plumage

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• Received-Pronunciation: plo͞om'ĭj
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• Received-Pronunciation, obsolete: plyo͞o-
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpluːmɪd͡ʒ/
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• obsolete, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpljuː-/
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• General-American: /ˈplumɪd͡ʒ/
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• rhymes with -uːmɪdʒ
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• CMU ARPABET: P L UW1 M AH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P L UW1 M IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English plumage, plummage (“bird’s feathers collectively, plumage; (falconry) feathers fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, casting”), from Middle French plumage, plomage (“bird’s feathers collectively; person’s (showy) clothing”), from Old French plumage (“bird’s feathers collectively”) (modern French plumage), from plume (“feather, plume”) + -age (suffix forming nouns denoting a state of being). Plume is derived from Latin plūma (“feather, plume”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to flow; to fly; to run; etc.”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to flow; to fly; to run”). By surface analysis, plume + -age (suffix forming nouns with a sense of appurtenance or collection).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رَخْت (raḵt) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Bulgarian: оперение (operenie) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Bulgarian: перушина (perušina) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Burmese: အမွေး (a.mwe:) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Catalan: plomatge — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Chinese Mandarin: 羽毛 (yǔmáo) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Czech: peří — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Danish: fjerdragt — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Dutch: pluimage — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Dutch: gevederte — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Dutch: verenkleed — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Esperanto: plumaro — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Finnish: höyhenet — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Finnish: höyhenpeite — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Finnish: höyhenpuku — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• French: plumage — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• French: plume (metonym) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• French: plumée — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• French: pennage — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Galician: plumaxe — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• German: Federkleid — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• German: Federschmuck — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• German: Gefieder — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• German: Vogelgefieder — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Greek: φτέρωμα (ftéroma) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Hungarian: toll — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Hungarian: tollazat — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Icelandic: fjaðrir — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Icelandic: fjaðraskraut — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Ido: plumaro — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Irish: cluimhreach — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Irish: clúmh — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Italian: piumaggio — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Italian: piume — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Japanese: 羽毛 (umō) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Korean: 깃털 (git'teol) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Macedonian: перје (perje) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjærdrakt — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjærham — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjørdrakt — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjørham — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjørdrakt — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjørham — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Pannonian Rusyn: пирє (pirje) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Polish: pierze — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Portuguese: plumagem — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Russian: опере́ние (operénije) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Serbo-Croatian: пе̑рје — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Serbo-Croatian: pȇrje — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Spanish: plumaje — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Swedish: fjäderdräkt — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Ottoman Turkish: ریش (riş) — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Volapük: plümem — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Volapük: bödaplümem — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Volapük: penaklot — feathers covering the body of a bird collectively
• Arabic: رَخْت (raḵt) — person’s dress, especially when elaborate or fine
• Bulgarian: премяна (premjana) — person’s dress, especially when elaborate or fine
• Dutch: vol ornaat — person’s dress, especially when elaborate or fine
• Finnish: puku — person’s dress, especially when elaborate or fine
• Ottoman Turkish: ریش (riş) — person’s dress, especially when elaborate or fine