woodpecker

English

A black woodpecker

Etymology

From wood +‎ pecker. Compare Middle English wod spek (“woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͝odʹpĕkər, IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdpɛkə/
• enPR: wo͝odʹpĕ'kər, IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdˌpɛkɚ/
• Hyphenation: wood‧peck‧er

Noun

woodpecker (plural woodpeckers)

1. Any bird of many-species subfamily Picinae, with a sharp beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
2. (military slang) Type 92 heavy machine gun

Synonyms

• speight, spight

Hypernyms

• picid

Hyponyms

• flicker

Derived terms

• acorn woodpecker
• black woodpecker
• great spotted woodpecker
• green woodpecker
• lesser spotted woodpecker
• pileated woodpecker
• red-cockaded woodpecker
• woodpeckerlike
• woodpeckerologist
• woodpeckerology

 

Translations

bird in Picinae

• Afrikaans: houtkapper
• Albanian: qukapikorët
• Amharic: ግንደ ቆርቁር (gəndä ḳorḳur)
• Arabic: نَقَار اَلْخَشَب m (naqār al-ḵašab)
• Armenian: փայտփորիկ (hy) (pʻaytpʻorik)
• Assamese: কাঠৰোকা (kathrüka), বাঢ়ৈটোকা (barhoitüka)
• Asturian: picatueru m
• Azerbaijani: ağacdələn (az)
• Bashkir: тумыртҡа (tumırtqa)
• Basque: piziformeak
• Belarusian: дзя́цел m (dzjácjel)
• Breton: speged
• Bulgarian: кълва́ч (bg) m (kǎlváč)
• Catalan: picot m
• Central Sierra Miwok: palát·atà-
• Chamicuro: me'na
• Chechen: хенакӏур (xenakʼur)
• Chichewa: gogomole
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴷／䴕 (zh) (liè), 啄木鳥／啄木鸟 (zh) (zhuómùniǎo), 啄木鸟 (zh) (zhuómùniǎo)

• Chukchi: уттырэвымрэв (uttyrėvymrėv)
• Cornish: kasek koos f
• Czech: datel (cs) m, strakapoud m
• Danish: spætte (da)
• Dutch: specht (nl) m, groene specht m
• Erzya: шекшата (šekšata)
• Esperanto: pego
• Estonian: rähn (et)
• Faroese: spæta f
• Finnish: tikka (fi)
• French: pic (fr) m; (green woodpecker) pic-vert (fr) m, pivert (fr) m
• Friulian: pic
• Gagauz: aaçkakan
• Galician: peto m, picapau m, piquelo m
• Georgian: კოდალა (ḳodala)
• German: Specht (de) m
• Greek: δρυοκολάπτης (el) m (dryokoláptis), τρυποκάρυδος m (trypokárydos)

  Ancient: δρύοψ m (drúops), πελεκᾶς m (pelekâs)

• Hindi: हुदहुद (hi) m (hudhud), कठफोड़वा (hi) m (kaṭhphoṛvā), कठफोड़ा (hi) m (kaṭhphoṛā)
• Hungarian: harkály (hu), fakopáncs (hu)
• Icelandic: spæta (is) f
• Ido: pego (io)
• Indonesian: burung pelatuk (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: cnagaire
• Italian: picchio (it) m
• Japanese: 啄木鳥 (ja) (きつつき, kitsutsuki), キツツキ (ja) (kitsutsuki)
• Korean: 딱따구리 (ko) (ttakttaguri)
• Kyrgyz: тоңкулдак (ky) (toŋkuldak), доңкулдак (ky) (doŋkuldak)
• Ladino: becalen
• Lakota: čhaŋkátotola
• Latgalian: (genus Dendrocopos) dzeņs, (genus Picus or Dryocopus) dzylna f
• Latin: pīcus m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: (genus Dendrocopos) dzenis (lv) m, (genus Picus or Dryocopus) dzilna f
• Lithuanian: (genus Dendrocopos) genys (lt) m ; (genus Picus or Dryocopus) meleta (lt) f
• Low German: Holthacker m, Boomhacker m, Boombicker m, Boomlöper m
• Luxembourgish: Spiecht m
• Macedonian: клукајдрвец m (klukajdrvec), детел m (detel)
• Malay: belatuk
• Manchu: ᡨᠣᡵᡥᠣᠨ (torhon)
• Mi'kmaq: apo'qatej anim
• Navajo: tsin yiłkaałii
• Northern Sami: čáihni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hakkespett (no) m, hakkespette m or f

  Nynorsk: hakkespett m, hakkespette f

• Occitan: picot m
• Ojibwe: baabaase, baapaase
• Old English: fina m, *spiht m
• Persian: دارکوب (fa) (dârkub)
• Polish: dzięcioł (pl)
• Portuguese: pica-pau (pt) m, picapau (pt) m
• Potawatomi: babasé
• Quechua: hak'akllu
• Romani: chuplitari m, chuplitarka f
• Romanian: ghionoaie (ro) f, ciocănitoare (ro) f
• Romansch: pitgalain
• Russian: дя́тел (ru) m (djátel)
• Santali: ᱮᱨᱮ (ere)
• Sardinian: biccalinna f, biccamuru m, biccamatta f
• Scottish Gaelic: snagan-daraich m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детлић m (Ekavian), дјетлић m (Ijekavian); жуна f; детао n (Ekavian), дјетао n (Ijekavian)

  Roman: detlić (sh) m (Ekavian), djetlić (sh) m (Ijekavian); žuna (sh) f; detao (sh) n (Ekavian), djetao (sh) n (Ijekavian)

• Slovak: ďateľ m
• Slovene: detel m, žolna (sl) f (these are two distinct species)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiśelc m

  Upper Sorbian: dypornak m, dypak m

• Southern Altai: томуртка (tomurtka)
• Spanish: pájaro carpintero (es) m, pito (es) m
• Swahili: kigong'ota
• Swedish: hackspett (sv)
• Tagalog: tariktik
• Telugu: వడ్రంగిపిట్ట (te) (vaḍraṅgipiṭṭa), మానుతొలుచుపిట్ట (te) (mānutolucupiṭṭa)
• Turkish: ağaçkakan (tr)
• Turkmen: daşdeşen
• Ukrainian: дя́тел (uk) m (djátel)
• Venetian: pigòzo m
• Vietnamese: gõ kiến
• Volapük: pikit (vo)
• Welsh: cnocell (y coed) f
• West Frisian: spjocht
• Wolof: ngorkaan li
• Yiddish: פּיקהאָלץ m (pikholts)

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