cormorant

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EnglishEdit

A cormorant

EtymologyEdit

From Old French cormaran (modern cormoran), from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”).

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹməɹənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːməɹənt/

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NounEdit

cormorant (plural cormorants)

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae, especially the great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

2. A voracious eater; a glutton.

   When for the dear delight another pays,

   his treasured stores those cormorants consume...

   The Odyssey trans. Alexander Pope

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

SynonymsEdit

• (voracious eater): see Thesaurus:glutton

TranslationsEdit

seabird

• Ainu: ウリル (uriru)
• Assamese: পানী কাউৰী (pani kauri), দৈকলা (dôikôla)
• Bulgarian: дяволица f (djavolica), голям корморан m (goljam kormoran)
• Catalan: corb marí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鸕鶿 (zh), 鸬鹚 (zh) (lúcí)

• Cornish: morvran f
• Czech: kormorán m
• Danish: skarv (da) c, (great cormorant) storskarv c, ålekrage c
• Dutch: aalscholver (nl) m
• Faroese: skarvur m, (great cormorant) hiplingur m
• Finnish: merimetso (fi)
• French: cormoran (fr) m
• German: Kormoran (de) m
• Greek: κορμοράνος m (kormorános)
• Greenlandic: oqaatsoq (Phalacrocorax carbo)
• Hawaiian: kakalakeke
• Hungarian: kormorán (hu)
• Icelandic: skarfur m
• Irish: broigheall m, fiach mara m
• Italian: cormorano (it) m
• Japanese: 鵜 (ja) (う, u)

• Korean: 가마우지 (ko) (gamauji)
• Latin: phalacrocorax m
• Latvian: jūras krauklis m
• Macedonian: корморан m (kormorán)
• Manx: fannag varrey f, scarroo m, shag m, cormorant m, feeagh marrey m
• Mi'kmaq: mqatawapu anim
• Navajo: tónteel zhį́ʼii
• Norwegian: storskarv (no)
• Polish: kormoran (pl) m
• Portuguese: cormorão (pt) m, biguá m
• Romanian: cormoran (ro) m
• Russian: бакла́н (ru) m (baklán)
• Saanich: MÁŦEĆ
• Scottish Gaelic: sgarbh m, ballaire m, gairgeann m, ballaire-bòthain m
• Slovak: kormorán (sk) m
• Spanish: cormorán m
• Swedish: storskarv (sv)
• Tagalog: kasili, korbehon
• Telugu: నీరుకాకి (te) (nīrukāki), మద్గువు (te) (madguvu)
• Turkish: karabatak (tr)
• Ukrainian: баклан (uk) m (baklan)
• Welsh: mulfran f, morfran f

AdjectiveEdit

cormorant (comparative more cormorant, superlative most cormorant)

1. Ravenous, greedy.
   • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene 1

     Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,

     Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs,

     And then grace us in the disgrace of death;

     When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,

     The endeavour of this present breath may buy

     That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge,

     And make us heirs of all eternity.

See alsoEdit

• shag