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English
Etymology
From Old French plumage (14c.), itself from plume (“feather”) (from Latin plūma (“feather, down”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *plews- (“to pluck, a feather, fleece”) + -age.
Pronunciation
Noun
plumage (countable and uncountable, plural plumages)
- (ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.
- Synonym: (obsolete) pennage
- Finery or elaborate dress.
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Translations
collection of feathers covering a bird’s body
- Arabic: رَخْت m (raḵt)
- Bulgarian: перушина f (perušina), оперение n (operenie)
- Burmese: အမွေး (my) (a.mwe:)
- Catalan: plomatge m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羽毛 (zh) (yǔmáo)
- Czech: peří (cs) n
- Danish: fjerdragt c
- Dutch: pluimage (nl) f, gevederte (nl) n, verenkleed (nl) n
- Esperanto: plumaro
- Finnish: höyhenpeite (fi), höyhenet (fi), höyhenpuku (fi)
- French: plumage (fr) m, plume (fr) f (pars pro toto), plumée (fr) f, pennage (fr) m (falconry)
- Galician: plumaxe (gl) f
- German: Gefieder (de) n, Vogelgefieder n, Federkleid (de) n, Federschmuck (de) m
- Greek: φτέρωμα (el) n (ftéroma)
- Hungarian: toll (hu), tollazat (hu)
- Icelandic: fjaðrir f pl, fjaðraskraut n
- Ido: plumaro (io)
- Irish: cluimhreach f, clúmh m
- Italian: piumaggio (it) m, piume (it) f pl
- Japanese: 羽毛 (ja) (うもう, umō)
- Korean: 깃털 (ko) (git'teol)
- Macedonian: перје n (perje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fjærdrakt m or f, fjørdrakt m or f, fjærham m, fjørham m
- Nynorsk: fjørdrakt f, fjørham m
- Ottoman Turkish: ریش (riş)
- Polish: pierze (pl) n
- Portuguese: plumagem (pt) f
- Russian: опере́ние (ru) n (operénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пе̑рје n
- Roman: pȇrje (sh) n
- Spanish: plumaje (es) m
- Swedish: fjäderdräkt (sv) c
- Volapük: plümem (vo), bödaplümem, penaklot
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finery or elaborate dress
French
Pronunciation
Noun
plumage m (plural plumages)
- (ornithology, collective noun) plumage (a bird's feathers, collectively speaking)
- Synonyms: (falconry) pennage, plumée
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