pigeon

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pigeon
Columba guinea

Alternative forms

• pidgeon (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French pyjon, from Late Latin pipionem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of Latin pipio (“chirping bird”), from pipiō (“to chirp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"pIdZIn/
• (US) enPR: pĭjʹən, IPA: /ˈpɪdʒən/, X-SAMPA: /"pIdZ@n/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒən, -ɪdʒɪn
• Homophone: pidgin

Noun

pigeon (plural pigeons)

1. One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.
2. (slang) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

Synonyms

• (bird): columbid (Columbidae), columbiform (Columbiformes), culver, dove
• (person who is a target or victim of a confidence game): dupe, fish, mark, mug, sucker, rube, stiff

Derived terms

Terms derived from pigeon

Afep Pigeon (Columba unicincta) African owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica) African Green Pigeon (Treron calvus) African Olive Pigeon American pigeon (Patagioenas) Arabian trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica) archangel pigeon (Columba livia domestica) baby pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) barb pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Barbary pigeon (Columba livia domestica) bare-eyed mountain pigeon bare-eyed pigeon Beretta Silver Pigeon Bismarck imperial pigeon black imperial pigeon Bokhara trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Bolle's pigeon (Columba bollii) Bresse pigeon Flock Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps histrionica), Flock Bronzewing (Phaps histrionica) Brown Pigeon (Macropygia phasianella) carrier pigeon (Columba livia domestica) carneau pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Chilean Pigeon (Patagioenas araucana) Chinese owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica) city pigeon (Columba livia domestica) clay pigeon cock pigeon color pigeon (Columba livia domestica) colour pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Comoros Green Pigeon (Treron comorensis) crescent pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) crested pigeon crop pigeon (Columba livia domestica) cropper pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Crowned pigeon (Goura) Delegorgue's Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) domestic pigeon, (Columba livia domestica), Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica) dovecot pigeon (Columba livia domestica) dovecote pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Dresden trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon (Columba delegorguei) English trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia domestica) English owl pigeon (Columba livia domestica) fancy pigeon (Columba livia domestica) fantail pigeon (Columba livia domestica) female pigeon feral pigeon (Columba livia domestica) field pigeon (Columba livia domestica) fire pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Flock Pigeon (Phaps histrionica) form pigeon (Columba livia domestica) frillback pigeon (Columba livia domestica) fruit pigeon, fruit-pigeon Future Pigeon gimpel pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Green pigeon (Treron) helmet pigeon (Columba livia domestica) hen pigeon highflyer pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Hill Pigeon (Columba rupestris) homer pigeon (Columba livia domestica) homing pigeon (Columba livia domestica)

ice pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Imperial pigeon (Ducula) Indian fantail pigeon (Columba livia domestica) jacobin pigeon (Columba livia domestica) John Silver (war pigeon) king pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Komorner tumbler pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Madagascar Green Pigeon (Treron australis) Micronesian Imperial Pigeon (Ducula oceanica) Micronesian Pigeon (Ducula oceanica) Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon Moluccan Fufous-bellied Fruit Pigeon (Ducula basilica) lahore pigeon (Columba livia domestica), Lahore pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Laurel Pigeon (Columba junoniae) male pigeon New Guinea Bronzewing (Henicophaps albifrons), New Guinea Bronzewing Pigeon (Henicophaps albifrons) nun pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Old English carrier pigeon (Columba livia domestica) oriental frill pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) peak-crested pigeon pheasant pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis) Picazuro Pigeon (Patagioenas picazuro) pigeon band pigeon banding pigeon blue pigeon breast pigeon-breasted pigeon breed pigeon breeder pigeon breeding pigeon bug pigeon-chested pigeon clock pigeon cot pigeon cote pigeon crop pigeon defence pigeon defense pigeon dirt pigeon disease pigeon drop pigeon droppings pigeon egg pigeon English (archaic) pigeon fancier, pigeon-fancier pigeon fancy pigeon fancying pigeon feather pigeon feed pigeon feeder pigeon feeding pigeon flute pigeon guillemot pigeon hawk (Falco columbarius) pigeon house pigeonhole, pigeon-hole, pigeon hole pigeonholing, pigeon-holing pigeon hunt pigeon hunter pigeon hunting pigeon journal pigeon keeper pigeon keeping

