name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stork
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: stôrk
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General-American: /stɔɹk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /stɔːk/
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British, Southern, Standard: /stoːk/
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k
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homophone: stalk (non-rhotic)
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noun
Meaning 2
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
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noun
Meaning 3
The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, publishing, sciences
Examples
- My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
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noun
Meaning 4
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cartomancy, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wading bird, wader
Narrower terms: white stork, Ciconia ciconia, black stork, Ciconia nigra, adjutant bird, adjutant, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius, marabou, marabout, marabou stork, Leptoptilus crumeniferus, openbill, jabiru, Jabiru mycteria, saddlebill, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, policeman bird, black-necked stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus, wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead, Mycteria americana
History
Etymology
Two main origins: * English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs. * Borrowed from German Stork, probably a nickname or a habitational surname from a place in Hesse.
Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
Across languages
Translations
172 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: ooievaar — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Akkadian: 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (/laqlaqqu/) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Albanian: shtërg — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Albanian: kanushë — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Albanian: lejlek — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Arabic: لَقْلَق (laqlaq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Algerian Arabic: بلارج (ballārij) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Algerian Arabic: بو شقشاق (bū šəqšāq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Chadian Arabic: كنجي (kunji) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Arabic: لقلق (laʔlaʔ) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Arabic: حديج (ħodēg) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Arabic: بلارج (ballārij) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Arabic: لقلاق (laqlāq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Sudanese Arabic: كلجة (kulja) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tunisian Arabic: بلارج (balārij) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܩܠܵܩܵܐ (laqlāqā) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Aramaic: ܚܘܪܒܐ (ḥurbā) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Armenian: արագիլ (aragil) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Old Armenian: արագիլ (aragil) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Old Armenian: տառեղն (taṙełn) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Assamese: সাৰেং (xareṅ) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Asturian: cigüeña — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Azerbaijani: leylək — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Bashkir: ҡауҙы (qawźı) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Basque: amiamoko — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Basque: zikoina — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Bats: ფჰ̡იტიდაუ̌ყუ̂ (ph̡iṭidaǔq̇û) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Belarusian: бу́сел (búsjel) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Belarusian: баця́н (bacján) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Breton: c'hwibon — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Bulgarian: щъ́ркел (štǎ́rkel) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Catalan: cigonya — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 鸛 /鹳 (guàn) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 鸛鳥 /鹳鸟 (guànniǎo) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Cornish: hwibon — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Czech: čáp — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Old Czech: čáp — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Danish: stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Dutch: ooievaar — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Esperanto: cikonio — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Estonian: toonekurg — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Faroese: storkur — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Finnish: kattohaikara — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- French: cigogne — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- West-Frisian: earrebarre — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Friulian: cicogne — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Galician: cegoña — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Georgian: ყარყატი (q̇arq̇aṭi) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- German: Storch — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Greek: πελαργός (pelargós) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Greek: λελέκι (leléki) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ancient Greek: πελαργός (pelargós) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Hebrew: חֲסִידָה (khasidá) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Hindi: राजबक (rājbak) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Hindi: लकलक (laklak) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Hindi: सारस (sāras) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Hungarian: gólya — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Icelandic: storkur — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Indonesian: bangau — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ingrian: aista — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Irish: storc — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Italian: cicogna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Japanese: 鸛 (kōnotori) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Karaim: бусел — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Karaim: бусйол — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Karaim: бусол — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Karakalpak: ләйлек — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Kazakh: ләйлек (läilek) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Kazakh: дегелек (degelek) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Korean: 황새 (hwangsae) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Kumyk: лакълакъ (laqlaq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Central Kurdish: لەقلەق (leqleq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Central Kurdish: حاجی لەقلەق (ḧacî leqleq) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Kyrgyz: илегилек (ilegilek) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ladin: zicogna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Latgalian: žugure — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Latin: cicōnia — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Latvian: stārķis — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Latvian: stārks — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ligurian: çighéugna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Lithuanian: gandras — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Lithuanian: starkus — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Low German: Stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Low German: Störk — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Low German: Aadboor — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Low German: Eebeer — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Luxembourgish: Storch — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Macedonian: штрк (štrk) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Malagasy: falamakavava — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Malay: burung botak — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Malay: ranggung — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Maltese: ċikonja — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Māori: tāka — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Mingrelian: ყარყანტი (q̇arq̇anṭi) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Nanai: уйгун (ujgun) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Navajo: tsídii bidaanézí — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Northern Altai: шулан (šulan) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Norwegian Bokmål: stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Occitan: cigonha — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Old English: storc — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pannonian Rusyn: ґовля (govlja) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pashto: لکلک (laklák) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pashto: لګلګ (laglág) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pashto: تېکړک (tikṛák) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pashto: لبغ (labáǧ) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Pashto: کومل (kumál) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Persian: لکلک (lak-lak) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Piedmontese: sigogna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Polish: bocian — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Polish: bociek — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Polish: bocianica — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Portuguese: cegonha — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Romani: kokosturko — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Romanian: barză — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Romanian: barza-albă — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Romanian: cocostârc — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Romansh: cicogna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Russian: а́ист (áist) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Sardinian: cicògna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Sardinian: cicónnia — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Sardinian: tziconna — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Scottish Gaelic: corra-bhàn — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Serbo-Croatian: ро́да — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Serbo-Croatian: штр̑к — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Serbo-Croatian: róda — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Serbo-Croatian: štȓk — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Slovak: bocian — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Old Slovak: čáp — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Slovene: štọ̑rklja — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Lower Sorbian: bośon — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Upper Sorbian: baćon — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Southern Altai: чилен (čilen) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Spanish: cigüeña — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Svan: ჭო̈̄რ (č̣ȫr) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Swahili: kongoti — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Swedish: stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tajik: лаклак (laklak) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tamil: நாரை (nārai) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tatar: ләкләк (läkläk) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Thai: กระสา (grà-sǎa) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Turkish: leylek — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ottoman Turkish: لكلك (leklek, leylek) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Turkmen: leglek — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tyap: a̱ba̱lee — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Tyap: леглек — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ukrainian: леле́ка (leléka) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ukrainian: чорногу́з (čornohúz) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Ukrainian: бу́сел (búsel) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Urdu: سارس (sāras) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Uyghur: لەيلەك (leylek) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Uzbek: laylak — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Vietnamese: cò — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Volapük: stork — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Volapük: stor (Old Volapük) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Votic: kurki — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Votic: kurči (Kattila) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Welsh: ciconia — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Welsh: storc — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Yiddish: בוטשאַן (butshan) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Yiddish: בושל (bushl) — large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 送子鳥 /送子鸟 (sòng zǐ niǎo) — mythical bringer of babies
- Czech: čáp — mythical bringer of babies
- Czech: vrána — mythical bringer of babies
- Dutch: ooievaar — mythical bringer of babies
- Finnish: haikara — mythical bringer of babies
- French: cigogne — mythical bringer of babies
- Galician: cegoña — mythical bringer of babies
- German: Storch — mythical bringer of babies
- Polish: bocian — mythical bringer of babies
- Russian: а́ист (áist) — mythical bringer of babies
- Swedish: storken — mythical bringer of babies