teal

See also: Teal, TEAl, and TEAL

English

Anas crecca, the common teal

Alternative forms

• teale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling ("teal"; Modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. 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

• IPA^(key): /tiːl/, [tiːɫ]

• Audio (Southern England)

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• 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.

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Translations

duck

• Arabic: شرشير‎ (šaršīr)
• Albanian: bajukë (sq)
• Basque: zertzeta
• Bulgarian: примкар m (primkar)
• 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
• Georgian: იხვინჯა (ixvinǯa)
• German: Krickente f, Kriekente f
• Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) f (agriópapia)

  Ancient Greek: κέρκηρις m (kérkēris)

• Greenlandic: qeerlutoornaq
• Hungarian: réce (hu)
• Ido: sarcelo (io)
• Indonesian: itik (id)
• Irish: praslacha f
• Italian: alzavola (it)
• Japanese: 小鴨 (ja) (こがも, kogamo)

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

  Bokmål: krikkand m or f

  Nynorsk: krikkand f

• Persian: خوتکا‎ (xutkâ)
• Polish: cyraneczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: patinho m, marrequinha f, cerceta f
• 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

• Arabic: شرشيري‎ (šaršīriyy)
• Catalan: xarxet (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍綠色, 蓝绿色 (lánlǜsè)

• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen (nl) n
• Esperanto: verdbluo
• Finnish: tumman sinivihreä, sinivihreä (fi)
• French: bleu sarcelle, bleu canard (fr)
• Georgian: ფირუზისფერი (piruzisperi)
• German: blaugrün (de), petrol
• Greek: βαθυκύανο n (vathykýano)
• Hebrew: טוּרְקִיז‎ (he) (turqíz)
• 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)
• Romanian: albastru petrol n
• 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: ^{(please verify)} مرغابی جره (morghabi-ye jarre)‎ (1), ^{(please verify)} سبزآبی (sabzabi)‎ (2)

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} mala divlja patka f

Adjective

teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)

1. Having a bluish-green colour

Translations

colour

• Bulgarian: синьо-зелен (sinjo-zelen)
• Catalan: xarxet (ca)
• Danish: petroleumsblå
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen (nl), appelblauwzeegroene (nl)
• Esperanto: verdblua
• French: sarcelle (fr) m
• Georgian: ფირუზისფერი (piruzisperi)
• German: petrolblau, petrol
• Indonesian: itik (id)

• Italian: foglia di tè
• Maori: kārikiōrangi
• Polish: morski (pl)
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo (pt)
• Romanian: albastru-verzui, albastru petrol
• 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, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, 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 ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)

white	gray, grey	black
red; crimson	orange; brown	yellow; cream
lime, lime green	green	mint
cyan; teal	azure, sky blue	blue
violet; indigo	magenta; purple	pink

Anagrams

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