finch

See also: Finch

English

A finch, Fringilla coelebs

Etymology

From Middle English fynche, from Old English finċ, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪntʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

Noun

finch (plural finches)

1. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Derived terms

• bullfinch
• chaffinch
• crimson-winged finch
• desert finch
• goldfinch
• gold-naped finch
• greenfinch
• hawfinch
• mountain finch
• oriole finch
• red-browed finch
• rosefinch
• scarlet finch
• spectacled finch
• trumpeter finch

 

Translations

any bird of the family Fringillidae

• Albanian: trishtil (sq)
• Arabic: شُرْشُور‎ m (šuršūr), بِرْقِش‎ m (birqiš)
• Belarusian: зя́блік m (zjáblik), берасця́нка f (bjerascjánka)
• Bulgarian: чи́нка (bg) f (čínka)
• Catalan: pinsà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燕雀 (zh) (yànquè), 雀 (zh) (què)

• Danish: finke c
• Dutch: vink (nl) m
• Esperanto: fringo
• Estonian: vint (et)
• Faroese: ígða f
• Finnish: peippo (fi)
• French: pinson (fr) m
• Gagauz: ispinoz
• Galician: pisco (gl) m, sentasín m, pimpín (gl) m, chinchón (gl) m, peu (gl) m, tinco m, trigau m, gamacho m, riorí m
• German: Fink (de) m
• Greek: σπίνος (el) m (spínos), σπίζα (el) f (spíza)

  Ancient: σπίνος m (spínos), σπίζα f (spíza)

• Hebrew: פרוש‎ (he)
• Hungarian: pinty (hu)
• Icelandic: finka (is) f
• Irish: glasán m
• Italian: fringuello (it), canarino (it), cardellino (it)
• Latin: fringilla f

• Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m
• Low German: Fink m
• Manx: corkan m
• Middle English: fynche
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fink (no) m, finke (no) m

  Nynorsk: fink m

• Occitan: quinçard m, pinçard (oc) m, pinçan m
• Old English: finċ m
• Persian: سهره‎ (fa) (sehre), فنچ‎ (fa) (fenč), ونج‎ (fa) (venj) (archaic)
• Polish: zięba (pl) f, ziarnojad m
• Portuguese: fringilídeo (pt) m
• Romanian: cinteză (ro) f, fringilidă f, fringilid (ro) n
• Russian: зя́блик (ru) m (zjáblik)
• Slovak: pinka f
• Slovene: ščinkavec (sl) m
• Spanish: pinzón m
• Swedish: fink (sv) c
• Tiwi: wutirri
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اسپنوز‎ (ispinoz)

  Modern Turkish: ispinoz (tr)

• Ukrainian: зя́блик m (zjáblyk)
• Venetian: finco (vec)
• Volapük: frin (vo)
• Welsh: pinc (cy) m or f, llinos f, pila m, pilaon m pl

See also

• brambling
• canary
• crossbill (Loxia spp.)
• redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
• serin
• siskin

Verb

finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

References

• finch at OneLook Dictionary Search
• finch in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

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Middle English

Noun

finch

1. Alternative form of fynche