pigeon loft pigeon lung pigeon magazine pigeon milk pigeon's milk pigeon pair pigeon pie pigeon plumage pigeon post pigeon shoot pigeon squab pigeon racer pigeon racing pigeon ring pigeon whistle pigeon wing pigeon young Pink Pigeon (Columba mayeri), formerly (Nesoenas mayeri) plain-headed pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Plain Pigeon (Patagioenas inornata) Plumbeous Pigeon (Patagioenas inornata) pouter pigeon (Columba livia) powter pigeon (old spelling) (Columba livia) put the cat among the pigeons racing homer pigeon (Columba livia domestica) racing pigeon (Columba livia domestica) ringbeater pigeon (Columba livia domestica) rock pigeon (Columba livia) roller pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Ruddy Pigeon (Patagioenas subvinacea) Rufous-Bellied Fruit Pigeon (Ducula rufigaster) Rufous Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) runt pigeon (Columba livia domestica) Saxon field pigeon (Columba livia domestica) scandaroon pigeon (Columba livia domestica), Scandaroon pigeon (Columba livia domestica) shell-crested pigeon silver pigeon Silver Pigeon silvery pigeon Snow Pigeon Somali Pigeon Somber Pigeon (Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa) Sombre Pigeon(Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa) Stock Pigeon (Columba oenas) stool pigeon strasser pigeon (Columba livia) structure pigeon (Columba livia) Sumatran Green Pigeon Temminck's Fruit Pigeon (Ptilinopus porphyreus) Thuringian field pigeon (Columba livia) Topknot Pigeon Trocaz Pigeon trumpeter pigeon (Columba livia) tumbler pigeon (Columba livia) turbit pigeon (Columba livia) turbiteen pigeon (Columba livia) Victoria Crowned Pigeon, (Goura victoria) war pigeon wattle pigeon (Columba livia) wattled pigeon (Columba livia) White-collared Pigeon White-crowned Pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) wild pigeon Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) Wompoo Pigeon (Ptilinopus magnificus) Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca) woodpigeon, wood-pigeon, wood pigeon young pigeon

Translations

bird of the pigeon and dove family Columbidae

• Afrikaans: duif (af)
• Albanian: pëllumbi (sq)
• Arabic: حمامة (ar) (ḥamāma) f

  Egyptian Arabic: حمامة (ḥamāma) f

• Armenian: աղավնի (hy) (aġavni)
• Azeri: göyərçin (az)
• Baluchi: کپوت
• Bashkir: күгәрсен (kügärsen)
• Basque: uso (eu), urzo (eu)
• Belarusian: голуб (be) (hólub) m
• Bengali: কবুতর (bn) (kôbutôr)
• Breton: dube (br)
• Bulgarian: гълъб (bg) (gǎ̀lǎb) m
• Catalan: colom (ca) m
• Chamicuro: pujtuku
• Cherokee: ᏬᏱ (chr) (woyi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴿子 (cmn), 鸽子 (cmn) (gēzi)

