yellowhammer

See also: yellow hammer and yellow-hammer

English

an especially yellow yellowhammer

geographic distribution of the yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)

Alternative forms

• yellow-ammer, yellow-hammer

Etymology

Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).

Noun

yellowhammer (plural yellowhammers)

1. A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
2. (US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus.
3. A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

Synonyms

• (Emberiza citronella): yellow bunting, ammer, yelamber, yeorling, yowley, yeldrin, yite

Translations

a passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella

• Bulgarian: жълтурка (žǎlturka)
• Catalan: verderola, hortolà groc
• Czech: strnad (cs)
• Danish: gulspurv (da) c
• Dutch: geelgors (nl) f
• Estonian: talvike
• Faroese: gulspurvur m
• Finnish: keltasirkku (fi)
• French: Bruant jaune m
• Galician: escribenta amarela f, escribán (gl) m
• German: Goldammer (de) f

  Alemannic German: Geelamere f, Goldamere f

• Hungarian: citromsármány (hu)
• Inari Sami: fiskiscissááš
• Italian: zigolo giallo
• Japanese: キアオジ, 黄青鵐
• Latvian: dzeltenā stērste f

• Lithuanian: geltonoji starta
• Lule Sami: visskátsihtse
• Northern Sami: fiskescihci
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gulspurv m

  Nynorsk: gulsporv m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: trznadel (pl) m
• Portuguese: verdelha (pt) f, escrevedeira-amarela f
• Romanian: presură galbenă
• Russian: овся́нка обыкновенная (ovsjánka obyknovennaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: buidheag-bhealaidh f
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: gulsparv (sv) c
• Vilamovian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: penfelyn (cy) m

a native or resident of the American state of Alabama

• Russian: штат золотистого дятла (štat zolotistovo djatla)

Further reading

• yellowhammer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Emberiza citrinella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Emberiza citrinella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons