teal

See also: Teal, TEAl, and TEAL

English

Anas crecca, the common teal

Alternative forms

• teale (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English word *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling ("teal"; Modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tailijaz. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

1. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
2. (countable and uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

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Translations

duck

• Albanian: bajukë (sq)
• Basque: zertzeta
• Catalan: xarxet comú
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水鴨／水鸭 (zh) (shuǐyā), 水鸭 (zh) (shuǐyā)

• Czech: čírka (cs)
• Dutch: taling (nl) m
• Esperanto: kreko (eo), krekanaso
• Finnish: tavi (fi)
• French: sarcelle (fr) f
• German: Krickente f, Kriekente f
• Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) f (agriópapia)
• Greenlandic: qeerlutoornaq
• Hungarian: réce (hu)
• Ido: sarcelo (io)
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Irish: praslacha f
• Italian: alzavola
• Japanese: 小鴨 (こがも, kogamo)
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• Korean: 쇠오리 (soe'ori)
• Luxembourgish: Wanterint f
• Maori: tētē
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krikkand m or f

  Nynorsk: krikkand f

• Persian: خوتکا (xutkâ)
• Portuguese: patinho m
• Romanian: lișiță (ro) f, sarselă f
• Russian: чиро́к (ru) m (čirók)
• Serbo-Croatian: kržulja (sh) f
• Spanish: cerceta f, barraquete m
• Swedish: kricka (sv) c
• Turkish: çakırkanat (tr)
• Venetian: sarsegna f
• Vietnamese: mòng két
• Volapük: krek
• Welsh: corhwyaden f, crach-hwyaden f

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍綠色／蓝绿色, 蓝绿色 (lánlǜsè)

• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen n
• Finnish: (tumman) sinivihreä
• French: bleu sarcelle, bleu canard (fr)
• German: blaugrün (de), petrol
• Greek: βαθυκύανο n (vathykýano)
• Hebrew: טוּרְקִיז (he) (turqíz)
• Hungarian: kékeszöld (hu)
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Italian: blu petrolio, foglia di tè
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• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Persian: سبز دودی (sabz-e dudi)
• Polish: barwa morska n
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo (pt)
• Romanian: albastru petrol n
• Russian: зеленова́то-голубо́й (ru) m (zelenováto-golubój) (цвет), цвет морской волны (ru) m (cvet morskoj volny)
• Slovene: turkizna
• Spanish: azul petróleo m
• Swedish: teal
• Turkish: teal (tr), petrol yeşili, ördekbaşı (tr)
• Vietnamese: mòng két

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Persian: (1): مرغابی جره (morghabi-ye jarre), (2): سبزآبی (sabzabi)
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• (deprecated template usage) Serbo-Croatian: mala divlja patka f

Adjective

teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)

1. Having a bluish-green colour

Translations

colour

• Catalan: xarxet
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen, appelblauwzeegroene
• French: sarcelle (fr) m
• German: petrolblau
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Italian: foglia di tè
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• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo (pt)
• Romanian: albastru-verzui, albastru petrol
• Slovene: turkizen
• Spanish: azul petróleo
• Turkish: petrol yeşili, ördekbaşı (tr)

See also

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
red	orange	yellow	green	blue (incl.      indigo;              cyan, teal, turquoise)	purple / violet
pink (including          magenta)	brown		white	grey/gray	black

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, tela