rooster

See also: Rooster

English

Rooster

Rooster

Etymology

roost +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːstə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹustəɹ/, enPR: roo͞'stər

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• Rhymes: -uːstə(ɹ)

Noun

rooster (plural roosters)

1. (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken () or other gallinaceous bird.
   • 1772 March 14, A.G. Winslow, Diary:

     Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

   • 1836, Catharine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada, p. 308:

     The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, iii, xvi, p. 616:

     Chalk a circle for a rooster.

2. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
   • 1949, British Birds, 42, p. 323:

     The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.

   • 1999, Milton W. Weller, Wetland Birds: Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications

     Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.

3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
4. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
5. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
6. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
7. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
   • 1946, Conrad Richter, The Fields, p. 231:

     In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.

8. (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
   • 1869 July, Southern Review, p. 54:

     American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.

Synonyms

• (male chicken): cock
• (informant): See Thesaurus:informant
• (violent person): brawler
• (powerful person): See Thesaurus:big cheese
• (pompous person): cock of the walk, cock of the roost
• (man): See Thesaurus:man

Hypernyms

• (male chicken): chicken, fowl

Hyponyms

• (male chicken): cockerel (young rooster)

Coordinate terms

• (male chicken): hen

Derived terms

• roosterly
• roosterness
• roostertail

Related terms

• roost

Translations

male chicken; male gallinaceous bird

• Afrikaans: haan (af) m
• Albanian: kokosh (sq) m, gjel (sq) m
• Amharic: አውራ ዶሮ (ʾäwra doro)
• Arabic: دِيك (ar) m (dīk), ذَكَر (ar) m (ḏakar) (suffix "for any kind")

  Egyptian Arabic: ديك m (dīk), دكر m (dakar) (suffix "for any kind")

  Moroccan Arabic: فروج m (farrūj)

  Tunisian Arabic: سردوك m (serdūk)

• Armenian: աքլոր (hy) (akʻlor), աքաղաղ (hy) (akʻaġaġ), խորոզ (hy) (xoroz) (dialectal)
• Asturian: gallu m, pitu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: xoruz (az)
• Banjarese: hayam jagau
• Bashkir: әтәс (ətəs)
• Basque: oilar, oilarra
• Belarusian: пе́вень m (pjévjenʹ)
• Breton: kilhog (br) m
• Bulgarian: пете́л (bg) m (petél)
• Burmese: ကြက်ဖ (my) (krakhpa.)
• Catalan: gall (ca) m
• Chamicuro: kayo
• Chechen: боргӏал (borğal), нӏаьна (nˀäna)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏯ (atsvya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雞公／鸡公 (gai¹ gung¹), 鸡公 (gai¹ gung¹)

  Mandarin: 雄雞／雄鸡 (zh) (xióngjī), 雄鸡 (zh) (xióngjī), 公雞／公鸡 (zh) (gōngjī), 公鸡 (zh) (gōngjī)

• Chukchi: ӄԓегтанӈыгатԓе (qḷegtanṇygatḷe)
• Chuvash: автан (avtan)
• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān huehxōlōtl
• Crimean Tatar: horaz, (Northern dialect) qoraz
• Czech: kohout (cs) m
• Danish: hane (da) c, kok (da) c
• Dutch: haan (nl) m
• Erzya: атякш (aťakš)
• Esperanto: virkoko m, kokiĉo (eo) m
• Estonian: kukk (et), kikas
• Ewe: koklotsu m
• Faroese: hani m
• Finnish: kukko (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: jal m
• French: coq (fr) m
• Friulian: gjal m
• Galician: galo m
• Georgian: მამალი (mamali)
• German: Hahn (de) m

  Alemannic German: Hane m (Valais), Güggel m (central, northern, western), Guli m

• Greek: κόκορας (el) m (kókoras), πετεινός (el) m (peteinós), (poetic) αλέκτορας (el) m (aléktoras)

  Ancient: ἀλεκτρυών m (alektruṓn), ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr)

• Gujarati: કૂકડો m (kūkḍo)
• Hebrew: גֶּבֶר (he) m (géver), שֶׂכְוִי (he) m (sechví)
• Hindi: मुर्ग़ा m (murġā)
• Hungarian: kakas (hu)
• Hunsrik: Haan m
• Icelandic: hani (is) m
• Ido: hanulo (io)
• Indonesian: jago (id),ayam jantan, ayam jago (id)
• Interlingua: gallo
• Irish: coileach (ga) m
• Italian: gallo (it) m
• Japanese: 雄鳥 (おんどり, ondori)
• Kazakh: әтеш (äteş), қораз (kk) (qoraz)
• Khmer: មាន់ឈ្មោល (mŏən chmool)
• Korean: 수탉 (ko) (sutak)
• Kurdish:

