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English
American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber )
Flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus ) in flight
Etymology
From Portuguese flamengo ( “ flamingo ” ) and Spanish flamenco ( “ flamingo ” ) , which were adapted from Catalan flamenc ( “ flamingo ” ) , of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming ); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant ( “ flamingo ” ) .
The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking". )
Alternatively, either the dance flamenco , the bird name or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma ( “ flame ” ) : i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama ( “ flame ” ) + -enc . Compare also Portuguese -engo .
Pronunciation
Noun
flamingo (countable and uncountable , plural flamingos or flamingoes )
( countable ) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes .
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine , page 266 :After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos , and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.
A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
flamingo:
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bird
Afrikaans: flamink (af)
Arabic: فْلَامِينْجُو m ( flamingo ) , بَشْرُوش m ( bašrūš ) , نُحَام m ( nuḥām )
Egyptian Arabic: بَشَرَوْش m ( bašarōš )
Gulf Arabic: فلامنقو m ( flamingu, flāmingu )
Hijazi Arabic: فلامنقو m ( flāmingo )
Armenian: ֆլամինգո (hy) ( flamingo )
Assamese: ফ্লেমিংগ ( phlemiṅgo )
Asturian: flamencu (ast) m
Aymara: parina
Azerbaijani: qızılqaz
Belarusian: фламі́нга m ( flamínha )
Bulgarian: фламинго n ( flamingo )
Catalan: flamenc (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 紅鸛 / 红鹳 ( hung4 gun3 ) , 火烈鳥 / 火烈鸟 ( fo2 lit6 niu5 ) , 紅鶴 / 红鹤 ( hung4 hok6-2 )
Hokkien: 紅鶴 / 红鹤 ( âng-ho̍h )
Mandarin: 火鶴 / 火鹤 (zh) ( huǒhè ) , 火烈鳥 / 火烈鸟 (zh) ( huǒlièniǎo ) , 紅鶴 / 红鹤 (zh) ( hónghè )
Czech: plameňák (cs) m
Danish: flamingo c
Dutch: flamingo (nl) m
Esperanto: flamengo , fenikoptero
Estonian: flamingo (et)
Faroese: flæmingur m
Finnish: flamingo (fi)
French: flamant (fr) m , phénicoptère (fr)
Galician: flamengo (gl) m
Georgian: ფლამინგო (ka) ( plamingo )
German: Flamingo (de) m
Greek: φοινικόπτερος (el) m ( foinikópteros ) , φλαμίνγκο (el) n ( flamíngko )
Greenlandic: aapalualuk
Hindi: राजहंस (hi) m ( rājhans )
Hungarian: flamingó (hu)
Icelandic: flamingói m , flæmingi (is) m
Ido: flamingo (io)
Indonesian: flamingo (id)
Italian: fenicottero (it) m
Japanese: フラミンゴ (ja) ( furamingo ) , 紅鶴 (ja) ( benizuru )
Kalmyk: кизлһ ( kizlğ )
Kazakh: қоқиқаз ( qoqiqaz )
Khakas: хысхылых ( xısxılıx )
Korean: 플라밍고 ( peullaminggo ) , 홍학(紅鶴) (ko) ( honghak )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سوورەقوڵِنگ ( sûrequlling ) , سوورەقورینگ ( sûrequrîng )
Latin: phoenicopterus m
Lithuanian: flamingas (lt)
Low German: Flamingo m
Malay: flamingo
Mapudungun: pital
Navajo: tsídii jáádnézí
Norwegian: flamingo (no) m
Occitan: flamenc (oc) m
Persian: فلامینگو ( felâmingo )
Polish: flaming (pl) m , czerwonak (pl) m
Portuguese: flamingo (pt) m
Quechua: pariwana
Romanian: flamingo (ro) m
Russian: флами́нго (ru) m ( flamíngo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пламенац m
Roman: plamenac (sh) m
Sindhi: لاکيڄاڃي (sd)
Slovak: plameniak m
Spanish: flamenco (es) m
Swahili: heroe (sw)
Swedish: flamingo (sv) c
Tagalog: plamengko
Tatar: кызылказ ( qızılkaz )
Turkish: allı turna , flamingo (tr) , Flaman kuşu (tr)
Ukrainian: фламі́нго (uk) m ( flamínho ) , фламі́нґо m ( flamíngo )
Uzbek: qizilgʻoz
Vietnamese: hồng hạc (vi) (紅鶴 )
Welsh: fflamingo m , fflamingos m pl
Yiddish: פֿלאַמינגאָ m ( flamingo )
Zulu: unondwebu class 1a /2a
Adjective
flamingo (not comparable )
Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
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References
^ Germà Colón (2004 ) “Flamenc, flamenco, flamingo : "phoenicopterus ruber"”, in Revue de linguistique romane , volume 68
^ Stewart Edelstein (2002 ) “Unlikely Word Pairs: A Sampling of Dubious Dublets”, in Oberlin Alumni Magazine , volume 98 , number 1
