chaffinch

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• /ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/
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From Middle English chaffynch, chaffynche, caffynche, equivalent to chaff + finch. However, more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cæfed (“ornamented”) and cæfing (“hair-ornament”), thus meaning "ornamented finch, colourful finch".

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: borës — bird
• Albanian: avdosë — bird
• Albanian: borak — bird
• Albanian: zborak — bird
• Albanian: fink — bird
• Armenian: ամուրիկ (amurik) — bird
• Asturian: pimpín — bird
• Asturian: gurrión pintu — bird
• Breton: pint — bird
• Breton: pint kabell louet — bird
• Bulgarian: сипка (sipka) — bird
• Catalan: pinsà — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 蒼頭燕雀 /苍头燕雀 (cāngtóu yànquè) — bird
• Czech: pěnkava — bird
• Danish: bogfinke — bird
• Dutch: vink — bird
• Dutch: boekvink — bird
• Esperanto: fringo — bird
• Faroese: bókígða — bird
• Finnish: peippo — bird
• French: pinson — bird
• French: pinson des arbres — bird
• Galician: pimpín — bird
• Georgian: ნიბლია (niblia) — bird
• Georgian: სკვინჩა (sḳvinča) — bird
• Georgian: ნარჩიტა (narčiṭa) — bird
• German: Buchfink — bird
• Ancient Greek: σπίζα (spíza) — bird
• Ancient Greek: σπίνος (spínos) — bird
• Hungarian: erdei pinty — bird
• Icelandic: bókfinka — bird
• Irish: rí rua — bird
• Italian: fringuello — bird
• Japanese: 頭青花鶏 (zuao atori) — bird
• Korean: 푸른머리되새 (pureunmeoridoesae) — bird
• Latgalian: žubeite — bird
• Latvian: žubīte — bird
• Lithuanian: kikilis — bird
• Luxembourgish: Poufank — bird
• Macedonian: сне́гар (snégar) — bird
• Macedonian: си́пка (sípka) — bird
• Māori: pahirini — bird
• Norman: rossîngno — bird
• Norwegian: bokfink — bird
• Occitan: pinçard — bird
• Occitan: pinçan — bird
• Occitan: pinçon — bird
• Occitan: quinçon — bird
• Polish: zięba — bird
• Portuguese: tentilhão — bird
• Portuguese: chupim — bird
• Romanian: cinteză — bird
• Russian: зя́блик (zjáblik) — bird
• Northern Sami: beibboš — bird
• Scots: shilfa — bird
• Scots: sheely — bird
• Scots: shilfie — bird
• Scots: shillie — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: breacan-beithe — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: zeba — bird
• Slovak: pinka — bird
• Spanish: pinzón vulgar — bird
• Swedish: bofink — bird
• Turkish: ispinoz — bird
• Ukrainian: зя́блик (zjáblyk) — bird
• Welsh: asgell fraith — bird