cockerel

English

Etymology

From Middle English cockerelle, equivalent to cock +‎ -rel.

Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

1. A young male chicken.
   • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6

     He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

Related terms

• cock

Translations

young male chicken

• Bulgarian: младо петле (bg) (mlado petle)
• Catalan: pollastre (ca), pollet (ca)
• Czech: kohoutek (cs) m
• Dalmatian: poluastro m
• Danish: hanekylling (da)
• Dutch: haantje (nl) n
• Finnish: kukonpoika (fi)
• German: Hahn (de) m
• Greek: πετεινάρι (el) (peteinári) n

• Hungarian: kiskakas (hu)
• Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro (it) m
• Latvian: gailēns m
• Manx: eean kellee (gv) m
• Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m
• Russian: петушок (ru) (petušók) m
• Swahili: jimbi (sw)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: سوک (suk)

See also

• chicken
• hen
• rooster