flamingo

See also: Flamingo and flamingó

English

A flamingo

Flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus) in flight

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Provençal flama (“flame”), from Latin flamma (“flame”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəʊ

Noun

flamingo (plural flamingos or flamingoes)

1. A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae.
2. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

   flamingo:  

Synonyms

• (bird): phenicopter

Translations

bird

• Afrikaans: flamink (af)
• Arabic: فْلَامِينْجُو‎ m (flamingo), بَشْرُوش‎ m (bašrūš), نُحَام‎ m (nuḥām)

  Egyptian Arabic: بَشَرَوْش‎ m (bašarōš)

  Hijazi Arabic: فلامنقو‎ m (flāmingo)

• Armenian: ֆլամինգո (hy) (flamingo)
• Assamese: ফ্লেমিংগ (phlemiṅgo)
• Asturian: flamencu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qızılqaz
• Belarusian: фламі́нга n (flamínha)
• Bulgarian: фламинго n (flamingo)
• Catalan: flamenc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅鸛, 红鹳 (hung⁴ gun³), 火烈鳥, 火烈鸟 (fo² lit⁶ niu⁵), 紅鶴, 红鹤 (hung⁴ hok^6-2)

  Mandarin: 火鶴 (zh), 火鹤 (zh) (huǒhè), 火烈鳥 (zh), 火烈鸟 (zh) (huǒlièniǎo), 紅鶴 (zh), 红鹤 (zh) (hónghè)

  Min Nan: 紅鶴, 红鹤 (âng-ho̍h)

• Czech: plameňák (cs) m
• Danish: flamingo c
• Dutch: flamingo (nl) m
• Esperanto: flamengo, fenikoptero
• Finnish: flamingo (fi)
• French: flamant (fr) m
• Galician: flamengo (gl) m
• German: Flamingo (de) m
• Greek: φοινικόπτερος (el) m (foinikópteros), φλαμίνγκο (el) n (flamíngko)
• Greenlandic: aapalualuk
• Hindi: दरियाई तोता m (dariyāī totā), बगहंस m (baghans), राजहंस (hi) m (rājhans), हंस (hi) m (hans)
• Hungarian: flamingó (hu)
• Icelandic: flamingói m, flæmingi (is) m
• Ido: flamingo (io)

• Indonesian: flamingo (id)
• Italian: fenicottero (it) m
• Japanese: フラミンゴ (ja) (furamingo), 紅鶴 (ja) (benizuru)
• Kalmyk: кизлһ (kizlh)
• Khakas: хысхылых (xısxılıx)
• Korean: 홍학(紅鶴) (ko) (honghak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سوورەقوڵِنگ‎ (sûrequlling), سوورەقورینگ‎ (sûrequrîng)

• Lithuanian: flamingas (lt)
• Low German: Flamingo m
• Malay: flamingo
• Navajo: tsídii jáádnézí
• Norwegian: flamingo (no) m
• Occitan: flamenc (oc) m
• Polish: flaming (pl) m, czerwonak (pl) m
• Portuguese: flamingo (pt) m
• Russian: флами́нго (ru) m (flamíngo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пламенац m

  Roman: plamenac (sh) m

• Sindhi: لاکيڄاڃي‎ (sd)
• Slovak: plameniak m
• Spanish: flamenco (es) m
• Swahili: heroe (sw)
• Swedish: flamingo (sv) c
• Tagalog: plamengko
• Tatar: кызылказ (qızılkaz)
• Turkish: allı turna, flamingo (tr)
• Ukrainian: фламі́нго (uk) m (flamínho), фламі́нґо m (flamíngo)
• Uzbek: qizilgʻoz
• Vietnamese: hồng hạc (vi) (紅鶴)
• Welsh: fflamingo m, fflamingos m pl
• Zulu: unondwebu 1a or 2a

colour

• Finnish: flamingonpunainen

• Ido: flamingea

Adjective

flamingo (not comparable)

1. Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

Translations

colour

• Ido: flamingea

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

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Danish

Noun

flamingo c (singular definite flamingoen, plural indefinite flamingoer)

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension

Declension of flamingo

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	flamingo	flamingoen	flamingoer	flamingoerne
genitive	flamingos	flamingoens	flamingoers	flamingoernes

References

• “flamingo” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo, from Old Occitan flamenc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌflaːˈmɪŋ.ɡoː/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingo's, diminutive flamingootje n)

1. flamingo, bird of the family Phoenicopteridae

   Synonym: zeegans

2. (Suriname) scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber

   Synonym: rode ibis

Descendants

• Afrikaans: flamink

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Esperanto

Etymology

flamo (“flame”) +‎ -ingo (“socket”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaˈminɡo/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go

Noun

flamingo (accusative singular flamingon, plural flamingoj, accusative plural flamingojn)

1. gas burner

See also

• flamengo (“flamingo”)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmiŋːo/, [ˈflɑmiŋːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmiŋːo
• Syllabification: fla‧min‧go

Noun

flamingo

1. flamingo
2. (specifically) greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Declension

Inflection of flamingo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		flamingo	flamingot
genitive		flamingon	flamingojen
partitive		flamingoa	flamingoja
illative		flamingoon	flamingoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		flamingo	flamingot
accusative	nom.	flamingo	flamingot
	gen.	flamingon
genitive		flamingon	flamingojen
partitive		flamingoa	flamingoja
inessive		flamingossa	flamingoissa
elative		flamingosta	flamingoista
illative		flamingoon	flamingoihin
adessive		flamingolla	flamingoilla
ablative		flamingolta	flamingoilta
allative		flamingolle	flamingoille
essive		flamingona	flamingoina
translative		flamingoksi	flamingoiksi
instructive		—	flamingoin
abessive		flamingotta	flamingoitta
comitative		—	flamingoineen

Possessive forms of flamingo (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	flamingoni	flamingomme
2nd person	flamingosi	flamingonne
3rd person	flamingonsa

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Malay

Noun

flamingo (plural flamingo-flamingo, informal 1st possessive flamingoku, impolite 2nd possessive flamingomu, 3rd possessive flamingonya)

1. flamingo

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo

Noun

flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoer, definite plural flamingoene)

1. a flamingo

References

• “flamingo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo

Noun

flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoar, definite plural flamingoane)

1. a flamingo

References

• “flamingo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

flamingos

Alternative forms

• flamengo

Etymology

Borrowed from English flamingo, from Portuguese and Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Old Occitan flamenc (“flame colored”), from Latin flamma (“flame”) (compare Portuguese chama, flama).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /flɐ.ˈmĩ.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingos)

1. flamingo (bird)

Related terms

• chama
• flamejante

See also

• flamengo

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• flaming (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Flamingo, from Spanish flamengo or Portuguese flamengo (“flame colored”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmin.ɡo/

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingi)

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension

Declension of flamingo

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) flamingo	flamingoul	(niște) flamingi	flamingii
genitive/dative	(unui) flamingo	flamingoului	(unor) flamingi	flamingilor
vocative	flamingoule		flamingilor

Declension of flamingo

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) flamingo	flamingul	(niște) flamingi	flamingii
genitive/dative	(unui) flamingo	flamingului	(unor) flamingi	flamingilor
vocative	flamingule		flamingilor

Derived terms

• flamingo andin
• flamingo chilian
• flamingo minor
• flamingo roz

Paronyms

• flamenco

See also

• fenicopteriform

References

• flamingo in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Spanish

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingos)

1. flamingo

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch flamingo. (The bird that in English is known as flamingo is known instead as segansi.)

Noun

flamingo

1. scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber

   Synonym: korikori

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Swedish

Noun

flamingo c

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension

Declension of flamingo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	flamingo	flamingon	flamingor	flamingorna
Genitive	flamingos	flamingons	flamingors	flamingornas