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chicken

adj · name · noun · verb · 20 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: chĭk'ĭn
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/
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  • Received-Pronunciation: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, General-American: /ˈt͡ʃɪkən/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪkɪn
  • rhymes with -ɪkən
  • CMU ARPABET: CH IH1 K AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Cowardly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, informal, sometimes

Examples

  • Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: backboneless, base, bitch-ass, boneless, caitiff, candy-assed, chicken, chicken-hearted, chicken-livered, chickenshit, courageless, cowardish, cowardly, cowardy, cowhearted, cowish, craven, cravenhearted, cringey, dastard, dastardly, dickless, dough-faced, fainthearted, fearful, fraidy, gizzardless, heartless, invalorous, invertebrate, gutless, hen-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, liver-faced, liver-hearted, low-hearted, miching, milky, milk-livered, mouse-hearted, mousy, nerveless, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, nutless, pigeon-livered, poltroonish, poor-spirited, punk, pusillanimous, pussylike, ratlike, rabbit-hearted, recrayed, retromingent, sissy, spineless, timid, timorous, unhearty, weak-kneed, white-hearted, white-livered, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied, afeared, afraid, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, creeped out, frightened, frit, horrified, mortified, panicked, scared, shocked, startled, terrified, worried, wary

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A census-designated place in Alaska.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • backyard chickens
  • barnyard chickens

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: poultry, bird, animal, creature, critter

4

noun

Meaning 4

The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • boneless chicken
  • tastes like chicken

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The young of any bird; a chick.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A coward.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes

Examples

  • (More commonly used as an adjective with this sense; see below.)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pullet, bottler, caitiff, candy-ass, candy-arse, coistril, coward, chicken, chicken liver, chickenshit, cocktail, cowardy custard, craven, dog, fraidy cat, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jessie, lizard, milquetoast, nancy, niddering, nidering, nidget, niding, nithing, piece of crap, piece of shit, pisspants, poltroon, punk, pussy, pussyhole, quiche-eater, quakebreech, quakebuttock, recreant, scaredy cat, scaredy pants, shithouse, sissy, slag, sluggard, snool, sook, weak sister, wheyface, yellow belly, yellow back

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A young or inexperienced person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Polari, countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: twink

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The game of dare.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: game of chicken

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

The game of dare.

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: game of chicken

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: preceded by definite article

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A kilogram of cocaine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bird, brick

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

A small pewter pot used in a tavern.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

plural of chick

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, dialectal, form-of, obsolete, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

adjective satellite

Meaning 16

easily frightened

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Gallus gallus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: domestic fowl, fowl, poultry

Narrower terms: chick, biddy, cock, rooster, capon, hen, spring chicken, Rhode Island red, Dominique, Dominick, Orpington

18

noun

Meaning 18

a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: contest, competition

19

noun

Meaning 19

the flesh of a chicken used for food

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: poulet, volaille

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: poultry

Narrower terms: broiler, capon, fryer, frier, pullet, roaster, spatchcock, hen

20

noun

Meaning 20

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wimp, crybaby

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: weakling, doormat, wuss

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *keukô Proto-Germanic *kukkaz Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn? Proto-Germanic *kukkīną? Old English ċicen Middle English chiken English chicken From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en. Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).

Chosen instead of ptarmigan (a common local bird) because of a dispute over the correct spelling.

From chick + -en (plural ending).

Shortening of chicken out.

