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English

A parrot.

Etymology

First attested in 1525. From perrot, either a diminutive of Pierre or a shortened form of perroquet. Compare and . A number of origins have been suggested for perroquet, such as Spanish periquito and Italian parrocchetto. The relationship between these various words is disputed. Replaced earlier popinjay.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: părʹət, МФА^(кључ): /ˈpæɹət/, /ˈpɛɹət/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: părʹət, МФА^(кључ): /ˈpæɹət/

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• Риме: -æɹət
• Хифенација: par‧rot

Noun

parrot (plural parrots)

1. A kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.

   Синоними: psittacine (bird of the order Psittaciformes), popinjay

   I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.

   • 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
2. (figuratively) A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.

   Синоними: copycat, mimic

   What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.

   • 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar,

     In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.

3. (archaic) A puffin.

   Синоними: sea-parrot, tomnoddy

4. (geology, obsolete) Channel coal.

Hyponyms

• (kind of bird): budgerigar, kakapo, lorikeet, lory, lovebird, macaw, parakeet, rosella

Derived terms

• blood parrot
• blood parrotfish
• burrowing parrot
• parrotbill
• parrot-billed sparrow (Passer gongonensis)
• parrot bush (Banksia sessilis)
• parrot coal
• parrot crossbill
• parrot cry
• parrot disease
• parroter
• parrot feather
• parrot fever
• parrotfinch
• parrotfish
• parrot flower (Alstroemeria psittacina)
• parrot green
• parrothouse
• parrotlet
• parrot lily (Alstroemeria psittacina)
• parrotling
• parrot pitcher plant (Sarracenia psittacina)
• parrot's beak orchid (Pterostylis nutans)
• parrot's bill
• parrot snake
• parrot toadstool (Hygrocybe psittacina)
• parrot waxcap (Hygrocybe psittacina)
• parrot weed
• parroty
• sea-parrot

 

Translations

kind of bird

• Afrikaans: papegaai (af)
• Akan: ako
• Albanian: papagall (sq) m
• Arabic: بَبَّغَاء‎ (ar) m or f (babbaḡāʾ)

  Egyptian Arabic: بغبغان‎ m (baḡbaḡan)

• Armenian: թութակ (hy) (tʿutʿak)
• Assamese: ভাটৌ (bhatou)
• Asturian: papagayu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: tutuquşu (az)
• Bashkir: тутыйғош (tutïyğoš)
• Basque: papagai
• Belarusian: папуга́й m (papuháj)
• Bengali: টিয়া (ṭiya)
• Bikol Central: ^{(please verify)} kulasisi
• Braj: कीर (kīr)
• Bulgarian: папага́л (bg) m (papagál)
• Burmese: ကြက်တူရွေး (my) (krakturwe:)
• Catalan: lloro (ca) m, papagai (ca) m
• Cebuano: periko
• Chamicuro: tulo
• Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏆᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ (tsisquagawonisgi)
• Chichewa: chinkhwe
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鸚鵡, 鹦鹉 (jing¹ mou⁵), 鸚哥, 鹦哥 (jing¹ go¹)

  Hakka: 鸚哥, 鹦哥 (ên-kô)

  Mandarin: 鸚鵡 (zh), 鹦鹉 (zh) (yīngwǔ), 能言鳥 (zh), 能言鸟 (zh) (néngyánniǎo), 鸚哥 (zh), 鹦哥 (zh) (yīnggē)

  Min Nan: 鸚鵡, 鹦鹉 (eng-bú), 鸚哥 (zh-min-nan), 鹦哥 (eng-ko), 鸚哥鳥, 鹦哥鸟 (eng-ko-chiáu)

• Cornish: papynjay m
• Crimean Tatar: papağan
• Czech: papoušek (cs) m
• Danish: papegøje (da) c
• Dutch: papegaai (nl) m
• Esperanto: papago (eo), psitako
• Estonian: papagoi
• Ewe: ako
• Faroese: pappageykur m
• Finnish: papukaija (fi)
• French: perroquet (fr) m
• Galician: papagaio m
• Georgian: თუთიყუში (tutiq̇uši)
• German: Papagei (de) m
• Greek: παπαγάλος (el) m (papagálos)

