fowl

Meaning

Noun

1. A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
2. (archaic) Any bird.

Verb

To hunt fowl.

Adj

foul

Synonyms

chicken

🐔

poultry

bird

🐦

hen

🐔

cock

domestic fowl

birds

chook

pullets

living creatures

gallinaceous bird

common scrub hen

game

life

wild

wildfowl

gallinacean

game bird

bird meat

Translations

ave

🐦

volaille

Geflügel

oiseau

🐦

poule

🐔

ave

🐦

πουλερικό

gevogelte

au

pollo

🐔

πουλί

Huhn

🐔

pollame

hoen

avis

🐦

Pronounced as (IPA)

/faʊl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: foul

Inherited from Old English: fugol

Cognate with Old English: flugol

Cognate with Western Frisian: fûgel

Cognate with Low German: Vagel

Cognate with Dutch: vogel

Cognate with German: Vogel

Cognate with Swedish: fågel

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: fugl

In summary

From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish and Norwegian fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.