robin

See also: Robin

English

Wikipedia

A European robin, Erithacus rubecula

An American robin, Turdus migratorius

Etymology

From the proper name Robin, Old French diminutive of Robert.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈrɒb.ɪn/

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

Noun

robin (plural robins)

1. Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltridae), 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.

Usage notes

The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.

Synonyms

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

Translations

any bird called robin in English

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥, 知更鸟 (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

• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Portuguese: tordo m

Erithacus rubecula

• Asturian: raitán m
• Basque: txantxangorri
• Belarusian: малінаўка (malinayka)
• Breton: boc'hruz
• Bulgarian: червеногръдка (červenogrŭdka)
• Catalan: pit-roig m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知更鳥, 知更鸟 (zhīgēngniǎo)

• Czech: červenka f
• Danish: rødhals
• 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, paporroibo, pisco
• German: Rotkehlchen (de) n
• Greek: κοκκινολαίμης (el) m (kokkinolaímis)
• Hungarian: vörösbegy (hu)
• Irish: spideog (ga) f
• Italian: pettirosso (it) m
• Jèrriais: rouoge-gorge m
• Latvian: sarkanrīklīte
• Lithuanian: liepsnelė (lt)
• Maltese: pitirross
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødstrupe

  Nynorsk: raudstrupe

• Occitan: papach-rós (oc), barbarós (oc), rigal (oc)
• Polish: rudzik (pl) m
• Portuguese: pisco-de-peito-ruivo 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: зарянка (ru) f (zaryanka), малиновка (ru) f (malínovka)
• Sami: guovssoloddi
• Scottish Gaelic: brù-dhearg
• Serbo-Croatian: crvendać
• 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, (♂♀ offspring) redablötareitakül, (Erithacus, ♂♀) reitak (vo), (♂) hireitak, (♀) jireitak, (♂♀ offspring) reitakül
• Walloon: rodje-goidje (wa) m, f, loudene (wa) f
• Welsh: robin goch
• West Frisian: readboarstke

Turdus migratorius

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

  Mandarin: 知更鳥, 知更鸟 (zhīgēngniǎo)

• Cree: peepee tsoo
• Czech: drozd stěhovavý m
• 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 (amērikkan ṟōbin)
• Navajo: téél halchíʼí
• Ojibwe: opichi
• Polish: drozd wędrowny
• Portuguese: tordo americano m
• Russian: странствующий дрозд m (stranstvújuščij 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 Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} gushëkuqi
• Belarusian: заранка (zaranka)
• French: merle m, rubiette f (rare)
• Friulian: ^{(please verify)} petarňs, ^{(please verify)} scriç
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} glóbrystingur
• 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
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} scraxarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} pitturrarrùbiu, ^{(please verify)} brabarrùbia
• Serbo-Croatian: црвендаћ (crvendać)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} červienka
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} mirlo m
• Ukrainian: вільшанка (vil’šanka) f

Derived terms

• robin redbreast
• round-robin

External links

•  Erithacus rubecula on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Erithacus rubecula
•  Turdus migratorius on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Turdus migratorius
• Erithacus rubecula on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Erithacus rubecula
• Turdus migratorius on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Turdus migratorius

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʀɔbɛ̃/

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, pejorative) lawyer

External links

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