yellowhammer

See also: yellow hammer and yellow-hammer

English

Alternative forms

yellow-ammer, yellow-hammer

Etymology

An alteration (influenced by hammer) of the 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).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛl.oʊˌhæm.ɚ/

Noun

yellowhammer (plural yellowhammers)

A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
Synonyms: ammer, goldhammer, yelamber, yeorling, yellow bunting, yowley, yeldrin, yite
(US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat.
A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

Translations

a passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella

Asturian: mederizu (ast), pardomostu (ast)
Belarusian: стрынатка f (strynatka), аўсянка звычайна f (awsjanka zvyčajna)
Bulgarian: жълтурка (žălturka), овесарка f (ovesarka)
Carpathian Rusyn: жовтурка f (žovturka)
Catalan: verderola, hortolà groc
Czech: strnad obecný
Danish: gulspurv (da) c
Dutch: geelgors (nl) f
Esperanto: flava emberizo
Estonian: talvike
Faroese: gulspurvur m
Finnish: keltasirkku (fi)
French: bruant jaune (fr) m
Galician: pimpís m, escribenta amarela f, escribán (gl) m, escribenta (gl) f
German: Goldammer (de) f
Alemannic German: Geelamere f, Goldamere f
Greek: χρυσοτσίχλονο n (chrysotsíchlono)
Hungarian: citromsármány (hu)
Ingrian: keltacirkkulain
Italian: zigolo giallo
Japanese: 黄青鵐 (kiaoji)
Kashubian: zwëczajny żółtobrzuszk m
Korean: 노랑멧새 (norangmetsae)
Latvian: dzeltenā stērste f
Lithuanian: geltonoji starta
Macedonian: жолтогрлата стрнарка f (žoltogrlata strnarka)
Maltese: durrajsa safra f
Māori: hurukōwhai
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)
Sami:
Inari Sami: fiskiscissááš

Lule Sami: visskátsihtse

Northern Sami: fiskescihci
Scottish Gaelic: buidheag-bhealaidh f
Serbo-Croatian: стрнадица жутовољка f, strnadica žutovoljka (sh) f
Slovak: strnádka obyčajná f, strnádka žltá f
Slovene: rumeni strnad m
Spanish: escribano cerillo m
Swedish: gulsparv (sv) c
Turkish: sarı kiraz kuşu (tr)
Ukrainian: вівсянка звичайна f (vivsjanka zvyčajna)
Vilamovian: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: bras melyn m

a native or resident of the American state of Alabama

Dutch: gouden grondspecht (nl) m
Russian: штат золотистого дятла (štat zolotistovo djatla)