papağan

Significat (Anglès)

1. parrot, popinjay, any kind of colorful bird of the order Psittaciformes
2. (figuratively) parrot, parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.

Conceptes

lloro

🦜

papagai

🦜

Sinònims

dudu kuşu

tuti

dudu

🦜

Traduccions

perroquet

🦜

parrot

🦜

Papagei

🦜

pappagallo

🦜

papegaai

🦜

papagaio

🦜

loro

🦜

παπαγάλος

psittacus

🦜

papagayo

🦜

cotorra

بَبَّغَاء

papaxan

بهبهغا

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[pʰɑ̽.pɑ̽.ˈɑ̽n]

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de turc otomà: پاپاغان

Cognat amb anglès: popinjay

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاپاغان (papağan), from Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ), a word of imitative origin. Compare English popinjay (archaic), Spanish papagayo, Italian pappagallo, Greek παπαγάλος (papagálos), etc. from the same Arabic root.