budgerigar

English

A blue male budgerigar.

Wikispecies

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of Gamilaraay gijirrigaa; change of initial syllable unexplained though possibly from Aboriginal Pidgin English budgeree.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒəɹiˌɡɑɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒəɹiˌɡɑː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɐd͡ʒəɹiˌɡɐː/

Noun

budgerigar (plural budgerigars)

1. A species of small green parrot, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to inland Australia; a common cagebird throughout the world and bred in many colour varieties.

   Synonym: (diminutive) budgie

Translations

species of parakeet

• Arrernte: atetherre
• Asturian: periquitu (ast)
• Catalan: periquito m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 虎皮鸚鵡／虎皮鹦鹉 (zh) (hǔpí yīngwǔ)

• Czech: andulka f
• Danish: undulat (da)
• Dutch: grasparkiet (nl)
• Finnish: undulaatti (fi)
• French: perruche ondulée (fr) f
• Gamilaraay: gijirrigaa
• German: Wellensittich (de) m
• Hungarian: hullámos papagáj
• Icelandic: gári m
• Irish: budragár m
• Italian: pappagallino m
• Japanese: 脊黄青鸚哥 (セキセイインコ, sekiseiinko), 背黄青鸚哥 (ja) (せきせいいんこ, sekiseiinko)
• Korean: 사랑앵무 (sarang'aengmu)
• Lithuanian: banguotoji papūgėlė f
• Low German: Buttje m
• Malay: burung bejis
• Martuthunira: parnparn
• Navajo: tsídii yáłtiʼí yázhí bitsiiyah noodǫ́zígíí
• Ngarrindjerri: tirkuri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: undulat (no) m

  Nynorsk: undulat m

• Pitjintjatjara: killy-killykari
• Polish: papużka falista (pl) f
• Portuguese: periquito australiano m
• Romanian: peruș (ro) m
• Russian: волни́стый попуга́йчик m (volnístyj popugájčik)
• Serbo-Croatian: tigrica (sh) f
• Slovak: andulka (sk) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: papagajik m

• Spanish: periquito (es) m
• Swedish: undulat (sv) c
• Turkish: muhabbet kuşu (tr)
• Volapük: vefapapagil (vo)
• Wangkangurru: katatharra
• Welsh: byji m
• Yindjibarndi: batharra

See also

• budgie smugglers