  Ancient: ψιττακός m (psittakós)

• Greenlandic: papikuujuk
• Gujarati: પોપટ (popaṭ)
• Haitian Creole: jako
• Hawaiian: pāloke, manu pāloke, manu aloha
• Hebrew: תֻּכִּי / תוכי‎ (he) m (túki)
• Hiligaynon: kulasisi
• Hindi: तोता (hi) m (totā), तोती (hi) f (totī), शुक (hi) m (śuk), सूआ (hi) m (sūā), सुग्गा (hi) m (suggā), कीर (hi) m (kīr)
• Hungarian: papagáj (hu)
• Icelandic: páfagaukur (is) m
• Ido: papagayo (io)
• Ilocano: bullilising, kalangay
• Indonesian: nuri (id)
• Interlingua: papagai
• Irish: pearóid f
• Italian: pappagallo (it) m
• Japanese: オウム (ja) (ōmu) (鸚鵡 (ja)) (large), インコ (ja) (inko) (鸚哥 (ja)) (small)
• Kannada: ಗಿಳಿ (kn) (giḷi)
• Kapampangan: kulasisi
• Kazakh: тоты (totı), тоты құс (totı qus)
• Khmer: សេក (km) (seek)
• Korean: 앵무새 (ko) (aengmusae)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: papaxan (ku)

  Sorani: توتی‎ (ku) (totî), بەبەغا‎ (ku) (bebegha)

• Kyrgyz: тоту (ky) (totu), тоту куш (totu kuş)
• Lao: ນົກແກ້ວ (lo) (nok kǣu), ແກ້ວ (lo) (kǣu)
• Latin: psittacus (la) m
• Latvian: papagailis m
• Limburgish: pappegei m
• Lithuanian: papūga (lt) f
• Low German: Papegai m, Papegoi m
• Macedonian: папага́л m (papagál)
• Malay: nuri (ms)
• Malayalam: തത്ത (ml) (tatta)
• Maltese: pappagall m
• Manx: parrad f, eean y çhiaulteyr m
• Maori: kākā
• Maranao: nori
• Marathi: पोपट m (popaṭ), शुक m (śuk), राघू m (rāghū)
• Mi'kmaq: pelagwet anim
• Mongolian: тоть (mn) (totʹ)
• Navajo: tsídii yáłtiʼí
• Norman: pèrrot m
• Northern Sami: Шаблон:t-needed
• Norwegian: papegøye (no) m
• Occitan: papagai (oc)
• Ojibwe: gaagiigidoo-bineshiinh
• Oriya: ଶୁଆ (or) (śua)
• Ossetian: тути (tuti)
• Pangasinan: kulasisi
• Pashto: توتي‎ (ps) m (toti)
• Persian: طوطی‎ (fa) (tuti), بپغا‎ (bepγā)
• Polish: papuga (pl) f
• Portuguese: papagaio (pt) m, louro (pt) m
• Rohingya: tuta
• Romagnol: papaghèli m
• Romanian: papagal (ro) m
• Russian: попуга́й (ru) m (popugáj)
• Sanskrit: शुक (sa) m (śuka), कीर (sa) m (kīra)
• Scottish Gaelic: pearraid f, pitheid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: папагај m, папига f

  Roman: papagaj (sh) m, papiga (sh) f

• Sicilian: pappagaddu (scn) m, pappaiaddu (scn) m, pappajaddu (scn) m
• Sindhi: طوطو‎ (sd) m
• Slovak: papagáj m
• Slovene: papiga (sl) f, papagaj m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: papagaj m

