name · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈmælˌɑːd/
Received-Pronunciation:[ˈmælˌɑːd]
General-American:/ˈmælɚd/
General-American:[ˈmælɚd] ~ [ˈmælɹ̩d]
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rhymes with -ælɑː(ɹ)d
rhymes with -ælə(ɹ)d
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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