georgian: გულწითელა (gulc̣itela)
• German: Rotkehlchen (de) n
• Greek: κοκκινολαίμης (el) m (kokkinolaímis)

  Ancient: ἐρίθακος m (eríthakos)

• Hebrew: אֲדֹם-הֶחָזֶה‎ (adom-hekhazé)
• Hungarian: vörösbegy (hu)
• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Italian: pettirosso (it) m
• Japanese: ヨーロッパコマドリ (Yōroppa komadori)
• Latvian: sarkanrīklīte

• Lithuanian: liepsnelė (lt)
• Maltese: pitirross
• Norman: rouoge-gorge m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødstrupe (no)

  Nynorsk: raudstrupe

• Occitan: papach-rós (oc), barbarós (oc), rigal (oc)
• Old English: rudduc m
• Polish: rudzik (pl) m
• Portuguese: pisco-de-peito-ruivo (pt) m
• Romanian: gușă-roșie (ro) f, măcăleandru (ro) m
• Romansch: (Rumantsch Grischun) puppen cotschen m, (Sursilvan) puppen tgietschen m, (Sutsilvan) pupencotschen m, (Surmiran) poppen cotschen m, (Puter, Vallader) gulacotschen m
• Russian: заря́нка (ru) f (zarjánka), мали́новка (ru) f (malínovka)
• Sami: guovssoloddi
• Scottish Gaelic: brù-dhearg
• Serbo-Croatian: crvendać (sh)
• Slovak: červienka f
• Slovene: taščica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sprjosk m

  Upper Sorbian: ročk m

• Spanish: petirrojo (es) m
• Swedish: rödhake (sv)
• Turkish: kızılgerdan (tr)
• Volapük: redablötareitak, (Erithacus) reitak (vo)
• Walloon: rodje-goidje (wa) m or f, loudene (wa) f
• Welsh: robin goch
• West Frisian: readboarstke (fy)

Turdus migratorius

• Atikamekw: pitciw
• Cherokee: ᏴᏩᏁᎬ ᏥᏉᏉ (yvwanegv tsiquoquo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥 (zh), 知更鸟 (zh) (zhīgēngniǎo)

• Cree: peepee tsoo (peepee tsoo)
• Czech: drozd stěhovavý m
• Dakota: šišoka
• Danish: vandredrossel c
• Dutch: roodborstlijster (nl)
• Faroese: stroktrøstur m
• Finnish: punarintarastas (fi)
• French: merle d'Amérique (fr) m
• German: Wanderdrossel f
• Hungarian: vándorrigó

• Icelandic: farþröstur (is) m
• Irish: smólach imirce m
• Japanese: コマツグミ (komatsugumi)
• Malayalam: അമേരിക്കന് റോബിന് (amērikkanŭ ṟōbinŭ)
• Mi'kmaq: gapjagwej anim
• Navajo: téél halchíʼí
• Ojibwe: opichi
• Polish: drozd wędrowny
• Portuguese: tordo americano m
• Russian: стра́нствующий дрозд m (stránstvujuščij drozd)
• Swedish: vandringstrast (sv)
• Taos: cìbikína
• Turkish: Amerika nar bülbülü

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} gushëkuqi
• Belarusian: заранка (zaranka)
• French: merle (fr) m, rubiette (fr) f (rare)
• Friulian: ^{(please verify)} petarňs, ^{(please verify)} scriç
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} glóbrystingur (is)
• Ladin: ^{(please verify)} pietcuecen
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} Rootbost m, ^{(please verify)} Rootböstje n
• Macedonian: црвеногушка (crvenoguška)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} pitirross

• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} papach rós, ^{(please verify)} papachrós
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} lolo-kolinako m, ^{(please verify)} loli-kolinaki f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} gușă-roșie (ro)
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} scraxarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} pitturrarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} brabarrùbia
• Serbo-Croatian: црвендаћ, crvendać (sh)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} červienka
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mirlo (es) m
• Ukrainian: вільшанка f (vilʹšanka)

See also

• round-robin

References

• European robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erithacus rubecula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Erithacus rubecula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• American robin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turdus migratorius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Turdus migratorius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Biron, Brion, inorb

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Catalan

Verb

robin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of robar
2. third-person plural imperative form of robar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.bɛ̃/

Etymology 1

Familiar form of Robert.

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (obsolete) sheep, calf

Derived terms

• robinet

Etymology 2

Derivative of robe, in the phrase homme de robe (“man of the gown”).

Noun

robin m (plural robins)

1. (archaic, derogatory) lawyer

Further reading

• “robin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).