teal

See also: Teal, TEAl, and TEAL

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English

Anas crecca, the common teal

Alternative forms

• teale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English word *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling ("teal"; Modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

1. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
2. (countable and uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

   teal colour:  

Translations

duck

• Albanian: bajukë (sq)
• Basque: zertzeta
• Catalan: xarxet comú
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水鴨 (zh), 水鸭 (zh) (shuǐyā)

• Czech: čírka (cs)
• Dutch: taling (nl) m
• Esperanto: kreko (eo), krekanaso
• Finnish: tavi (fi)
• French: sarcelle (fr) f
• German: Krickente f, Kriekente f
• Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) f (agriópapia)
• Greenlandic: qeerlutoornaq
• Hungarian: réce (hu)
• Ido: sarcelo (io)
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Irish: praslacha f
• Italian: alzavola
• Japanese: 小鴨 (こがも, kogamo)

• Korean: 쇠오리 (soe-ori)
• Luxembourgish: Wanterint f
• Maori: tētē
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krikkand m, f

  Nynorsk: krikkand f

• Persian: خوتکا‎‎ (xutkâ)
• Portuguese: patinho m
• Romanian: lișiță (ro) f, sarselă f
• Russian: чиро́к (ru) m (čirók)
• Serbo-Croatian: kržulja (sh) f
• Spanish: cerceta f, barraquete m
• Swedish: kricka (sv) c
• Turkish: çakırkanat (tr)
• Venetian: sarsegna f
• Vietnamese: mòng két
• Volapük: krek
• Welsh: corhwyaden f, crach-hwyaden f

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍綠色, 蓝绿色 (lánlǜsè)

• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen n
• Finnish: (tumman) sinivihreä
• French: bleu sarcelle, bleu pétrole (fr)
• German: blaugrün (de), petrol
• Greek: βαθυκύανο n (vathykýano)
• Hungarian: kékeszöld (hu)
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Italian: blu petrolio, foglia di tè

• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Persian: سبز دودی‎‎ (sabz-e dudi)
• Polish: barwa morska n
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo (pt)
• Russian: зеленова́то-голубо́й (ru) m (zelenováto-golubój) (цвет), цвет морской волны (ru) m (cvet morskoj volny)
• Slovene: turkizna
• Spanish: azul petróleo m
• Swedish: teal
• Turkish: teal (tr), petrol yeşili, ördekbaşı (tr)
• Vietnamese: mòng két

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Persian: (1): مرغابی جره (morghabi-ye jarre), (2): سبزآبی (sabzabi)

• Serbo-Croatian: mala divlja patka f

Adjective

teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)

1. Having a bluish-green colour

Translations

colour

• Catalan: xarxet
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen, appelblauwzeegroene
• French: sarcelle (fr) m
• German: petrolblau
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Italian: foglia di tè

• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo (pt)
• Romanian: albastru-verzui
• Slovene: turkizen
• Spanish: azul petróleo
• Turkish: petrol yeşili, ördekbaşı (tr)

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, tela