noun
Meaning 1
Any of several species of kingfishers in the genus Dacelo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kookaburra
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʊkəˌbʌɹə/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkʊkəˌbaɹə/
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General-American: /ˈkʊkəˌbʌɹə/
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General-American: /ˈkʊkəˌbɝɹə/
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rhymes with -ʌɹə
noun
Meaning 2
Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: laughing jackass, Dacelo gigas
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: kingfisher
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Wiradjuri guuguubarra (“laughing kookaburra”).
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كوكابورا — kingfishers
- Asturian: cucaburra — kingfishers
- Belarusian: кукаба́ра (kukabára) — kingfishers
- Bulgarian: кукабура (kukabura) — kingfishers
- Catalan: cucaburra — kingfishers
- Chinese Mandarin: 笑翠鳥 /笑翠鸟 (xiàocuìniǎo) — kingfishers
- Chinese Mandarin: 柯卡布拉 (kēkǎbùlā) — kingfishers
- Dutch: kookaburra — kingfishers
- Esperanto: kukabarao — kingfishers
- Estonian: kuukabarra — kingfishers
- Finnish: nauraja — kingfishers
- French: kookaburra — kingfishers
- French: martin-chasseur géant — kingfishers
- Gamilaraay: gurruulga — kingfishers
- Gamilaraay: gugaa — kingfishers
- Gamilaraay: gugurrgaagaa — kingfishers
- German: Jägerliest — kingfishers
- German: Kookaburra — kingfishers
- Greek: κουκαμπούρα (koukampoúra) — kingfishers
- Guugu Yimidhirr: gugurrgaagaa — kingfishers
- Hebrew: קוקברה (kukabára) — kingfishers
- Hungarian: kokabura — kingfishers
- Icelandic: kókabúrra — kingfishers
- Icelandic: hláturfugl — kingfishers
- Indonesian: kukabura — kingfishers
- Irish: cúcabarra — kingfishers
- Italian: kookaburra — kingfishers
- Japanese: ワライカワセミ (warai kawasemi) — kingfishers
- Japanese: 笑翡翠 (warai kawasemi) — kingfishers
- Japanese: 笑い翡翠 (warai kawasemi) — kingfishers
- Kaurna: kukatka — kingfishers
- Kaurna: ngungana — kingfishers
- Korean: 쿠카부라 (kukabura) — kingfishers
- Linngithigh: ngga'angk — kingfishers
- Norwegian: kokaburra — kingfishers
- Ossetian: кукабаррӕ (kukabarræ) — kingfishers
- Panyjima: nhithinypa — kingfishers
- Persian: کوکابورا (kokâburâ) — kingfishers
- Polish: kukabura — kingfishers
- Portuguese: kookaburra — kingfishers
- Portuguese: cucaburra — kingfishers
- Punjabi: ਕੂਕਾਬਰਾ (kūkābrā) — kingfishers
- Punjabi: کوکابرا (kokābrā) — kingfishers
- Russian: кукаба́ра (kukabára) — kingfishers
- Russian: кукаба́рра (kukabárra) — kingfishers
- Russian: кукабу́рра (kukabúrra) — kingfishers
- Russian: гига́нтский зиморо́док (gigántskij zimoródok) — kingfishers
- Samoan: kukapala — kingfishers
- Slovak: kukabara — kingfishers
- Spanish: cucaburra — kingfishers
- Swedish: kookaburra — kingfishers
- Swedish: kokaburra — kingfishers
- Tagalog: kukabura — kingfishers
- Tamil: கூக்கபரா (kūkkaparā) — kingfishers
- Welsh: cwcabyra — kingfishers
- Wiradjuri: guuguubarra — kingfishers
- Wiradjuri: guguburra — kingfishers
- Woiwurrung: gurrng gurrng — kingfishers
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