teal

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tiːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [tiːɫ]
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• General-American: /til/
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• rhymes with -iːl
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• homophone: Teal
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• homophone: teel
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• homophone: Teale
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• homophone: Teel
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• homophone: Theel
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• homophone: Theil
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• homophone: Thiel
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• homophone: Thiele
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• homophone: Tiel
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• homophone: til
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• CMU ARPABET: T IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).

From teal, a nickname given to someone considered to resemble this duck.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: синьо-зелен (sinjo-zelen) — colour
• Catalan: xarxet — colour
• Danish: petroleumsblå — colour
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen — colour
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroene — colour
• Esperanto: verdblua — colour
• Esperanto: turkisa — colour
• Esperanto: glaŭka — colour
• Faroese: grønbláur — colour
• Finnish: tumman sinivihreä — colour
• Finnish: sinivihreä — colour
• French: sarcelle — colour
• Georgian: ფირუზისფერი (piruzisperi) — colour
• German: petrolblau — colour
• German: petrol — colour
• Indonesian: itik — colour
• Irish: téal — colour
• Italian: foglia di tè — colour
• Italian: turchese scuro — colour
• Latin: glaucus — colour
• Māori: kārikiōrangi — colour
• Polish: morski — colour
• Portuguese: azul-petróleo — colour
• Romanian: albastru-verzui — colour
• Romanian: albastru petrol — colour
• Slovene: turkizen — colour
• Spanish: azul petróleo — colour
• Spanish: verde azulado — colour
• Turkish: petrol yeşili — colour
• Turkish: ördekbaşı — colour
• Albanian: bajukë — duck
• Arabic: شرشير (šaršīr) — duck
• Arabic: حَذَف (ḥaḏaf) — duck
• Basque: zertzeta — duck
• Bulgarian: примкар (primkar) — duck
• Catalan: xarxet comú — duck
• Chinese Mandarin: 水鴨 /水鸭 (shuǐyā) — duck
• Czech: čírka — duck
• Dutch: taling — duck
• Esperanto: kreko — duck
• Esperanto: krekanaso — duck
• Faroese: krikkont — duck
• Finnish: tavi — duck
• French: sarcelle — duck
• Galician: cerceta — duck
• Galician: charneco — duck
• Galician: cerceta eurasiática — duck
• Georgian: იხვინჯა (ixvinǯa) — duck
• German: Krickente — duck
• German: Kriekente — duck
• Greek: αγριόπαπια (agriópapia) — duck
• Ancient Greek: κέρκηρις (kérkēris) — duck
• Greenlandic: qeerlutoornaq — duck
• Hungarian: réce — duck
• Ido: sarcelo — duck
• Indonesian: itik — duck
• Irish: praslacha — duck
• Italian: alzavola — duck
• Japanese: 小鴨 (kogamo) — duck
• Korean: 쇠오리 (soe'ori) — duck
• Luxembourgish: Wanterint — duck
• Malayalam: ഇരണ്ട (iraṇṭa) — duck
• Māori: tētē — duck
• Norwegian Bokmål: krikkand — duck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krikkand — duck
• Persian: خوتکا (xutkâ) — duck
• Polish: cyraneczka — duck
• Portuguese: patinho — duck
• Portuguese: marrequinha — duck
• Portuguese: cerceta — duck
• Romanian: lișiță — duck
• Romanian: sarselă — duck
• Russian: чиро́к (čirók) — duck
• Serbo-Croatian: kržulja — duck
• Spanish: cerceta — duck
• Spanish: barraquete — duck
• Spanish: zarceta — duck
• Spanish: trullo — duck
• Swedish: kricka — duck
• Turkish: çakırkanat — duck
• Turkish: çamurcun — duck
• Venetan: sarsegna — duck
• Vietnamese: mòng két — duck
• Volapük: krek — duck
• Welsh: corhwyaid — duck
• Arabic: شرشيري (šaršīriyy) — colour
• Arabic: زِنْجَاري (zinjāri) — colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 鴨綠色 /鸭绿色 (yālǜsè) — colour
• Danish: petroleum — colour
• Dutch: appelblauwzeegroen — colour
• Esperanto: verdbluo — colour
• Esperanto: turkiskoloro — colour
• Faroese: grønbláur litur — colour
• French: bleu sarcelle — colour
• French: bleu canard — colour
• Galician: azul petróleo — colour
• German: blaugrün — colour
• Greek: βαθυκύανο (vathykýano) — colour
• Hebrew: טוּרְקִיז (turqíz) — colour
• Hungarian: kékeszöld — colour
• Hungarian: récezöld — colour
• Irish: téal — colour
• Italian: blu petrolio — colour
• Japanese: 鴨の羽色 (kamo no ha-iro) — colour
• Latin: glaucus — colour
• Persian: سبز دودی (sabz-e dudi) — colour
• Romanian: albastru petrol — colour
• Russian: зеленова̀то-голубо́й (zelenovàto-golubój) — colour
• Russian: цвет морской волны (cvet morskoj volny) — colour
• Slovene: turkizna — colour
• Spanish: azul petróleo — colour
• Spanish: verde azulado — colour
• Swedish: turkos — colour
• Swedish: teal — colour
• Turkish: teal — colour
• Ukrainian: блаки́тно-зеле́ний (blakýtno-zelényj) — colour
• Vietnamese: xanh — colour