tinamou

English

Elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans).

Etymology

Borrowed from French tinamou, from Cariban tinamu.

Noun

tinamou (plural tinamous)

1. Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.

Synonyms

• tinamid
• tinamiforme

Derived terms

• Andean tinamou
• barred tinamou
• Bartlett's tinamou
• Berlepsch's tinamou
• black-capped tinamou
• Brazilian tinamou
• brown tinamou
• brushland tinamou
• Chilean tinamou
• Choco tinamou
• cinereous tinamou
• curve-billed tinamou
• dwarf tinamou
• elegant crested tinamou
• great tinamou
• grey-legged tinamou
• highland tinamou
• hooded tinamou
• Huayco tinamou
• little tinamou
• ornate tinamou
• pale-browed tinamou
• Patagonian tinamou
• puna tinamou
• Quebracho crested tinamou
• red-legged tinamou
• red-winged tinamou
• rusty tinamou
• slaty-breasted tinamou
• small-billed tinamou
• Taczanowski's tinamou
• Tataupa tinamou
• tawny-breasted tinamou
• Tepui tinamou
• thicket tinamou
• undulated tinamou
• variegated tinamou
• yellow-legged tinamou

 

Translations

bird of the family Tinamidae

• Catalan: tinamú m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 䳍／𮭥 (gung¹)

  Mandarin: 䳍／𮭥 (zh) (gōng)

• Finnish: tinami (fi)
• French: tinamou (fr) m
• Italian: tinamo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Navajo: hodíłchʼiltah naaʼahóóhai
• Portuguese: inambu m, tinamu m
• Quechua: yuthu
• Romanian: tinamu m
• Russian: тинаму́ m (tinamú)
• Spanish: tinamú m
• Swedish: tinamo (sv) c

Anagrams

• manitou

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French

Etymology

From Cariban tinamu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.na.mu/

Noun

tinamou m (plural tinamous)

1. tinamou (bird)

Descendants

• → Catalan: tinamú
• → English: tinamou
• → Finnish: tinami
• → Italian: tinamo
• → Portuguese: tinamu
• → Romanian: tinamu
• → Russian: тинаму (tinamu)
• → Spanish: tinamú

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• manitou