parakeet

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpaɹəkiːt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /paɹəˈkiːt/
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• General-American: /ˈpɛɹəkit/
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• CMU ARPABET: P EH1 R AH0 K IY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: parkiet — various species of small parrots
• Arabic: دُرَّة (durra) — various species of small parrots
• Arabic: بَارَاكِيت (bārākīt) — various species of small parrots
• Asturian: periquitu — various species of small parrots
• Burmese: ကျေး (kye:) — various species of small parrots
• Burmese: ကြက်တော (kraktau:) — various species of small parrots
• Catalan: periquito — various species of small parrots
• Chinese Mandarin: 長尾鸚鵡 /长尾鹦鹉 (chángwěi yīngwǔ) — various species of small parrots
• Danish: parakit — various species of small parrots
• Dutch: parkiet — various species of small parrots
• Esperanto: papago — various species of small parrots
• Esperanto: konuro — various species of small parrots
• Finnish: aratti — various species of small parrots
• French: perruche — various species of small parrots
• Galician: periquito — various species of small parrots
• German: Sittich — various species of small parrots
• Greek: παπαγαλίνα (papagalína) — various species of small parrots
• Hebrew: דְּרָרָה (drára) — various species of small parrots
• Hungarian: papagáj — various species of small parrots
• Ido: perucho — various species of small parrots
• Irish: pearaicít — various species of small parrots
• Italian: parrocchetto — various species of small parrots
• Japanese: 鸚哥 (inko) — various species of small parrots
• Japanese: インコ (inko) — various species of small parrots
• Korean: 잉꼬 (ingkko) — various species of small parrots
• Malay: nuri — various species of small parrots
• Māori: porete — various species of small parrots
• Māori: torete — various species of small parrots
• Māori: pōreterete — various species of small parrots
• Māori: kawatere — various species of small parrots
• Navajo: tsídii yáłtiʼí yázhí — various species of small parrots
• Norman: pèrrotchet — various species of small parrots
• Norwegian Bokmål: parakitt — various species of small parrots
• Norwegian Nynorsk: parakitt — various species of small parrots
• Polish: papużka — various species of small parrots
• Portuguese: periquito — various species of small parrots
• Romanian: peruș — various species of small parrots
• Russian: длиннохво́стый попуга́й (dlinnoxvóstyj popugáj) — various species of small parrots
• Russian: попуга́й (popugáj) — various species of small parrots
• Russian: попуга́йчик (popugájčik) — various species of small parrots
• Lower Sorbian: papagajik — various species of small parrots
• Spanish: perico — various species of small parrots
• Spanish: periquito — various species of small parrots
• Swedish: parakit — various species of small parrots
• Tamil: கிளி (kiḷi) — various species of small parrots
• Turkish: muhabbetkuşu — various species of small parrots
• Uzbek: toʻtiqush — various species of small parrots
• Vietnamese: vẹt — various species of small parrots
• Vietnamese: két — various species of small parrots
• Welsh: parotan — various species of small parrots
• Welsh: paracît — various species of small parrots