noun
Meaning 1
A female turkey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
turkey-hen
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History
Etymology
Equivalent to turkey + hen; see turkey.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: pulëhine — female turkey
- San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: san — female turkey
- Asturian: pava — female turkey
- Catalan: polla díndia — female turkey
- Catalan: tita — female turkey
- Chinese Mandarin: 母火雞 /母火鸡 (mǔhuǒjī) — female turkey
- Chinese Mandarin: 雌火雞 /雌火鸡 (cí huǒjī) — female turkey
- Dutch: kalkoenhen — female turkey
- Dutch: vrouwelijke kalkoen — female turkey
- Esperanto: meleagrino — female turkey
- Finnish: kalkkunakana — female turkey
- French: dinde — female turkey
- French: dinde femelle — female turkey
- German: Truthenne — female turkey
- German: Pute — female turkey
- German: Trute — female turkey
- German: weibliches Truthuhn — female turkey
- Hopi: koyong.wùuti — female turkey
- Hungarian: nőstény pulyka — female turkey
- Hungarian: pulyka tyúkja — female turkey
- Coatlán Mixe: tuuttöxy — female turkey
- Coatlán Mixe: tuuttaj — female turkey
- Classical Nahuatl: tōtolin — female turkey
- Classical Nahuatl: cihuātōtolin — female turkey
- Guerrero-Nahuatl: totolin — female turkey
- Mecayapan Nahuatl: sihua̱to̱toli̱n — female turkey
- Northern Puebla Nahuatl: lamahtotoli — female turkey
- Tetelcingo-Nahuatl: sohuatutoli̱ — female turkey
- Tlamacazapa Nahuatl: pipila — female turkey
- Polish: indyczka — female turkey
- Portuguese: perua — female turkey
- Romanian: curcă — female turkey
- Russian: инде́йка (indéjka) — female turkey
- Russian: индю́шка (indjúška) — female turkey
- Scottish Gaelic: cearc-Fhrangach — female turkey
- Spanish: pava — female turkey
- Spanish: guajolota — female turkey
- Spanish: totola — female turkey
- Spanish: cócona — female turkey
- Spanish: güila — female turkey
- Spanish: pípila — female turkey
- Spanish: cune — female turkey
- Swedish: kalkonhöna — female turkey
- Highland Totonac: snat — female turkey
- Papantla Totonac: xasnati chahuilá — female turkey
- Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac: snati — female turkey
- Chicahuaxtla Triqui: guni3 — female turkey
- San Juan Guelavía Zapotec: bɨdyladx — female turkey
- Yatzachi Zapotec: bechjw bna — female turkey
- Yatzachi Zapotec: bna — female turkey
- Zoogocho Zapotec: bechjw bnaꞌ — female turkey
- Zoogocho Zapotec: bnaꞌ — female turkey
- Copainalá Zoque: tuꞌcmama — female turkey
- Francisco León Zoque: tuꞌnuc — female turkey
- Francisco León Zoque: tuꞌnchuꞌve — female turkey
- Rayón Zoque: yomgaꞌñchi — female turkey