• Czech: holub (cs) m
• Danish: due (da) c
• Dutch: (♂♀) duif (nl) f and m, (♂) doffer (nl) m, (♂) mannetjesduif (nl) m, (♀) duivin (nl) f, (♀) vrouwtjesduif (nl) f, (diminutive ♂♀) duifje (nl) n
• Esperanto: (♂♀) kolombo (eo), (♂) virkolombo (eo), (neologism, ♂) kolombiĉo (eo), (♀) kolombino (eo), (♂♀) kolombido (eo), (♂) virkolombido (eo), (neologism, ♂) kolombidiĉo (eo), (♀) kolombidino (eo),
• Estonian: tuvi (et)
• Faroese: dúgva (fo) f
• Finnish: kyyhky (fi)
• French: (♂♀) pigeon (fr) m, (♀) pigeonne (fr) f, (♂♀ offspring) pigeonneau (fr) m, (♀ offspring) pigeonnelle (fr) f
• Friulian: colomp
• Galician: pomba (gl) f
• Georgian: მტრედი (ka) (mtredi)
• German: (♂♀) Taube (de) f, (♂), Tauber (de) m, (♂) Täuber (de) m, (♂) Tauberich (de) m, (♂) Täuberich (de) m, (♀) Täubin (de) f, (diminutive ♂♀) Täubchen (de) n, (diminutive ♂♀) Täublein (de) n, (taxonomy) Kolumbide (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌺𐍃 (ahaks) f, 𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (dubo) f
• Greek: περιστέρι (el) (peristéri) n
• Guaraní: pykasu (gn), jeruti (gn)
• Hawaiian: nūnū
• Hebrew: יוֹנָה (he) (yoná) f
• Hindi: कबूतर (hi) (kabūtar) m
• Hungarian: galamb (hu)
• Icelandic: dúfa (is) f
• Ido: (♂♀) kolombo (io), (♂) kolombulo (io), (♀) kolombino (io), (♂♀ offspring) kolombyuno (io), (♂ offspring) kolombyunulo (io), (♂♀ offspring) kolombyunino (io), (diminutive, ♂♀) kolombeto (io)
• Igbo: ńdò
• Indonesian: merpati (id), burung merpati (id), dara (id), burung dara (id)
• Interlingua: columba (ia), pipion (ia)
• Irish: colm (ga), colmán (ga), colúr (ga)
• Italian: piccione (it) m, picciona (it) f, colombo (it) m, colomba (it) f
• Japanese: 鳩 (ja) (はと, hato)
• Kashubian: gòłąbk (csb) m
• Khmer: ព្រាប (km) (priep)
• Korean: 비둘기 (ko) (bidulgi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کۆتر

• Ladin: colomba
• Ladino: palomba f, palumba f
• Latgalian: bolūds
• Latin: columbus (la) m, columba (la) f, columbulus (la) m, columbula (la) f
• Latvian: balodis (lv)
• Lithuanian: karvelis (lt) m, balandis (lt) m

• Low German: Duuv (nds) f, Düffer (nds) m, Duffer (nds) m
• Macedonian: гулаб (mk) (gúlab) m
• Malay: burung merpati (ms)
• Maltese: ħamiema (mt) f
• Maori: karoro tangi harau (mi)
• Mapudungun: conulaf
• Mongolian: тагтаа (mn) (tagtaa)
• Navajo: hasbídí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (♂♀) due (no) f and m, (♂) hanndue (no) f and m, (♂) duestegg (no) m, (♀) hunndue (no) f and m

  Nynorsk: (♂♀) due (nn) f, (♂♀) dua (nn) f (variant form), (♂) hanndue (nn) f, (♂) duestegg (nn) m, (♀) hodue (nn) f

• Occitan: colomb (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: голѫбь (golǫbĭ) m

  Glagolitic: ⰃⰑⰎⰨⰁⰠ (golǫbĭ) m

• Old English: dūfe (ang) (unattested; cf. Dūfe woman's given name)
• Persian: کبوتر (fa) (kabutar), کفتر (fa) (kaftar), (dialectal) کمتر (fa) (kamtar)
• Polabian: ďölǫb m
• Polish: gołąb (pl) m
• Portuguese: pombo (pt) m, pomba (pt) f
• Quechua: irpa (qu)
• Romani: golumbo m, golumbaika f
• Romanian: porumbel (ro)
• Romansch: columba (rm)
• Russian: голубь (ru) (gólubʹ) m
• Sami: duvvá (livia), dielkoduvvá (palumbus)
• Sardinian: piccioni aresti (sc), caombu (sc), palumba (sc), columbu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: calman (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: голуб (sh) m, голубица (sh) f

  Roman: golub (sh) m, golubica (sh) f

• Slovak: holub (sk) m
• Slovene: golob (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gołub m