Across languages

Translations

596 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abaza: квтӏу (kwtʼu) — bird
  • Abkhaz: а-куты (a-kʼutʼə) — bird
  • Acehnese: manok — bird
  • Afrikaans: hoender — bird
  • Afrikaans: haan — bird
  • Afrikaans: hen — bird
  • Ahom: 𑜀𑜩 (kay) — bird
  • Ahom: 𑜃𑜤𑜀𑜫 𑜀𑜩 (nuk kay) — bird
  • Akan: akokɔ — bird
  • Aklanon: manok — bird
  • Alabama: akaaka — bird
  • Albanian: pulë — bird
  • Southern Altai: таак (taak) — bird
  • Southern Altai: куштыҥ балазы (kuštïŋ balazï) — bird
  • Ambonese Malay: ayam — bird
  • Amharic: ዶሮ (doro) — bird
  • Arabic: دَجَاجَة (dajāja) — bird
  • Arabic: فرخة (farḵa) — bird
  • Arabic: دياي — bird
  • Arabic: دجاجة (dujāja) — bird
  • Sudanese Arabic: جدادة (jidāda) — bird
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܬܲܝܬܵܐ (ktayta) — bird
  • Aramaic: ܬܪܢܓܘܠܬܐ (tarnāḡultā) — bird
  • Argobba: ዶሮ (doro) — bird
  • Armenian: հավ (hav) — bird
  • Armenian: աքլոր (akʻlor) — bird
  • Armenian: ճուտ (čut) — bird
  • Assamese: কুকুৰা (kukura) — bird
  • Asturian: pollu — bird
  • Atayal: ngta — bird
  • Avar: гӏанкӏу (ʻankʼu) — bird
  • Aymara: chiwchi — bird
  • Azerbaijani: toyuq — bird
  • Bahnar: iĕr — bird
  • West Coast Bajau: manuk — bird
  • Balinese: ayam — bird
  • Balinese: siap — bird
  • Bashkir: тауыҡ (tawıq) — bird
  • Basque: oilasko — bird
  • Basque: oilo — bird
  • Bats: ქოთამ (kotam) — bird
  • Belarusian: птушаня́ (ptušanjá) — bird
  • Belarusian: птушанё (ptušanjó) — bird
  • Belarusian: ку́рыца (kúryca) — bird
  • Belarusian: кураня́ (kuranjá) — bird
  • Belarusian: куранё (kuranjó) — bird
  • Bengali: মুরগি (murgi) — bird
  • Bengali: মুরগী (murgi) — bird
  • Bengali: মুর্গি (murgi) — bird
  • Bengali: মুর্গী (murgi) — bird
  • Bezhta: гуьдаь (güdä) — bird
  • Central Bikol: manok — bird
  • Borôro: kagariga — bird
  • Bouyei: duezgais — bird
  • Bouyei: gais — bird
  • Breton: yar — bird
  • Breton: penn yar — bird
  • Bulgarian: кокошка (kokoška) — bird
  • Bulgarian: петел (petel) — bird
  • Bulgarian: пиле — bird
  • Bulgarian: ярка (jarka) — bird
  • Burmese: ကြက် (krak) — bird
  • Buryat: тахяа (taxjaa) — bird
  • Caijia: kɪ33 — bird
  • Carpathian Rusyn: курка (kurka) — bird
  • Catalan: pollastre — bird
  • Catalan: pollet — bird
  • Catalan: poll — bird
  • Catawba: watka — bird
  • Cebuano: manok — bird
  • Western Cham: منوء — bird
  • Chamicuro: polyo — bird
  • Chechen: котам (kotam) — bird
  • Cherokee: ᏥᏔᎦ (tsitaga) — bird
  • Cherokee: ᏥᏓᎦ (tsidaga) — bird
  • Cherokee: ᏣᏔᎦ (tsataga) — bird
  • Cheyenne: kokėhéaxa — bird
  • Chichewa: nkhuku — bird
  • Chickasaw: akanka' — bird
  • Khumi Chin: ae — bird
  • Tedim Chin: aak — bird
  • Chinese Cantonese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (gai1) — bird
  • Chinese: җи (ji) — bird
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (giĕ) — bird
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 雞囝 /鷄囝 /鸡囝 (giĕ-giāng) — bird
  • Gan Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (ji1) — bird
  • Hakka Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (gê1) — bird
  • Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (koe, ke, kere) — bird
  • Chinese: 雞仔 /鷄仔 /鸡仔 (koe-á, ke-á) — bird
  • Jin Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (ji1) — bird
  • Jin Chinese: 雞兒 /鷄兒 /鸡儿 (ji1 er1) — bird
