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tinamou

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tinamou

Elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans).

Etymology

Borrowed from French tinamou, from Kari'na inamu (“great tinamou”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɪn.əˌmuː/

Noun

tinamou (plural tinamous)

Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

bird of the family Tinamidae

Bulgarian: тинаму n (tinamu)
Catalan: tinamú m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 䳍／𮭥 (gung¹)

Mandarin: 䳍／𮭥 (zh) (gōng)
Finnish: tinami (fi)
French: tinamou (fr) m
Italian: tinamo (it) m
Navajo: hodíłchʼiltah naaʼahóóhai
Polish: kusacz m
Portuguese: inambu m, tinamu m, macuco m
Quechua: yuthu
Romanian: tinamu m
Russian: тинаму́ m (tinamú)
Spanish: tinamú m
Swedish: tinamo (sv) c
Welsh: tinamŵ m

Anagrams

manitou

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Kari'na inamu (“great tinamou”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ti.na.mu/
Audio: (file)

Noun

tinamou m (plural tinamous)

tinamou (bird)

Descendants

→ Catalan: tinamú
→ English: tinamou
→ Finnish: tinami
→ Italian: tinamo
→ Portuguese: tinamu
→ Romanian: tinamu
→ Russian: тинаму (tinamu)
→ Spanish: tinamú

Further reading

“tinamou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

manitou

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