puffin

English

Etymology

A puffin

FromMiddle Englishpoffin,poffoun,puffon,equivalent topuff+‎-ing,or perhaps ultimately fromMiddle Cornish(compareBretonpoc'han(“puffin”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈpʌfɪn/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-ʌfɪn

Noun

puffin(pluralpuffins)

1. (nowobsolete)Theyoungof theManx shearwater(Puffinus puffinus), especiallyeatenasfood.[14th–19th c.]
2. TheAtlantic puffin(Fratercula arctica) or(by extension)any of the other various smallseabirdsof thegeneraFraterculaandLundathat areblack and whitewith abrightly-colouredbeak.[from 17th c.]

   Synonyms:(Britain, regional)pope,sea-parrot

   • 1894May,Rudyard Kipling,“The White Seal”, inThe Jungle Book,London, New York, N.Y.:Macmillan and Co.,publishedJune 1894,→OCLC,page110:

     Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and thePuffins,who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

3. (entomology)Any of variousAfricanandAsianpieridbutterfliesof the genusAppias.Somespeciesof this genus are also known asalbatrosses.
4. (obsolete)Apuffball.

Derived terms

• Atlantic puffin(Fratercula arctica)
• common puffin(Fratercula arctica)
• crested puffin(Fratercula cirrhata)
• horned puffin(Fratercula corniculata)
• puffin crossing
• puffinet
• puffinry
• puffling
• tufted puffin(Fratercula cirrhata)

Related terms

• fraterculine

Translations

Fratercula arctica

• Belarusian:ту́пікm(túpik)
• Bulgarian:тупикm(tupik),кайраf(kajra)
• Catalan:fraret(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Hải anh／Hải anh(hoi²jing¹)

  Mandarin:Hải anh／Hải anh(hǎiyīng)

• Cornish:nathm,popam
• Czech:papuchalkm
• Danish:lunde(da)c,søpapegøjec
• Dutch:papegaaiduiker(nl)m,alk(nl)m
• Esperanto:fraterkulo
• Faroese:lundi(fo)m
• Finnish:lunni(fi)
• French:macareux(fr)m
• Galician:arao(gl)m
• German:Lund(de)m,Lundevogelm(genera Fratercula),Papageitaucher(de)m,Papageientaucher(de)m(F. arctica),Hundlundm(F. corniculata),Gelbschopflundm(F. cirrhata),Nashornalkm(Cerorhinca monocerata)
• Greek:φρατέρκουλαf(fratérkoula)
• Greenlandic:qilanngaq
• Hungarian:lunda(hu)
• Icelandic:lundi(is)m
• Irish:puifínm,fuipínm
• Italian:pulcinella di mare(it)m
• Japanese:Giác mục điểu(ツノメドリ,tsunomedori)
• Manx:pibbinf
• Navajo:tsídii naʼałkǫ́ʼígíí
• Norman:gode à rouoge béf(Jersey),poffînm(Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:lunde

• Old Norse:lundim
• Polish:maskonur(pl)m
• Portuguese:papagaio-do-mar(pt)m
• Romanian:furtunar(ro)m
• Romansch:sfunsellaf
• Russian:ту́пик(ru)m(túpik),топо́рик(ru)m(topórik)
• Scots:(tammie) norrie
• Scottish Gaelic:buthaidf,peata-ruadhm
• Serbo-Croatian:tupik(sh)m
• Slovak:alka bielobradáf,mníšikm
• Slovene:njórkaf
• Spanish:frailecillo(es)m
• Swedish:lunnefågel(sv)
• Turkish:fratercula
• Welsh:pâlm

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishpuffin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/py.fɛ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

puffinm(pluralpuffins)

1. shearwater

Further reading

• “puffin”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.