marabou

English

Wikispecies

Leptoptilos crumenifer

Alternative forms

• marabu, marabout

Etymology

From French marabou, an older spelling of marabout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹəbuː/

Noun

marabou (plural marabous)

1. Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.

   Synonyms: adjutant stork, marabou stork

2. (dated, US, Louisiana) A person having five-eighths black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
   • 1815, Mungo Park, The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa:

     Madimarian , a Marabou, killed me a bullock; I give him one bottle of powder.

3. (textiles) A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring.
4. A thin fabric made from this silk, as for scarves.

Translations

large wading bird native to Africa

• Afrikaans: maraboe
• Bulgarian: марабу n (marabu)
• Catalan: marabú m
• Czech: marabu m
• Dutch: maraboe (nl) m
• Finnish: afrikanmarabu (fi), marabu (fi)
• French: marabout (fr) m
• Galician: marabú (gl) m
• German: Marabu (de) m
• Italian: cicogna gozzuta f
• Luo: arum
• Polish: marabut (pl) m
• Portuguese: marabu m
• Romanian: marabu (ro) m
• Russian: марабу́ (ru) m (marabú), пти́ца-адъюта́нт f (ptíca-adʺjutánt)
• Spanish: marabú m