Truthahn

Meaning

male turkey

Concepts

turkey

wild turkey

turkeys

turkey-cock

Meleagris

Synonyms

Puter

Pute

Truthuhn

🦃

Dummkopf

Truthenne

Trute

Indian

Kurrhahn

männliches Truthuhn

Truter

Wildtruthuhn

wildes Truthuhn

indisches Huhn

Pockerl

Welschhahn

betrunken

Bigauderer

Wildtruthahn

Meleagris

Putenfleisch

Kurre

Translations

pavo

🦃

tacchino

🦃

dindon

kalkoen

🦃

dinde

peru

hindi

🦃

guajolote

🦃

guanajo

🦃

γαλοπούλα

ديك رومي

🦃

gall dindi

🦃

διάνος

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

wältschhaan

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtʁuːtˌhaːn/

Etymology

From trut + Hahn (“rooster”). The first element is either imitative of the turkey’s call to its young (cf. the etymology of Pute) or alternatively from Middle Low German drōten (“threaten”), improperly adapted to High German, in reference to the male turkey’s seemingly aggressive behavior.