  Upper Sorbian: hołb (hsb) m

• Spanish: paloma (es) f, (male) palomo (es) m, (offspring, young) pichón (es) m
• Swahili: hua (sw), njiwa (sw)
• Swedish: duva (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalapati (tl)
• Tajik: кабӯтар (tg) (kabūtar)
• Tamil: புறா (ta) (puraa)
• Telugu: పావురము (te) (pAvuramu)
• Thai: นกพิราบ (nók pírâap)
• Tok Pisin: pisin (tpi)
• Tswana: lephoi (tn)
• Tupinambá: pykasu
• Turkish: güvercin (tr)
• Ukrainian: голуб (uk) (hólub) m
• Urdu: کبوتر (ur) (kabutar) m
• Uyghur: كەپتەر (ug) (kepter)
• Uzbek: kaptak (uz)
• Vietnamese: chim bồ câu (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) pijun (vo), (♂) hipijun (vo), (♀) jipijun (vo), (♂♀ offspring) pijunül (vo), (♂ offspring) hipijunül (vo), (♀ offspring) jipijunül (vo), (diminutive, ♂♀) pijunil (vo), (diminutive, ♂) hipijunil (vo), (diminutive ♀) jipijunil (vo), (augmentative, ♂♀) lepijun (vo), (augmentative, ♂) hilepijun (vo), (augmentative, ♀) jilepijun (vo), (obsolete, ♂♀) pejin (vo)
• Welsh: colomen (cy)
• West Frisian: do (fy)
• Yiddish: טױב (yi) (toyb, tojb) f
• Yucatec Maya: mukuy

victim of a confidence game

• Finnish: uhri (fi), höynäytettävä (fi)
• French: pigeon (fr) m
• Greek: θύμα (el) (thýma) n, κορόιδο (el) (koróido) n

• Russian: лох (ru) (lox) m
• Swahili: njiwa (sw)

See also

• piper
• squab
• squeaker

Verb

pigeon (third-person singular simple present pigeons, present participle pigeoning, simple past and past participle pigeoned)

1. (transitive) to deceive with a confidence game
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French

Etymology

From Old French pyjon, from Late Latin pipionem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of Latin pipio (“chirping bird”), from pipiō (“to chirp”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /piʒɔ̃/

Noun

pigeon m (plural pigeons)

1. pigeon

Synonyms

• colombe
• columbidé (Columbidae, columbidés)

Derived terms

aile de pigeon je me suis fait pigeonner je me suis laissé pigeonner loger avec les pigeons loger comme les pigeons l'industrie pigeonnière pigeon à calotte pigeon à capuchon pigeon à caroncule pigeon à cravate pigeon à grosse gorge pigeon biset pigeon bleu pigeon boulant pigeon bouvreuil pigeon capucin pigeon cigogne

pigeon colombin pigeon cravaté pigeon culbutant pigeon d'argile pigeon de fantaise pigeon de roche pigeon de structure pigeon des villes pigeon de ville pigeon domestique pigeon domestiqué pigeon femelle pigeon grosse gorge pigeonite pigeon mâle pigeon messager pigeon migrateur

pigeonnier militaire pigeonnage pigeonnant pigeonne pigeonner pigeonnier pigeonnier contraceptif pigeonneau pigeonnelle pigeon paon pigeon ramier pigeon romain pigeon tambour pigeon vole pigeon voyageur plumer un pigeon soutien-gorge pigeonnant

See also

• colombiculteur
• colombiculture
• colombier
• colombophilie
• colombophile
• tourte
• tourterelle
• tourtière

Anagrams

• poigne

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French pyjon, from Late Latin pipionem (“chirping bird”), accusative singular of Latin pipio (“chirping bird”), from pipiō (“to chirp”).

Noun

pigeon m (plural pigeons)

1. pigeon

Derived terms

Derived terms

d'mié-pigeon, p'tit pigeon d'France (“turtledove”) pigeon d'colombyi (“stock dove”)

pigeon d'mé, pigeon d'falaise (“rock dove”) pigeon ramyi, pigeon sauvage (“wood pigeon”)