chickadee

English edit

Black-capped chickadee

Etymology edit

Apparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls making a distinctive “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” sound, possibly influenced by chick or chicken.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪ.kəˌdi/
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Noun edit

chickadee (plural chickadees)

A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus Parus or the family Paridae.
Synonyms: tit, titmouse
- 1904, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fragments on Nature and Life”, in Poems:
  In Walden wood the chickadee / Runs round the pine and maple tree
Affectionate term of address.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

songbird

Afrikaans: mees (af)
Albanian: trishtil (sq) m, tringec (sq) m, cinkë (sq) f
Armenian: երաշտահավ (hy) (eraštahav)
Asturian: branín (ast)
Belarusian: сіні́ца f (siníca), гіль m (hilʹ)
Bulgarian: сини́гер (bg) m (siníger)
Catalan: mallerenga (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山雀 (zh) (shānquè)
Czech: sýkora (cs) f, sýkorka f
Danish: mejse (da) c
Dutch: mees (nl) f
Esperanto: paruo (eo)
Estonian: tihane (et)
Faroese: títa f
Finnish: tiainen (fi) (family Paridae); talitiainen (fi) (genus Parus)
French: mésange (fr) f
Galician: meixengra f
German: Meise (de) f
Greek: παπαδίτσα (el) f (papadítsa)
Hindi: रामगंगरा (rāmgaṅgrā)
Hungarian: cinege (hu), cinke (hu)
Irish: méantán m
Italian: cincia (it) f
Japanese: 四十雀 (ja) (shijūkara), シジュウカラ (ja) (shijūkara)
Korean: 박새 (ko) (baksae)
Latin: parus
Lithuanian: zylė (lt) f
Low German: Mees’ f, Meesch f
Lutshootseed: c̓əlc̓əlkayus
Luxembourgish: Mees f
Macedonian: сипка f (sipka), сенка f (senka)
Mohawk: tsiktsiré:re
Navajo: chʼíshiibeezhii
Norwegian: meis (no) m
Panamint: annakki
Persian: چرخ‌ریسک
Polish: sikora (pl) f
Portuguese: chapim (pt) m
Romanian: pițigoi (ro) m
Romansch: maset m
Russian: сини́ца (ru) f (siníca), га́ичка (ru) f (gáička)
Sami:
Skolt Sami: ceeʒʒaž
Scottish Gaelic: cailleachag f, currac-baintighearna f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сеница f, сјеница f

Roman: senica (sh) f, sjenica (sh) f
Sicilian: cacasipala (scn) f
Slovak: sýkorka (sk) f
Slovene: sinica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sykora, sykorka

Upper Sorbian: sykorka, sykora
Spanish: carbonero (es) m
Swedish: mes (sv) c, tita (sv) c
Ukrainian: сини́ця f (synýcja)
Vietnamese: bạc má
Volapük: parud (vo)
Walloon: mazindje (wa) f
West Frisian: mies