hummingbird

English

Rufous hummingbird (one species of hummingbird)

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Alternative forms

• humming bird, humming-bird

Etymology

• Onomatopoeic of the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings. See hum. See below.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hummingbird (plural hummingbirds)

1. Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
   • 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)

     Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

Translations

any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae

• Arabic: طنان (ar) (ṭanān) m

  Egyptian Arabic: طنان (ṭanān) m, كوليبري (kolibri) m

• Catalan: colibrí (ca) m
• Chamicuro: pishlo
• Cherokee: ᏩᎴᎷ (chr) (walelu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜂鳥 (cmn), 蜂鸟 (cmn) (fēngniǎo)

• Czech: kolibřík (cs) m
• Dutch: kolibrie (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolibro (eo)
• Finnish: kolibri (fi)
• French: colibri (fr), oiseau-mouche (fr) m
• German: Kolibri (de) m, Schwirrvogel (de) m
• Greek: κολιμπρί (kolibri) n
• Haitian Creole: wanganègès, zwazo mouch
• Hungarian: kolibri (hu)
• Icelandic: kólibrífugl (is) m
• Italian: colibri (it) m
• Japanese: ハチドリ (ja) (hachidori)
• Latin: colubris m
• Manx: ushag ving (gv) f
• Navajo: dahiitį́hii

• Persian: مرغ مگس‌خوار (fa) (morğ-e magas-xâr)
• Polish: koliber (pl) m
• Portuguese: beija-flor (pt) m, colibri (pt) m
• Romanian: colibri (ro)
• Russian: колибри (ru) (kolíbri) f (indeclinable)
• Scottish Gaelic: drannd-eun (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: колѝбри (sh) m

  Roman: kolìbri (sh) m

• Slovak: kolibrík (sk) m
• Spanish: colibrí m, chupaflor m (Colombia), chuparrosa m (Mexico), gorrión m (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua), picaflor (es) m (South America), quinde m (Ecuadorian and Northern Peruvian Andes), tucusito m (Venezuela), visitaflor m (Panama), zumbador m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), zunzún m (Cuba)
• Swedish: kolibri (sv)
• Taos: tȕculóna
• Turkish: sinek kuşu (tr)
• Volapük: (male or female) kolibrit (vo), (male) hikolibrit (vo), (female) jikolibrit (vo), (male or female offspring, young) kolibritül (vo), (male offspring, young) hikolibritül (vo), (female offspring, young) jikolibritül (vo), (older term) smabödil (vo)
• Yucatec Maya: ts’unu’un

Related terms

any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae

trochilidine

See also

• snowcap