  • Chinese Mandarin: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (jī) — bird
  • Northern Min Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (gái) — bird
  • Wu Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 — bird
  • Xiang Chinese: 雞 /鷄 /鸡 (ji1) — bird
  • Chukchi: ярагатԓе (jaragatḷe) — bird
  • East Circassian: джэд (džɛd) — bird
  • West Circassian: чэты (čɛtə) — bird
  • West Circassian: кьэт (kjɛt) — bird
  • Ngazidja Comorian: nkuhu — bird
  • Coptic: ⲉⲣϫ (erj) — bird
  • Cornish: yar — bird
  • Crimean Tatar: tavuq — bird
  • Czech: slepice — bird
  • Czech: kur — bird
  • Czech: kuře — bird
  • Danish: kylling — bird
  • Danish: høne — bird
  • Daur: kakraa — bird
  • Dhivehi: ކުކުޅު (kukuḷu) — bird
  • Central Dusun: manuk — bird
  • Dutch: kip — bird
  • Dutch: hen — bird
  • Dutch: hoen — bird
  • Dzongkha: བྱམོ (byamo) — bird
  • Elfdalian: yöna — bird
  • Erzya: сараз (saraz) — bird
  • Esperanto: koko — bird
  • Estonian: kana — bird
  • Ewe: koklo — bird
  • Ewe: koklovi — bird
  • Faroese: høsn — bird
  • Faroese: høna — bird
  • Fijian: toa — bird
  • Finnish: kana — bird
  • French: poulet — bird
  • West-Frisian: hin — bird
  • Friulian: poleç — bird
  • Friulian: gjaline — bird
  • Galician: galo — bird
  • Galician: galiña — bird
  • Gamilaraay: baawul — bird
  • Ge'ez: ዶርሆ (dorho) — bird
  • Georgian: ქათამი (katami) — bird
  • German: Huhn — bird
  • German: Hähnchen — bird
  • German: Hühnchen — bird
  • German: Küchlein — bird
  • German: Hue — bird
  • German: Huen — bird
  • Greek: κοτόπουλο (kotópoulo) — bird
  • Greek: κότα (kóta) — bird
  • Ancient Greek: ἀλεκτοριδεύς (alektorideús) — bird
  • Greenlandic: marloraaq — bird
  • Paraguayan Guarani: ryguasu — bird
  • Paraguayan Guarani: kupyju — bird
  • Gujarati: કૂકડો (kūkḍo) — bird
  • Gujarati: મરઘો (margho) — bird
  • Gurani: کەرگ (kerg) — bird
  • Haitian Creole: poul — bird
  • Hausa: kaza — bird
  • Hawaiian: moa — bird
  • Hebrew: תַּרְנְגוֹל (tarn'gól) — bird
  • Hebrew: תרנגולת \ תַּרְנְגֹלֶת (tarnególet) — bird
  • Higaonon: manuk — bird
  • Hindi: मुर्ग़ा (murġā) — bird
  • Hindi: मुरगा (murgā) — bird
  • Hindi: मुर्ग़ (murġ) — bird
  • Hindi: कुक्कुट (kukkuṭ) — bird
  • White Hmong: qaib — bird
  • Hungarian: csirke — bird
  • Hunzib: гудо (gudo) — bird
  • Ibanag: manu — bird
  • Icelandic: hænsn — bird
  • Icelandic: kjúklingur — bird
  • Icelandic: hæna — bird
  • Ido: hano — bird
  • Ilocano: manok — bird
  • Indonesian: ayam — bird
  • Indonesian: manuk — bird
  • Ingush: котам (kotam) — bird
  • Inuktitut: ᐊ'ᐊ'ᐋᒃ (a'a'aak) — bird
  • Irish: eireog — bird
  • Irish: sicín — bird
  • Isan: กุฏโฏ (kut̩t̩o) — bird
  • Isan: ไก่ (kị̀) — bird
  • Istro-Romanian: puľ — bird
  • Italian: pollo — bird
  • Italian: gallo — bird
  • Italian: gallina — bird
  • Japanese: 鶏 — bird
  • Japanese: 臼辺鳥 (usubedori) — bird
  • Javanese: pitik — bird
  • Coastal Kadazan: manuk — bird
  • Ledo Kaili: manu — bird
  • Kannada: ಕೋಳಿ (kōḷi) — bird
  • Kapampangan: manuk — bird
  • Karakalpak: tawıqlar — bird
  • S'gaw Karen: ဆီ (hsaw) — bird
  • Kashubian: kùra — bird
  • Kazakh: тауық (tauyq) — bird
  • Khasi: syiar — bird
  • Khasi: s'iar — bird
  • Khmer: មាន់ (mŏən) — bird
  • Khün: ᨠᩱ᩵ — bird
  • Kikuyu: ngũkũ — bird
  • Kimaragang: manuk — bird
  • Kimaragang: piyak — bird
  • Kimaragang: punan — bird
  • Kiput: aan — bird
  • Komi-Permyak: курӧг (kurög) — bird
  • Konkani: कुंकड (kuṅkaḍ) — bird
  • Korean: 닭 (dak) — bird
  • Krio: fɔl — bird
  • Kumyk: тавукъ (tawuq) — bird
  • Central Kurdish: مریشک (mrîşk) — bird
  • Central Kurdish: مامر (mamir) — bird
  • Northern Kurdish: mirîşk — bird
  • Southern Kurdish: مامر (mamir) — bird
  • Kyrgyz: тоок (took) — bird
  • Ladin: gialina — bird
  • Lak: аьнакӏи (änakʼi) — bird
  • Lao: ໄກ່ (kai) — bird
  • Latgalian: vysta — bird
  • Latin: pullus — bird
  • Latin: gallus — bird
  • Latin: gallina — bird
  • Latvian: cālis — bird
  • Latvian: vista — bird
  • Laz: ქოთუმე (kotume) — bird
  • Lezgi: верч (verč) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓬꓸ (jɑ́) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓮꓸ ꓬꓸ (ɑ́ jɑ́) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓭꓸ (ɣɑ́) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓮꓸ ꓭꓸ (ɑ́ ɣɑ́) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓭꓺ (ɣɑ̱) — bird
  • Lisu: ꓕꓽ ꓕꓸ (thɑ̀ thɑ́) — bird
  • Lithuanian: višta — bird
  • Lombard: pui — bird
  • Lombard: polaster — bird
  • Low German: Hohn — bird
  • : ᦺᦂᧈ (k̇ay1) — bird
  • Luganda: nsósó — bird
  • Lutuv: aa — bird
  • Luxembourgish: Hong — bird
  • Macedonian: кокошка (kokoška) — bird
  • Malagasy: akoho — bird
  • Malay: ayam — bird
  • Malay: manuk — bird
  • Brunei Malay: ayam — bird
  • Malayalam: കോഴി (kōḻi) — bird
  • Maltese: fellus — bird
  • Maltese: tiġieġa — bird
  • Manchu: ᠴᠣᡴᠣ (coko) — bird
  • Mandar: manuq — bird
  • Māori: heihei — bird
  • Maranao: manok — bird
  • Marathi: कोंबडा (kombḍā) — bird
  • Marathi: कोंबडी (kombḍī) — bird
  • Western Mari: цӹвӹ (cÿvÿ) — bird
  • Marshallese: bao — bird
  • Marshallese: bao in laļ — bird
  • Maybrat: kokok — bird
  • Mazanderani: کرک (kerk) — bird
  • Central Melanau: siyau — bird
  • Middle English: chike — bird
  • Middle English: chekyn — bird
  • Mi'kmaq: go'qoli'gwej — bird
  • Mingrelian: ქოთომი (kotomi) — bird
  • Mizo: ár — bird
  • Mon: စာၚ် — bird
  • Mongolian: тахиа (taxia) — bird
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠬᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (taqiy-a) — bird
  • Muna: ayam — bird
  • Muong: ca — bird
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vèu — bird
  • Nahuatl: cuanacatl — bird
  • Navajo: naaʼahóóhai — bird
  • Neapolitan: pùllo — bird
  • Nepali: कुखुरा (Kukhurā) — bird
  • Niuean: moa — bird
  • Nivkh: пʼеӄ нонӄ (pʼeq nonq) — bird
  • Nivkh: арфэӄ (arfeq) — bird
  • Nivkh: пʼеӄ (pʼeq) — bird
  • Norman: poulet — bird
  • Northern Sotho: kgogo — bird
  • Norwegian Bokmål: høne — bird
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kylling — bird
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: høne — bird
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kylling — bird
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjukling — bird
  • Occitan: galina — bird
  • Ojibwe: baaka'aakwenh — bird
  • Old English: ċȳcen — bird
  • Old English: cicen — bird
  • Old Norse: kyklingr — bird
  • Oromo: lukkuu — bird
  • Pannonian Rusyn: курче (kurče) — bird
  • Pannonian Rusyn: кура (kura) — bird
  • Pashto: چرګ (čarg) — bird
  • Pela: ɣaʔ31 — bird
  • Pennsylvania German: Hinkel — bird
  • Persian: مرغ خانگی (morġ-e xânegi) — bird
  • Persian: ماک (mâk) — bird
  • Persian: مرغ (morġ) — bird
  • Persian: جوجه (juje) — bird
  • Picard: poulhe — bird
  • Picard: co — bird
  • Pirahã: páxaihi — bird
  • Polish: kurczak — bird
  • Polish: kura — bird
  • Portuguese: frango — bird
  • Portuguese: galinha — bird
  • Quechua: wallpa — bird
  • Rapa Nui: moa — bird
  • Romani: khajni — bird
  • Romani: kaxni — bird
  • Romani: khajnǒrri — bird
  • Romanian: pui — bird
  • Romanian: găină — bird
  • Romansh: pulschain — bird
  • Romansh: giaglina — bird
  • Russian: цыплёнок (cypljónok) — bird
  • Russian: ку́рица (kúrica) — bird
  • Russian: пету́х (petúx) — bird
  • Rutul: кӏатӏ (ḳaṭ) — bird
  • Rwanda-Rundi: inkoko — bird
  • Inari-Sami: kääni — bird
  • Northern Sami: vuonccis — bird
  • Skolt-Sami: kääˊnn — bird
  • Samoan: moa — bird
  • Samogitian: vėšta — bird
  • Sanskrit: कुक्कुट (kukkuṭa) — bird
  • Sardinian: caboniscu — bird
  • Sardinian: caboni — bird
  • Sardinian: puddone — bird
  • Sardinian: puddu — bird
  • Sardinian: pudhu — bird
  • Scots: chicken — bird
  • Scottish Gaelic: eireag — bird
  • Scottish Gaelic: cearc — bird
  • Sebop: diek — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: кокош — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: кокошка — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: петао — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: пијетао — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: певац — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: пијевац — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: пиле — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: kokoš — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: kokoška — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: petao — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: pijetao — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: pevac — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: pijevac — bird
  • Serbo-Croatian: pile — bird
  • Shan: ၵႆႇဢွၼ်ႇ (kài ʼàun) — bird
  • Shan: ၵႆႇ (kài) — bird
  • Shona: huku — bird
  • Sicilian: puddu — bird
  • Sidamo: lukkichcho — bird
  • Slovak: sliepka — bird
  • Slovak: kurča — bird
  • Slovak: kura — bird
  • Slovene: piščanec — bird
  • Slovene: petelin — bird
  • Slovene: kokoš — bird
  • Somali: digaag — bird
  • Lower Sorbian: kokoš — bird
  • Lower Sorbian: kurje — bird
  • Lower Sorbian: kurjetko — bird
  • Lower Sorbian: kura — bird
  • Upper Sorbian: ćipka — bird
  • Upper Sorbian: kokoš — bird
  • Upper Sorbian: kurjo — bird
  • Upper Sorbian: kurjatko — bird
  • Sotho: kgoho — bird
  • Sougb: berougb — bird
  • Spanish: pollo — bird
  • Sranan Tongo: fowru — bird
  • Svan: ქათალ (katal) — bird
  • Swahili: kuku — bird
  • Swedish: höna — bird
  • Swedish: kyckling — bird
  • Sylheti: ꠝꠥꠞꠥꠉ (murug) — bird
  • Sylheti: ꠝꠥꠞ꠆ꠉꠣ (murga) — bird
  • Sylheti: ꠝꠥꠞ꠆ꠉꠤ (murgi) — bird
  • Tabaru: namoro — bird
  • Tagalog: manok — bird
  • Tai Dam: cáy — bird
  • Tai Dam: ꪼꪀ꪿ — bird
  • Tamil: கோழி (kōḻi) — bird
  • Taos: lìlúna — bird
  • Tarifit: yaẓiḍ — bird
  • Tausug: manuk — bird
  • Tày: cáy — bird
  • Telugu: కోడి (kōḍi) — bird
  • Tewa: dee — bird
  • Thai: ไก่ (gài) — bird
  • Northern Thai: ᨠᩱ᩵ — bird
  • Tibetan: བྱ་དེ (bya de) — bird
  • Tocharian B: kranko — bird
  • Tokelauan: moa — bird
  • Tokelauan: meamoa — bird
  • Tongan: moa — bird
  • Tooro: enkoko class 9 — bird
  • Tsakhur: кӏатӏе (ḳaṭje) — bird
  • Tumbuka: nkhuku — bird
  • Turkish: tavuk — bird
  • Uab Meto: manu — bird
  • Ukrainian: курча́ (kurčá) — bird
  • Ukrainian: ку́рка (kúrka) — bird
  • Urdu: مرغا (murġā) — bird
  • Uyghur: توخۇ (toxu) — bird
  • Uzbek: tovuq — bird
  • Venetan: polàstro — bird
  • Vietnamese: gà — bird
  • Volapük: gok — bird
  • Walloon: poye — bird
  • Welsh: cyw — bird
  • Welsh: iâr — bird
  • Woiwurrung: djak-djak — bird
  • Woiwurrung: wawert — bird
  • Wolaytta: kuttuwa — bird
  • Wolof: ganaar gi — bird
  • Yami: manok — bird
  • Yao (Africa): nguku class 9/10 — bird
  • Yapese: nimen — bird
  • Yiddish: הון (hun) — bird
  • Zazaki: kerge (diq) — bird
  • Zhuang: gaeq — bird
  • Zou: ah — bird
  • Zyphe: aa — bird
  • Afrikaans: hoendervleis — meat
  • Ahom: 𑜃𑜢𑜤𑜰𑜫 𑜀𑜩 (nü0 kay) — meat
  • Albanian: pulë — meat
  • Southern Altai: куштыҥ эди (kuštïŋ edi) — meat
  • Arabic: دَجَاج (dajāj) — meat
  • Arabic: لَحْم دَجَاج (laḥm dajāj) — meat
  • Arabic: فراخ (frāḵ) — meat
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܬܲܝܬܵܐ (ktayta) — meat
  • Armenian: հավի միս (havi mis) — meat
  • Asturian: pollu — meat
  • Azerbaijani: toyuq əti — meat
  • Central Bikol: manok — meat
  • Bulgarian: пиле (pile) — meat
  • Bulgarian: пилешко (pileško) — meat
  • Burmese: ကြက်သား (kraksa:) — meat
  • Catalan: pollastre — meat
  • Chinese Cantonese: 雞肉 /鷄肉 /鸡肉 (gai1 juk6) — meat
  • Chinese: 雞肉 /鷄肉 /鸡肉 (ke-bah, koe-bah) — meat
  • Chinese Mandarin: 雞肉 /鷄肉 /鸡肉 (jīròu) — meat
  • Cornish: kig yar — meat
  • Czech: kuře — meat
  • Danish: kylling — meat
  • Dutch: kip — meat
  • Dutch: kippenvlees — meat
  • Esperanto: kokaĵo — meat
  • Estonian: kanaliha — meat
  • Ewe: koklolã — meat
  • Finnish: kana — meat
  • Finnish: kananpoika — meat
  • Finnish: broileri — meat
  • French: poulet — meat
  • Georgian: ქათამი (katami) — meat
  • German: Huhn — meat
  • German: Hühnchen — meat
  • German: Hühnerfleisch — meat
  • German: Hähnchen — meat
  • German: Poulet — meat
  • Greek: κοτόπουλο (kotópoulo) — meat
  • Greenlandic: kukkukuuaraq — meat
  • Hebrew: עוף — meat
  • White Hmong: qaib — meat
  • Hungarian: csirkehús — meat
  • Ido: hanokarno — meat
  • Indonesian: ayam — meat
  • Irish: circeoil — meat
  • Italian: pollo — meat
  • Japanese: 鶏肉 — meat
  • Japanese: 黄鶏 (kashiwa) — meat
  • Japanese: チキン (chikin) — meat
  • Kabyle: ayaziḍ — meat
  • Kannada: ಕೋಳಿಮಾಂಸ (kōḷimāṃsa) — meat
  • Khakas: таңах иді (tañax idì) — meat
  • Khmer: សាច់មាន់ — meat
  • Korean: 닭고기 (dakgogi) — meat
  • Korean: 치킨 (chikin) — meat
  • Kumyk: тавукъ (tawuq) — meat
  • Latvian: cāļa gaļa — meat
  • Lithuanian: vištiena — meat
  • Luxembourgish: Poulet — meat
  • Macedonian: пилешко (pileško) — meat
  • Malay: ayam — meat
  • Malayalam: കോഴിയിറച്ചി (kōḻiyiṟacci) — meat
  • Marathi: कोंबडी (kombḍī) — meat
  • Marathi: चिकन (cikan) — meat
  • Mongolian: тахианы мах (taxiany max) — meat
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vèunyèih — meat
  • Norman: poulet — meat
  • Norwegian: kylling — meat
  • Pannonian Rusyn: курчецина (kurčecina) — meat
  • Pannonian Rusyn: курецина (kurecina) — meat
  • Persian: مرغ (morġ) — meat
  • Persian: جوجه (juje) — meat
  • Polish: kurczak — meat
  • Portuguese: frango — meat
  • Romanian: pui — meat
  • Romansh: poulet — meat
  • Romansh: pulaster — meat
  • Russian: куря́тина (kurjátina) — meat
  • Serbo-Croatian: пилетина — meat
  • Serbo-Croatian: piletina — meat
  • Slovak: kuracina — meat
  • Slovak: slepačina — meat
  • Sotho: nama ya kgoho — meat
  • Spanish: pollo — meat
  • Spanish: gallina — meat
  • Swahili: nyama ya kuku — meat
  • Swedish: kyckling — meat
  • Tagalog: manok — meat
  • Tamil: கோழியிறைச்சி (kōḻiyiṟaicci) — meat
  • Tamil: சிக்கன் (cikkaṉ) — meat
  • Telugu: కోడిమాంసం (kōḍimāṁsaṁ) — meat
  • Tibetan: བྱ་ཤ (bya sha) — meat
  • Turkish: piliç — meat
  • Turkish: tavuk — meat
  • Ukrainian: ку́рятина (kúrjatyna) — meat
  • Welsh: cyw iâr — meat
  • Welsh: ffowlyn — meat
  • Armenian: վախկոտ (vaxkot) — coward
  • Armenian: ղզիկ (ġzik) — coward
  • Breton: kozh yar — coward
  • Bulgarian: страхливец (strahlivec) — coward
  • Bulgarian: пъзльо (pǎzljo) — coward
  • Catalan: gallina — coward
  • Czech: zbabělec — coward
  • Czech: posera — coward
  • Danish: bangebuks — coward
  • Danish: kylling — coward
  • Dutch: lafaard — coward
  • Dutch: wezel — coward
  • Dutch: lafbek — coward
  • Dutch: angsthaas — coward
  • Estonian: arg — coward
  • Estonian: argpüks — coward
  • Finnish: pelkuri — coward
  • Finnish: arkajalka — coward
  • Finnish: jänishousu — coward
  • French: poule mouillée — coward
  • French: poltron — coward
  • German: Feigling — coward
  • German: Fiigling — coward
  • Greek: κότα (kóta) — coward
  • Hebrew: שָׁפָן (shafán) — coward
  • Hungarian: nyuszi — coward
  • Indonesian: pengecut — coward
  • Indonesian: penakut — coward
  • Italian: coniglio — coward
  • Italian: mammoletta — coward
  • Italian: pollo — coward
  • Italian: merlo — coward
  • Italian: femminuccia — coward
  • Italian: smidollato — coward
  • Italian: pappa molle — coward
  • Italian: pappamolle — coward
  • Italian: rammollito — coward
  • Italian: fifone — coward
  • Italian: codardo — coward
  • Italian: cortigiano — coward
  • Italian: mollusco — coward
  • Italian: vigliacco — coward
  • Italian: pusillanime — coward
  • Italian: eunuco — coward
  • Italian: debole — coward
  • Italian: pisciasotto — coward
  • Italian: cacasotto — coward
  • Italian: pauroso — coward
  • Italian: vile — coward
  • Lithuanian: bailus — coward
  • Macedonian: кукавица (kukavica) — coward
  • Malay: pengecut — coward
  • Norwegian: feiging — coward
  • Polish: tchórz — coward
  • Portuguese: covarde — coward
  • Portuguese: cobarde — coward
  • Portuguese: bundão — coward
  • Portuguese: cagão — coward
  • Russian: трус (trus) — coward
  • Russian: труси́ха (trusíxa) — coward
  • Russian: трусишка (trusiška) — coward
  • Russian: ссыку́н (ssykún) — coward
  • Russian: бздун (bzdun) — coward
  • Serbo-Croatian: кукавица — coward
  • Serbo-Croatian: kukavica — coward
  • Spanish: gallina — coward
  • Spanish: cobarde — coward
  • Swedish: fegis — coward
  • Swedish: mes — coward
  • Volapük: dredöfan — coward
  • Volapük: hidredöfan — coward
  • Volapük: jidredöfan — coward
  • Volapük: dredajiedan — coward
  • Volapük: dredahijiedan — coward
  • Volapük: dredajijiedan — coward
  • Zazaki: varing — coward
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