Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).
yellowhammer (plural yellowhammers)
- A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.
- Synonyms: yellow bunting, ammer, yelamber, yeorling, yowley, yeldrin, yite
- (US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus.
- A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.
a passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella
- Asturian: mederizu (ast), pardomostu (ast)
- Belarusian: стрынатка f (strynatka), аўсянка звычайна f (aŭsjanka zvyčajna)
- Bulgarian: жълтурка (žǎlturka), овесарка f (ovesarka)
- Carpathian Rusyn: жовтурка f (žovturka)
- Catalan: verderola, hortolà groc
- Czech: strnad (cs)
- Danish: gulspurv (da) c
- Dutch: geelgors (nl) f
- Esperanto: flava emberizo
- Estonian: talvike
- Faroese: gulspurvur m
- Finnish: keltasirkku (fi)
- French: bruant jaune (fr) m
- Galician: pimpís m, escribenta amarela f, escribán (gl) m, escribenta (gl) f
- German: Goldammer (de) f
- Alemannic German: Geelamere f, Goldamere f
- Hungarian: citromsármány (hu)
- Inari Sami: fiskiscissááš
- Ingrian: keltacirkkulain
- Italian: zigolo giallo
- Japanese: 黄青鵐 (kiaoji)
- Kashubian: zwëczajny żółtobrzuszk m
- Korean: 노랑멧새 (norangmetsae)
- Latvian: dzeltenā stērste f
- Lithuanian: geltonoji starta
- Lule Sami: visskátsihtse
- Macedonian: жолтогрлата стрнарка f (žoltogrlata strnarka)
- Maltese: durrajsa safra f
- Northern Sami: fiskescihci
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gulspurv m
- Nynorsk: gulsporv m
- Old English: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: trznadel (pl) m
- Portuguese: verdelha (pt) f, escrevedeira-amarela f
- Romanian: presură galbenă
- Russian: овся́нка обыкновенная (ovsjánka obyknovennaja)
- Scottish Gaelic: buidheag-bhealaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian: стрнадица жутовољка f, strnadica žutovoljka (sh) f
- Slovak: strnádka obyčajná f, strnádka žltá f
- Slovene: rumeni strnad m
- Spanish: escribano cerillo m
- Swedish: gulsparv (sv) c
- Ukrainian: вівсянка звичайна f (vivsjanka zvyčajna)
- Vilamovian: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: penfelyn (cy) m
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a native or resident of the American state of Alabama