guinea fowl

See also: guineafowl and guinea-fowl

English

A helmeted guinea fowl.

Alternative forms

• guineafowl, guinea-fowl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪni ˌfaʊl/

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Noun

guinea fowl (plural guinea fowls or guinea fowl)

1. Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.
   • 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 273:

     A tiny white head with a small red wattle hanging from its beak was peeking into our tent. It whistled softly. I laughed. A guinea fowl.

Derived terms

• black guineafowl
• crested guineafowl
• helmeted guineafowl
• plumed guineafowl
• vulturine guineafowl
• white-breasted guineafowl

 

Translations

bird

• Afrikaans: tarentaal
• Albanian: pula faraone ?
• Arabic: غِرْغِر (ḡirḡir)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: তিতৰ (titor), তিতৌ কুকুৰা (titou kukura), চীনা কুকুৰা (sina kukura)
• Basque: pintada
• Belarusian: цацарка f (cacarka)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: klujar-Spagn ?
• Bulgarian: токачка f (tokačka)
• Catalan: pintada (ca) f, gallina de guinea f
• Chichewa: nkhanga
• Czech: perlička (cs) f
• Danish: perlehøne c
• Dutch: parelhoen (nl) n, poelepetaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: numido
• Estonian: pärlkana
• Ewe: tsaxe
• Faroese: perluhøna f
• Finnish: helmikana (fi)
• French: pintade (fr) f
• Friulian: faraone ?, gjaline faraone ?
• Galician: galiña de guiné f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Perlhuhn n
• Greek: φραγκόκοτα (el) f (fragkókota)

  Ancient: μελεαγρίς f (meleagrís), γαράμας m (garámas)

• Haitian Creole: pentad
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: gyöngytyúk (hu)
• Icelandic: perluhænsn n
• Ido: pintado (io)
• Irish: cearc ghuine f (female), coileach guine m (male)
• Italian: faraona (it) f
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Ladin: faraona f
• Latvian: pērļu vistiņa ?
• Lithuanian: patarška (lt) f
• Macedonian: би́серка f (bíserka)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: farawna f
• Manx: eeanlee injinagh m
• Mpade: safan
• Navajo: naaʼahóóhaistłʼinii
• Northern Sami: pearalvuonccis
• Norwegian: perlehøne (no)
• Occitan: pintarda (oc) f
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: perliczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: galinha d'angola (pt) f, galinha-da-índia (pt) f, galinha-da-guiné (pt) f, pintada (pt) f, estou-fraca (pt) f, cocar (pt) f, capote (pt) m
• Romanian: bibilică (ro) f, pichire (ro) f
• Romansch: giaglina perlada f
• Russian: цеса́рка (ru) f (cesárka)
• Sardinian: magliocchina f, pudda de ìndias f
• Scottish Gaelic: cearc Innseanach f (female), coileach Innseanach m (male)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѝсӣрка f, бѝсе̄рка f, мо̑рка f

  Roman: mìsīrka (sh) f, bìsērka (sh) f, mȏrka (sh) f

• Slovak: perlička f
• Slovene: pegatka (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: parlickata kokoška f, parlickata kurka f

  Upper Sorbian: parlawa f, krjepjena f

• Spanish: gallina de Guinea f
• Swahili: kanga (sw), kororo (sw)
• Swedish: pärlhöna (sv) c (hjälmpärlhöna)
• Sylheti: ꠔꠤꠔꠞ (titor)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: గిన్నికోడి (te) (ginnikōḍi)
• Tumbuka: nkhanga
• Turkish: beçtavuğu (tr)
• Ukrainian: цеса́рка (uk) f (cesárka)
• Welsh: iâr gini f, combác m, cochwat m
• West Frisian: poepeletaat ?
• Wolof: naat bi (wo)
• Xhosa: impangele
• Zulu: impangele

Further reading

• guinea fowl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia