purple swamphen

English

purple swamp hen

Wikispecies

Noun

purple swamphen (plural purple swamphens)

1. Various species in the Porphyrio genus of the Rallidae family, including Porphyrio porphyrio, Porphyrio madagascariensis, Porphyrio poliocephalus, Porphyrio indicus, Porphyrio pulverulentus, and Porphyrio melanotus.

Synonyms

• African purple swamphen
• purple coot
• purple gallinule
• purple moorhen
• sultana bird

Translations

Porphyrio porphyrio

• Dutch: purperkoet (nl) m
• Esperanto: purpura porfirio
• Finnish: sulttaanikana (fi)
• French: poule sultane (fr) f, talève sultane (fr) f
• German: Purpurhuhn
• Greek:

  Ancient: πορφυρίων m (porphuríōn)

• Hungarian: kék fú
• Italian: pollo sultano m
• Latin: porphirio f
• Maori: pūkeko
• Norwegian: sultanhøne