• Sotho: papagae
• Spanish: papagayo (es) m, loro (es) m, cotorra (es) f
• Swahili: (nc 9/10) kasuku (sw), (nc 9/10) dura, kwao (sw)
• Swedish: papegoja (sv) c
• Tagalog: loro, pariko, piriko, pikoy, abukay (white parrot)
• Tajik: тӯтӣ (tütī)
• Tamil: கிளி (ta) (kiḷi)
• Tatar: тутый (tt) (tutıy), тутый кош (tutıy qoş)
• Telugu: చిలుక (te) (ciluka), శుకము (te) (śukamu), చిలక (te) (cilaka), కీరము (te) (kīramu)
• Thai: แก้ว (th) (gɛ̂ɛo), นกแก้ว (th) (nók gɛ̂ɛo)
• Turkish: papağan (tr), dudu (tr)
• Turkmen: toty, totyguş
• Ukrainian: папу́га f (papúha)
• Urdu: طوطا‎ m (totā), طوطی‎ f (totī)
• Uyghur: تۇتى‎ (tuti)
• Uzbek: toʻti (uz)
• Vietnamese: vẹt (vi), két (vi)
• Volapük: papag (vo), psitak (vo)
• Welsh: parot m, parotau m pl
• West Frisian: pappegaai
• Wolof: seku bi
• Yiddish: פּאָפּוגײַ‎ m (popugay), פּאַפּוגע‎ f (papuge)
• Zazaki: dodo, dudık, papağan

person who repeats what was said

• Afrikaans: papegaai (af), na-aper (af)
• Albanian: papagall (sq)
• Arabic: بَبَّغَاء‎ (ar) m or f (babbaḡāʾ)
• Armenian: թութակ (hy) (tʿutʿak)
• Catalan: lloro (ca) m
• Czech: papoušek (cs) m
• Dutch: papegaai (nl) m, naprater m, na-aper (nl) m
• Finnish: papukaija (fi)
• Greek: παπαγάλος (el) m (papagálos) (papagálos)
• Icelandic: hermikráka f, eftirherma (is) f
• Italian: pappagallo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بەبەغا‎ (ku) (bebegha)

• Limburgish: pappegei m

• Macedonian: папага́л m (papagál)
• Marathi: पोपट m (popaṭ)
• Oriya: ଶୁଆ ଘୋଷା (or) (śua ghoṣa)
• Pashto: توتي‎ (ps) m (toti)
• Polish: papuga (pl) f
• Portuguese: papagaio (pt) m
• Romanian: papagal (ro) m
• Russian: попуга́й (ru) m (popugáj)
• Scottish Gaelic: pitheid
• Slovak: papagáj m
• Spanish: papagayo (es), loro (es) m, cotorra (es) f
• Swahili: kasuku (sw)
• Turkish: papağan (tr)

puffin — see puffin

channel coal — see channel coal

See also

• Polly
• popinjay
• Dead Parrot
• who's a pretty boy then

Verb

parrot (third-person singular simple present parrots, present participle parroting, simple past and past participle parroted or parrotted)

1. (transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
   • 1996, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address (15 June)

     So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.

   The interviewee merely parroted the views of her tabloid.

Quotations

• За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:parrot.

Synonyms

• (to repeat exactly): ape, copycat

Derived terms

• parroter
• parrot-fashion
• parrotism
• parrotize
• parrotry
• poll parrot

 

Translations

to repeat exactly without showing understanding

• Armenian: թութակի պես կրկնել (tʿutʿaki pes krknel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鸚鵡學舌 (zh), 鹦鹉学舌 (zh) (yīngwǔ xuéshé), 人云亦云 (zh) (rényúnyìyún)

• Czech: papouškovat
• Dutch: nazeggen (nl), napraten (nl), papegaaien (nl)
• Finnish: hokea (fi)
• French: perroqueter (fr)
• German: nachplappern (de)
• Greek: παπαγαλίζω (el) (papagalízo)
• Hebrew: חִיקָּה‎ (he) (khiká), חִיקָּה כְּתּוּכּיִ‎ (khiká k'túki)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} ripetere (it) (qualcosa) a pappagallo, ^{(please verify)} ripetere (it) (qualcosa) in modo pappagallesco

• Polish: papugować
• Portuguese: papaguear (pt)
• Romanian: papagaliza
• Russian: механи́чески повторя́ть (mexaníčeski povtorjátʹ), попуга́йничать (ru) (popugájničatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} ponavljati kao papagaj
• Slovak: papagájiť sa
• Spanish: hablar como un papagayo, hablar por boca de ganso
• Swahili: kasuku (sw)
• Turkish: papağanlamak
• Ukrainian: наслі́дувати (naslíduvaty), мавпува́ти (mavpuváty) (lit. 'to ape')

Anagrams

• raptor ^{(alphagram aoprrt)}