papağan

Meaning

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.

Concepts

parrot

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popinjay

Synonyms

dudu kuşu

tuti

dudu

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Translations

perroquet

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Papagei

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pappagallo

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papegaai

🦜

papagaio

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loro

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psittacus

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παπαγάλος

papagayo

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lloro

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papagai

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papaxan

بَبَّغَاء

cotorra

Pronounced as (IPA)

[pʰɑ̽.pɑ̽.ˈɑ̽n]

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: پاپاغان

Cognate with English: 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.