cuckoo

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EtymologyEdit

From Old French cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately either onomatopoeic, or from Latin cuculus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊkuː/ or IPA^(key): /ˈkuːkuː/

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AdjectiveEdit

cuckoo ‎(comparative more cuckoo, superlative most cuckoo)

1. Crazy; not sane.

NounEdit

cuckoo ‎(plural cuckoos)

1. Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call.
2. The sound of that particular bird.
3. The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
4. Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
5. Someone who is crazy.

Related termsEdit

• cuckoo clock
• cuckoo dove
• cuckoo shrike
• cuckoo's egg
• cloud-cuckoo-land
• cuculine (rare)
• cuckoo sign

TranslationsEdit

the bird

• Albanian: qyqe (sq) f
• Arabic: وَقْوَاق m ‎(waqwāq)
• Armenian: կկու (hy) ‎(kku)
• Asturian: cucu m
• Bashkir: кәкүк ‎(käkük)
• Basque: kuku
• Belarusian: зязю́ля ‎(zjazjúlja)
• Breton: koukoug (br)
• Bulgarian: кукуви́ца f ‎(kukuvíca)
• Catalan: cucut m
• Chechen: оттйокх ‎(ottjoq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杜鵑 (zh), 杜鹃 (zh) ‎(dùjuān), 布穀鳥 (zh), 布谷鸟 (zh) ‎(bùgǔniǎo)

• Cornish: koukou f
• Czech: kukačka (cs) f
• Danish: gøg (da) c
• Dutch: koekoek (nl) m
• Esperanto: kukolo
• Estonian: kägu (et)
• Faroese: geykur m
• Finnish: käki (fi)
• French: coucou (fr) m
• Friulian: cuc, cuců, cucuc
• Galician: cuco m
• Georgian: გუგული ‎(guguli)
• German: Kuckuck (de) m
• Greek: κούκος (el) ‎(koúkos)
• Hebrew: קוּקִיָה f ‎(kukiyá)
• Hindi: कोयल (hi) f ‎(koyal), कोकिला (hi) m ‎(kokilā)
• Hungarian: kakukk (hu)
• Icelandic: gaukur (is) m
• Ido: kukulo (io)
• Inari Sami: kiehâ
• Irish: cuach f
• Italian: cuculo (it) m, cucù (it) m
• Japanese: 郭公 (ja) ‎(かっこう, kakkō), カッコウ ‎(kakkō)
• Maori: kokoea
• Norman: coucou m
• Karakalpak: a'tsho'k
• Kazakh: көкек (kk) ‎(kökek)
• Khakas: кӧӧк ‎(kӧӧk)
• Korean: 뻐꾸기 ‎(ppeokkugi), 두견새 ‎(dugyeonsae)
• Ladin: cuch
• Latgalian: dzagiuze
• Latin: cuculus m
• Latvian: dzeguze (lv) f
• Lithuanian: gegutė (lt) f
• Livonian: keg, kukūlind
• Low German: Kuukuuk (nds) m, kukuuk m
• Lower Sorbian: kukawa
• Lule Sami: giehka, ránatjalådde

• Luxembourgish: Guckuck m
• Macedonian: кука́вица f ‎(kukávica)
• Maltese: daqquqa kaħla f
• Manx: cooag f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjøk m

  Nynorsk: gauk m

• Occitan: coguol (oc) m, coguou (oc) m, cocut (oc) m
• Old English: ġēac m
• Old Norse: gaukr m
• Persian: کوکو (fa) ‎(kuku)
• Polish: kukułka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cuco (pt) m
• Romani: kukuriezo m, chuhuriezo m, kukuriashka f, chuhuriashka f
• Romanian: cuc (ro)
• Romansch: cucu
• Russian: куку́шка (ru) f ‎(kukúška)
• Sami: giehka
• Sardinian: cucu, cucui, cucuperra, cucuperrai, cucuevvai, cucumarei
• Scottish Gaelic: cuthag f, cuach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кукавица f

  Roman: kukavica (sh) f

• Shor: кӧӧк ‎(köök)
• Skolt Sami: ǩiõkk
• Slovak: kukučka (sk) f
• Slovene: kukavica (sl) f
• Southern Sami: gïege
• Spanish: cuco (es) m, cuclillo (es) m
• Swahili: kekeo
• Swedish: gök (sv) c
• Tagalog: kakok
• Tajik: фохтак ‎(foxtak), куку ‎(kuku), олучахӯрак ‎(olučaxürak)
• Tamil: குயில் (ta) ‎(kuyil)
• Telugu: కోకిల (te) ‎(kōkila)
• Turkish: guguk (tr)
• Turkmen: ikatäk
• Ukrainian: зозу́ля f ‎(zozúlja)
• Upper Sorbian: kokula
• Urdu: کویل f ‎(koyal)
• Uzbek: kakkuqush, kakku (uz)
• Veps: kägi
• Vietnamese: chim cu, họ cu cu
• Volapük: kukuk (vo)
• Võro: kägo
• Welsh: cog, cogau f pl
• West Frisian: koekoek (fy)
• Yakut: кэҕэ ‎(keğe)
• Yiddish: קוקו ‎(kuku)

the sound

• Bulgarian: кукане n ‎(kukane)
• Finnish: kukunta (fi), kukkuu (fi)
• Hungarian: kakukk (hu)
• Italian: cu cu
• Latgalian: kiukuot

• Latvian: kūkot
• Lithuanian: kukuoti
• Macedonian: ку-ку ‎(ku-ku)
• Swedish: kucku (sv)

someone crazy

• Bulgarian: чалнат (bg) m ‎(čalnat)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂者

• Japanese: 風狂の人 ‎(fūkyōnohito)
• Russian: ку-ку́ (ru) ‎(ku-kú)

VerbEdit

cuckoo ‎(third-person singular simple present cuckoos, present participle cuckooing, simple past and past participle cuckooed)

1. To make the call of a cuckoo
2. To repeat something incessantly

TranslationsEdit

to make the call of a cuckoo

• Bulgarian: кукам ‎(kukam)
• Finnish: kukkua (fi)
• Hungarian: kakukkol

• Macedonian: кука ‎(kuka)
• Maori: kūī
• Polish: kukać (pl) impf

to repeat something incessantly

• Bulgarian: повтарям монотонно ‎(povtarjam monotonno)
• Finnish: hokea (fi)

• Macedonian: вергла ‎(vergla)
• Polish: gęgać (pl) impf