  Kermanshani: ,

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani: کەڵەشێر (kełeşêr), کەلەباب (kelebab)

• Kyrgyz: короз (koroz)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: גאייו m

  Roman: gayo m

• Lao: ສະກາ (sa kā)
• Latgalian: gaiļs
• Latin: gallus (la) m
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• Latvian: gailis m
• Lithuanian: gaidys (lt) m
• Low German: Hahn m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Lü: ᦺᦂᧈᦗᦴᧉ (k̇ay¹puu²)
• Macedonian: петел m (petel)
• Malay: ayam jantan
• Malayalam: പൂവങ്കോഴി (ml) (pūvaṅkōḻi)
• Maltese: serduk m, serduq m
• Manchu: ᠴᠣᡴᠣ (coko)
• Manx: kellagh m
• Maore Comorian: kukui class 5/6
• Maori: tame heihei, pīkaokao
• Marathi: कोंबडा m (kombḍā)
• Mazanderani: تلا (telâ)
• Mi'kmaq: lape'w anim, nape'w anim
• Mongolian: эр тахиа (er taxia)
• Navajo: naaʼahóóhai bikąʼí
• Ngazidja Comorian: kuɗume class 5/6
• Norwegian: hane (no) m
• Novial:
• Occitan: gal (oc) m
• Ojibwe: naabese
• Old Church Slavonic: кокотъ m (kokotŭ)

  Cyrillic: коуръ m (kurŭ)

• Old English: hana m
• Old Irish: caileach m
• Papiamentu: gai
• Persian: خروس (fa) (xorus)
• Polish: kogut (pl) m; kur (pl) m anim (archaic), kokot (pl) m (some dialects)
• Portuguese: galo (pt) m
• Quechua: k'anka
• Romagnol: gal
• Romanian: cocoș (ro) m
• Russian: пету́х (ru) m (petúx); ко́чет (ru) m (kóčet) (regional)
• Sardinian: pudhu
• Scottish Gaelic: coileach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петао m / пијетао m, певац m / пијевац m, хороз m

  Roman: petao (sh) m / pijetao (sh) m, pevac (sh) m / pijevac (sh) m, horoz (sh) m

• Sicilian: jaddu (scn) m, gaddu (scn) m
• Skolt Sami: ååʹreskääʹnn
• Slovak: kohút m
• Slovene: petelin (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kokot m

• Spanish: gallo (es) m
• Swahili: jogoo (sw)
• Swedish: tupp (sv) c
• Tagalog: (literally) rooster m, tandang (tl)
• Tamil: சேவல் (ta) (cēval)
• Taos: gòyu’úna
• Tashelhit: ⴰⴼⵓⵍⵍⵓⵙ m (afullus), ⴰⵢⴰⵥⵉⴹ m (ayaẓiḍ)
• Telugu: రూస్టర్ (te) (rūsṭar), కోడిపుంజు (te) (kōḍipuñju)
• Thai: ไก่ตัวผู้ (gài-dtuua-pûu)
• Turkish: horoz (tr)
• Turkmen: horaz
• Ukrainian: пі́вень (uk) m (pívenʹ), ко́гут (uk) m (kóhut)
• Urdu: مرغا m (murġā), خروس m (xurūs)
• Uyghur: خوراز (ug) (xoraz)
• Uzbek: xo'roz (uz)
• Venetian: gaƚo (vec) m
• Vietnamese: gà trống (vi), con gà trống
• Volapük: higok (vo)
• Walloon: cok (wa) m
• Welsh: ceiliog (cy) m, ceiliogod (cy) m pl
• West Frisian: hoanne (fy)
• Westrobothnian: ,
• Wolof: séq gi (wo)
• Zazaki: dîk m
• Zhuang: gaeqboux

informant — see informant

violent person — see brawler

powerful person — see big cheese

flower — see violet

See also

• cock-a-doodle-doo

References

• "rooster, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• reroots, rooters, toreros

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːstər/

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• Hyphenation: roos‧ter
• Rhymes: -oːstər

Noun

rooster n or m (plural roosters, diminutive roostertje n)

1. grill, grid a metallic maze-structure; some things containing one
2. a device for roasting
3. roster, timetable
4. (crystallographic) lattice.

Derived terms

• broodrooster
• uurrooster

Related terms

• roosteren

Verb

rooster

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of roosteren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of roosteren

Anagrams

• torero's