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Etymology
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From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.
Pronunciation
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parakeet (plural parakeets)
- Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions. [from 16th c.]
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.
2009 October 12, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.
Usage notes
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The common parakeet kept as a pet is called the budgie or budgerigar in Commonwealth nations.
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Translations
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various species of small parrots
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: بَارَاكِيت m (bārākīt)
- Asturian: periquitu (ast)
- Burmese: ကျေး (my) (kye:), ကြက်တော (my) (kraktau:) (Alexandrine parakeet)
- Catalan: periquito m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 長尾鸚鵡/长尾鹦鹉 (zh) (chángwěi yīngwǔ)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: parkiet (nl)
- Esperanto: konuro
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: aratti (fi)
- French: perruche (fr)
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- German: Sittich (de) m
- Greek: παπαγαλίνα (papagalína)
- Hebrew: דְּרָרָה (he) f (drára)
- Hungarian: papagáj (hu)
- Ido: perucho (io)
- Irish: pearaicít f
- Italian: cocorita (it) f, pappagallino
- Japanese: 鸚哥 (ja) (いんこ, inko), インコ (ja) (inko)
- Korean: 잉꼬 (ingkko)
- Malay: nuri (ms)
- Maori: porete, torete, pōreterete, kawatere
- Navajo: tsídii yáłtiʼí yázhí
- Norman: pèrrotchet m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: parakitt m
- Nynorsk: parakitt m
- Polish: papużka (pl) f
- Portuguese: periquito (pt) m
- Romanian: peruș (ro) m
- Russian: длиннохво́стый попуга́й m (dlinnoxvóstyj popugáj), попуга́й (ru) m (popugáj), попуга́йчик (ru) m (popugájčik)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: papagajik m
- Spanish: perico (es) m
- Swedish: parakit (sv) c
- Turkish: muhabbetkuşu
- Uzbek: toʻtiqush (uz)
- Vietnamese: vẹt (vi), két (vi)
- Welsh: paracît m
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