petrel

See also: pétrel

English

Giant petrel

Etymology

From ealier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĕt'rəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Homophone: petrol

Noun

petrel (plural petrels)

1. Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.

Derived terms

terms derived from petrel (noun)

• Antarctic petrel
• ashy storm petrel
• Atlantic petrel
• Barau's petrel
• Bermuda petrel
• black-bellied storm petrel
• black-capped petrel
• black storm petrel
• black-winged petrel
• blue petrel
• Bonin petrel
• Bulwer's petrel
• Cape petrel
• cape petrel
• Chatham petrel
• common diving petrel
• Cook's petrel
• dark-rumped petrel
• diving petrel
• European storm petrel
• Fea's petrel
• Fiji petrel
• fork-tailed storm petrel
• fulmarine petrel
• gadfly petrel
• giant petrel
• Gould's petrel
• great-winged petrel
• grey-backed storm petrel
• Guadalupe storm petrel
• Hawaiian petrel
• herald petrel
• Juan Fernandez petrel
• Kaeding's petrel
• Kerguelen petrel
• Kermadec petrel
• Leach's petrel
• Leach's storm petrel
• least storm petrel
• Madeiran storm petrel
• Madeira petrel
• Magellan diving petrel
• Magenta petrel
• Markham's storm petrel
• Mas a Tierra petrel
• Mascarene petrel
• Matsudaira's storm petrel
• mottled petrel
• Murphy's petrel
• New Zealand storm petrel
• northern giant petrel
• Peruvian diving petrel
• Phoenix petrel
• Polynesian storm petrel
• Providence petrel
• Pycroft's petrel
• ringed storm petrel
• snow petrel
• soft-plumaged petrel
• southern giant petrel
• South Georgia diving petrel
• Stejneger's petrel
• storm petrel
• stormy petrel
• Swinhoe's storm petrel
• Tahiti petrel
• Tristram's storm petrel
• wedge-rumped storm petrel
• white-bellied storm petrel
• white-chinned petrel
• white-faced storm petrel
• white-headed petrel
• white-necked petrel
• white-vented storm petrel
• Wilson's petrel
• Wilson's storm petrel
• Wilson's storm Petrel
• Zino's petrel

 

Translations

Procellariiformes

• Azerbaijani: fırtına quşu
• Catalan: petrell m
• Chukchi: капотаԓгын (kapotaḷgyn), кэпутэт pl (kėputėt)
• Czech: buřňáček
• Danish: stormfugl c
• Dutch: stormvogel (nl) m
• Finnish: ulappaliitäjä
• French: pétrel (fr) m
• Galician: pardela f
• German: Sturmvogel (de) m
• Greek: θαλασσοβάτης m (thalassovátis), θαλασσοδρόμος m (thalassodrómos)
• Hungarian: hojsza, vészmadár (hu), viharmadár (hu)
• Irish: peadairín m, guairdeall
• Italian: procellaria (it) f, ossifraga f
• Korean: 슴새 (seumsae)
• Kumyk: боранкъуш (boranquş), денгиз каракъуш (deñiz karaquş)
• Maori: ōi
• Russian: буреве́стник (ru) m (burevéstnik)
• Spanish: petrel m, damero (es) m
• Swahili: mlinzi (sw)
• Tatar: давыл кошы (dawıl qoşı)
• Turkish: yelkovan (tr), fırtınakuşu
• Welsh: pedryn m, gwylan y graig f

References

• petrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Procellariiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Procellariiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• pelter

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pétrel.

Noun

petrel m (plural petrei)

1. petrel

Declension

Declension of petrel

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) petrel	petrelul	(niște) petrei	petreii
genitive/dative	(unui) petrel	petrelului	(unor) petrei	petreilor
vocative	petrelule		petreilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English petrel or French pétrel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈtɾel/ [peˈt̪ɾel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pe‧trel

Noun

petrel m (plural petreles)

1. petrel

Descendants

• → Catalan: petrell

Further reading

• “petrel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014