^ Colón 2004, page 323
^ “flamenco ”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10
^ William Sayers (2007 ) “Spanish Flamenco : origin, loan translation, and in- and out-group evolution (Romani, Caló, Castilian)”, in Romance Notes , volume 48 , number 1, page 14
Danish
Noun
flamingo c (singular definite flamingoen , plural indefinite flamingoer )
flamingo ( bird )
( uncountable ) styrofoam
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese flamingo , from Spanish flamengo , from Old Occitan flamenc , which derives either from Latin flamma ( “ flame ” ) , after the color of its plumage, or (less likely) from Middle Dutch vlaminc , after their ruddy skin color (compare Spanish flamenco ).
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˌflaːˈmɪŋ.ɡoː/
Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingo's , diminutive flamingootje n )
a flamingo , bird of the family Phoenicopteridae
Synonym: zeegans
( particularly ) the greater flamingo , Phoenicopterus roseus
Synonyms: Europese flamingo , grote flamingo
( Suriname ) synonym of rode ibis
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Esperanto
Etymology
flamo ( “ flame ” ) + -ingo ( “ socket ” )
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /flaˈminɡo/ Rhymes: -inɡo Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go
Noun
flamingo (accusative singular flamingon , plural flamingoj , accusative plural flamingojn )
gas burner
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Finnish
Etymology
From English flamingo , from Spanish flamengo .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈflɑmiŋːo/ ,
Rhymes: -ɑmiŋːo
Syllabification(key ) : fla‧min‧go
Hyphenation(key ) : fla‧min‧go
Noun
flamingo
flamingo
( specifically ) greater flamingo ( Phoenicopterus roseus )
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Indonesian
Noun
flamingo (plural flamingo -flamingo )
flamingo
Malay
Noun
flamingo (plural flamingo -flamingo )
flamingo
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Portuguese flamingo .
Noun
flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen , indefinite plural flamingoer , definite plural flamingoene )
a flamingo
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Portuguese flamingo .
Noun
flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen , indefinite plural flamingoar , definite plural flamingoane )
a flamingo
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Portuguese
Flamingos
Etymology
Borrowed from English flamingo , from Portuguese and Spanish flamengo ( “ flame colored ” ) , from Old Occitan flamenc ( “ flame colored ” ) , from Latin flamma ( “ flame ” ) (compare Portuguese chama , flama ).
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: fla‧min‧go
Rhymes: -ĩɡu
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingos )
flamingo ( bird )
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Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Flamingo , from Spanish flamengo or Portuguese flamengo ( “ flame colored ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingi )
flamingo ( bird )
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Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /flaˈminɡo/
Rhymes: -inɡo
Syllabification: fla‧min‧go
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingos )
flamingo
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch flamingo . (The bird that in English is known as flamingo is known instead as segansi .)
Noun
flamingo
scarlet ibis , Eudocimus ruber
Synonym: korikori
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English flamingo .
Pronunciation
Noun
flamingo class ? (plural )
flamingo
Synonym: heroe
2012 February 5, “Utaliana yapata homa ya West Nile”, in BBC News Swahili :Wingu la flamingo , au heroe, huvutia maelfu ya watu kila mwaka, watu wanaopenda kuwatazama kwenye kisiwa cha Sardinia, magharibi mwa Utaliana. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Swedish
en rosa, vadande flamingo
Noun
flamingo c
flamingo ( bird )
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