parakeet

English

A rose-ringed parakeet

Alternative forms

• paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet, perokito

Etymology

From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɹəkiːt/, /paɹəˈkiːt/

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Noun

parakeet (plural parakeets)

1. 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 946730821:

     we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.

   • 2009, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 12 Oct 2009:

     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

The common parakeet kept as a pet is called the budgie or budgerigar in Commonwealth nations.

Translations

various species of small parrots

• Arabic: بَارَاكِيت‎ m (bārākīt)
• Catalan: periquito m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長尾鸚鵡 (zh), 长尾鹦鹉 (zh) (chángwěi yīngwǔ)

• Dutch: parkiet (nl)
• Esperanto: konuro
• Finnish: aratti
• French: perruche (fr)
• German: Sittich (de) m
• Greek: παπαγαλίνα (papagalína)
• Hebrew: דְּרָרָה‎ (he) f (drára)
• Hungarian: papagáj (hu)
• Ido: perucho (io)
• 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)
• Spanish: perico (es) m
• Swedish: parakit (sv) c
• Turkish: muhabbetkuşu
• Uzbek: toʻtiqush (uz)
• Vietnamese: vẹt (vi), két (vi)

See also

• parakeet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia