gull

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In reference to the seagulls found in Torquay, a coastal town.

Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).

Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”), from Middle English gole (“throat”).

From Middle English gole (“a whirlpool, narrow inlet of the sea, ditch or stream”), from Middle Low German goel, gȫl, gȫle (“swamp, marshy lowland”), related to Old Dutch gulla (“pool, puddle”), Old French goille (“pool, puddle, pond”), all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *goli, *golljā (“puddle”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *guljaz, *guljǭ.

215 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҷныш (ačʼnəŝ) — seabird
• Afrikaans: meeu — seabird
• Afrikaans: seemeeu — seabird
• Ainu: カピゥ (kapiw) — seabird
• Albanian: pulëbardha — seabird
• Alutor: яӄяӄ — seabird
• Arabic: نَوْرَس (nawras) — seabird
• Arabic: نورس (nōras) — seabird
• Arabic: نوارِس (nawāris) — seabird
• Arabic: نَوْرَس (nawras) — seabird
• Arabic: نوارِس (nawāris) — seabird
• Arabic: نَوْرَس (náwras) — seabird
• Arabic: نوارِس (nawēris) — seabird
• Arabic: نَوْرَس (náwras) — seabird
• Arabic: نوارِس (nawāris) — seabird
• Tunisian Arabic: ڨاوية (gāwya) — seabird
• Armenian: ճայ (čay) — seabird
• Armenian: որոր (oror) — seabird
• Asturian: gaviota — seabird
• Asturian: gavilueta — seabird
• Avar: чайка (čajka) — seabird
• Azerbaijani: qağayı — seabird
• Basque: kaio — seabird
• Basque: antxeta — seabird
• Belarusian: ча́йка (čájka) — seabird
• Belarusian: мэ́ва (méva) — seabird
• Breton: gouelan — seabird
• Bulgarian: ча́йка (čájka) — seabird
• Burarra: ji-rrimula — seabird
• Burarra: rrertert — seabird
• Burmese: စင်ရော် (cang-rau) — seabird
• Catalan: gavina — seabird
• Catalan: gavià — seabird
• Chinese Mandarin: 海鷗 /海鸥 (hǎi'ōu) — seabird
• Chukchi: йъаяӄ (jʺajaq) — seabird
• Chuvash: чарлан (čarlan) — seabird
• West Circassian: хытхьарыкъуэ (xətḥarəqwɛ) — seabird
• Cornish: golan — seabird
• Montagnais: tshiashku — seabird
• Czech: racek — seabird
• Danish: måge — seabird
• Djinang: jarrak — seabird
• Dutch: meeuw — seabird
• Esperanto: mevo — seabird
• Esperanto: laro — seabird
• Estonian: kajakas — seabird
• Faroese: mási — seabird
• Faroese: máur — seabird
• Faroese: mávur — seabird
• Finnish: lokki — seabird
• French: goéland — seabird
• French: mauve — seabird
• French: mouette — seabird
• West-Frisian: seefûgel — seabird
• West-Frisian: meau — seabird
• Friulian: cocâl — seabird
• Friulian: smurgnic — seabird
• Galician: gaivota — seabird
• Galician: gueivota — seabird
• Galician: pílora — seabird
• Galician: papón — seabird
• Galician: carrau — seabird
• Galician: argau — seabird
• Galician: merlinga — seabird
• Galician: canrai — seabird
• Galician: gácea — seabird
• Georgian: თოლია (tolia) — seabird
• German: Möwe — seabird
• German: Möwenvogel — seabird
• Greek: γλάρος (gláros) — seabird
• Ancient Greek: λάρος (láros) — seabird
• Pontic Greek: τζελελία (tzelelía) — seabird
• Pontic Greek: τζίνος (tzínos) — seabird
• Pontic Greek: χαψοπούλλι (chapsopoúlli) — seabird
• Greenlandic: naaja — seabird
• Guugu Yimidhirr: milgaandurr — seabird
• Hawaiian: kalapuna — seabird
• Hebrew: שחף (shákhaf) — seabird
• Hungarian: sirály — seabird
• Icelandic: máfur — seabird
• Icelandic: mávur — seabird
• Ido: muevo — seabird
• Ingrian: kajava — seabird
• Irish: faoileán — seabird
• Irish: faoileog — seabird
• Italian: gabbiano — seabird
• Itelmen: йаӄйаӄ — seabird
• Iwaidja: mirridbu — seabird
• Japanese: 鴎 (kamome) — seabird
• Japanese: カモメ (kamome) — seabird
• Japanese: 海猫 (umi-neko) — seabird
• Japanese: ウミネコ (umi-neko) — seabird
• Kalmyk: цах (tsax) — seabird
• Kazakh: шағала (şağala) — seabird
• Klamath-Modoc: kolɁa — seabird
• Komi-Zyrian: каля (kaľa) — seabird
• Korean: 갈매기 (galmaegi) — seabird
• Kumyk: чабакъчы (çabaqçı) — seabird
• Kumyk: чабакъ къуш (çabaq quş) — seabird
• Kumyk: чарлакъкъуш (çarlaqquş) — seabird
• Central Kurdish: نەورەس (newres) — seabird
• Ladin: gabian — seabird
• Latgalian: zyvāda — seabird
• Latgalian: kaiva — seabird
• Latin: larus — seabird
• Latin: mergus — seabird
• Latin: gavia — seabird
• Latvian: kaija — seabird
• Latvian: kajaks — seabird
• Latvian: kaiva — seabird
• Laz: ალიონი (alioni) — seabird
• Laz: ჭინო (ç̌ino) — seabird
• Laz: მარტინი (marťini) — seabird
• Lithuanian: kiras — seabird
• Lithuanian: mevas — seabird
• Low German: Mööv — seabird
• Low German: Meuv — seabird
• Low German: Meev — seabird
• Low German: Meiw’ — seabird
• Low German: Mööw’ — seabird
• Luxembourgish: Méiw — seabird
• Macedonian: га́леб (gáleb) — seabird
• Malay: burung camar — seabird
• Malay: camar — seabird
• Maltese: gawwija — seabird
• Manx: foillan — seabird
• Māori: karoro — seabird
• Marathi: समुद्रकावळा (samudrakāvḷā) — seabird
• Eastern Mari: колшыре (kolšyre) — seabird
• Eastern Mari: тарляк (tarĺak) — seabird
• Western Mari: колшӹре (kolšÿre) — seabird
• Maung: kalawitpit — seabird
• Maung: marrakak — seabird
• Maung: mirrijpu — seabird
• Mazanderani: کاکایی (kākāyi) — seabird
• Middle English: gulle — seabird
• Mingrelian: თოლია (tolia) — seabird
• Mongolian: цахлай (caxlaj) — seabird
• Navajo: tónteel tsídii — seabird
• Ngarrindjeri: throkeri — seabird
• Nivkh: кеӽ (keẋ) — seabird
• Norman: maoue — seabird
• Norman: mâove — seabird
• Norman: mauve — seabird
• Norwegian Bokmål: måke — seabird
• Norwegian Bokmål: måse — seabird
• Norwegian Nynorsk: måke — seabird
• Norwegian Nynorsk: måse — seabird
• Occitan: gavian — seabird
• Ojibwe: gayaashk — seabird
• Old English: mǣw — seabird
• Ottawa: gyaashk — seabird
• Persian: مرغ دریایی (morġ-e daryâyi) — seabird
• Plautdietsch: Meew — seabird
• Polish: mewa — seabird
• Portuguese: gaivota — seabird
• Romani: chayka — seabird
• Romani: chirikli-mariaki — seabird
• Romanian: pescăruș — seabird
• Romansh: muetta — seabird
• Russian: ча́йка (čájka) — seabird
• Northern Sami: báiski — seabird
• Sardinian: cau marinu — seabird
• Sardinian: laru — seabird
• Sardinian: gavina — seabird
• Scottish Gaelic: faoileann — seabird
• Scottish Gaelic: faoileag — seabird
• Serbo-Croatian: галеб — seabird
• Serbo-Croatian: galeb — seabird
• Shor: ағый (ağıy) — seabird
• Sicilian: gava — seabird
• Sicilian: aceddu dû malutempu — seabird
• Slovak: čajka — seabird
• Slovene: galeb — seabird
• Lower Sorbian: rybnica — seabird
• Upper Sorbian: tonuška — seabird
• Spanish: gaviota — seabird
• Swahili: shakwe — seabird
• Swedish: mås — seabird
• Swedish: trut — seabird
• Tatar: акчарлак (aqçarlaq) — seabird
• Tetum: gaivota — seabird
• Tiwi: martapani — seabird
• Tiwi: wujirrini — seabird
• Tongan: tala — seabird
• Turkish: martı — seabird
• Ottoman Turkish: مارتی (martı) — seabird
• Ottoman Turkish: بركه (bürke) — seabird
• Udmurt: камкоӵо (kamkočo) — seabird
• Udmurt: сизясь (śiźaś) — seabird
• Udmurt: чарлан (ćarlan) — seabird
• Ukrainian: ча́йка (čájka) — seabird
• Ukrainian: ма́ртин (mártyn) — seabird
• Ukrainian: ме́ва (méva) — seabird
• Venetan: cocal — seabird
• Vietnamese: hải âu — seabird
• Vietnamese: mòng biển — seabird
• Vietnamese: mòng bể — seabird
• Volapük: mev — seabird
• Warlpiri: kijitarra-tarra — seabird
• Welsh: gwylan — seabird
• Wik-Mungkan: oopal — seabird
• Yakut: хопто (qopto) — seabird
• Yámana: kalala — seabird
• Yiddish: מעווע (meve) — seabird
• Bulgarian: измамвам (izmamvam) — to deceive or cheat
• Czech: napálit — to deceive or cheat
• Hungarian: rászed — to deceive or cheat
• Hungarian: becsap — to deceive or cheat
• Hungarian: bepaliz — to deceive or cheat
• Hungarian: átejt — to deceive or cheat
• Macedonian: и́змами (ízmami) — to deceive or cheat
• Romanian: păcăli — to deceive or cheat
• Romanian: înșela — to deceive or cheat
• Russian: обма́нывать (obmányvatʹ) — to deceive or cheat