Standard Lemma guide

mallard

name · noun · 6 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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmælˌɑːd/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈmælˌɑːd]
  • General-American: /ˈmælɚd/
  • General-American: [ˈmælɚd] ~ [ˈmælɹ̩d]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ælɑː(ɹ)d
  • rhymes with -ælə(ɹ)d
  • CMU ARPABET: M AE1 L ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A minor city in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States, named for the duck.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A ghost town in Itasca Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States, named after a nearby lake.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The meat of this bird, eaten as food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Anas platyrhynchos

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: duck

History

Etymology

Eponymised form of mallard.

From Middle English malard, mawlard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.

Across languages

Translations

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Ahtna: sidatlʼetsʼi — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Albanian: rosa e vëndit — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Assamese: পাতিহাঁহ (patihãh) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Assamese: আমৰ’লীয়া হাঁহ (amorölia hãh) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Azerbaijani: vəhşi ördək — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Belarusian: крыжанка (kryžanka) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Bengali: নীলশির (nilośir) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Breton: houad-korz — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Bulgarian: дива патица — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Bulgarian: зеленоглавка (zelenoglavka) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Catalan: ànec collverd — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Catalan: collblau — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Catalan: àneda rossa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Chechen: акха бад (aqa bad) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Chinese Mandarin: 綠頭鴨 /绿头鸭 (lǜtóuyā) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Czech: kachna divoká — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Danish: gråand — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Dutch: wilde eend — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Erzya: матярка (maťarka) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Esperanto: platbeka anaso — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Estonian: sinikael part — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Faroese: villdunna — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Finnish: sinisorsa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Finnish: heinäsorsa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • French: colvert — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • French: canard colvert — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • French: canard sauvage — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • West-Frisian: wylde ein — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Friulian: masurin — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Friulian: mazar — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Friulian: mazorin — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Friulian: raze grande — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Galician: lavanco — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Georgian: გარეული იხვი (gareuli ixvi) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • German: Stockente — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Greek: αγριόπαπια (agriópapia) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Greenlandic: qeerlutooq — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Northern Haida: x̱aa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Southern Haida: x̱aax̱a — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Hebrew: ברכיה (brekhiyá) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Hungarian: tőkés réce — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Hungarian: vadkacsa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Icelandic: stokkönd — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ingrian: rohosorsa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Inupiaq: ukhiukhiuq — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Irish: lacha — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Italian: anatra selvatica — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Jamtish: grasǫnd — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Jamtish: błáhałs — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Japanese: 真鴨 (magamo) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kashmiri: پٔچھِن (pạchin) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kashmiri: نِلٕج (nilụj) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kashmiri: تھُج (thuj) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kawaiisu: kurasɨni — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Klamath-Modoc: Weeqs — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Komi-Permyak: горда (gorda) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Komi-Zyrian: горда (gorda) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Korean: 물오리 (murori) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Korean: 청둥오리 (cheongdung'ori) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kott: agaŋa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Kumyk: къырбабиш (qırbabiş) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ladin: anera salvaria — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Latvian: meža pīle — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Latvian: mercene — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Lithuanian: didżioji antis — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Lower Tanana: not'wghi chwx — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Macedonian: дива патка — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Maltese: kuluvert — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Marathi: चतुरंग बदक (caturaṅga badak) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Eastern Mari: кугылудо (kugyludo) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Western Mari: лӧркӓ (lörkä) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Western Mari: когогек лыды (kogogek lydy) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Middle English: malard — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Moksha: сенч (senč) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Classical Nahuatl: zōlcanauhtli — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Navajo: naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ dootłʼizhí — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Norwegian: stokkand — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Occitan: ànec coll-verd — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Southern Ohlone: cipituk — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ossetian: хъӕддаг бабыз (qæddag babyz) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Persian: مرغابی سرسبز (morġâbi-ye sarsabz) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Persian: اردک سرسبز (ordak-e sarsabz) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Polish: kaczka krzyżówka — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Portuguese: pato-real — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romagnol: ziẓôn — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romani: divlio-ratsoy — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romani: divlio-ratsa — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romanian: rață sălbatică — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romanian: rață mare — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Romansh: anda selvadia — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Russian: обыкнове́нная кря́ква (obyknovénnaja krjákva) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Sami: duoršu — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Inari-Sami: tuáršu — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Inari-Sami: stuorrâ vuonjâč — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Lule-Sami: stuorvuojatjis — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Northern Sami: duoršu — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ume-Sami: lággiehtse — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Sardinian: anadi conca birdi — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Sardinian: conchirde — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Sardinian: testirde — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Scots: muir-deuk — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Scottish Gaelic: lach — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Serbo-Croatian: патка глувара — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Serbo-Croatian: divlja patka — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Slovak: kačica divá — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Slovene: mlakarica — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Slovene: divja raca — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Upper Sorbian: dźiwja kačka — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Spanish: pato real — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Spanish: ánade real — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Spanish: azulón — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Swedish: gräsand — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Tagalog: papaw — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Turkish: yeşilbaş — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ottoman Turkish: یشیل باش (yeşil baş) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Turkmen: ýaşylbaş — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Udmurt: сюлыӵӧж (śulyčöž) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Udmurt: сюлы (śuly) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Ukrainian: крижень (kryženʹ) — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Venetan: masorin — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
  • Welsh: hwyaden wyllt — a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos