Apparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls having a distinctive “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” sound, possibly influenced by chick or chicken.
chickadee (plural chickadees)
- A small passerine bird (songbird) of the genus Parus or the family Paridae.
- Synonyms: tit, titmouse
- Affectionate term of address.
songbird
- Afrikaans: mees (af)
- Albanian: trishtil (sq) m, tringec (sq) m, cinkë (sq) f
- Armenian: երաշտահավ (hy) (eraštahav)
- Asturian: branín (ast)
- Belarusian: сіні́ца f (siníca), гіль m (hilʹ)
- Bulgarian: сини́гер (bg) m (siníger)
- Catalan: mallerenga (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 山雀 (zh) (shānquè)
- Czech: sýkora (cs) f, sýkorka f
- Danish: mejse (da) c
- Dutch: mees (nl) f
- Esperanto: paruo (eo)
- Estonian: tihane (et)
- Faroese: títa f
- Finnish: tiainen (fi) (Paridae); talitiainen (fi) (Parus)
- French: mésange (fr) f
- Galician: meixengra f
- German: Meise (de) f
- Greek: παπαδίτσα (el) f (papadítsa)
- Hindi: रामगंगरा (rāmgaṅgrā)
- Hungarian: cinege (hu), cinke (hu)
- Ingrian: sinitsa, keltarinta, sinicka
- Irish: méantán m
- Italian: cincia (it) f
- Japanese: 四十雀 (ja) (shijūkara), シジュウカラ (ja) (shijūkara)
- Korean: 박새 (ko) (baksae)
- Latin: parus
- Lithuanian: zylė (lt) f
- Low German: Mees’ f, Meesch f
- Lutshootseed: c̓əlc̓əlkayus
- Luxembourgish: Mees f
- Macedonian: сипка f (sipka), сенка f (senka)
- Mohawk: tsiktsiré:re
- Navajo: chʼíshiibeezhii
- Norwegian: meis (no) m
- Ojibwe: gijigijigaaneshiinh
- Panamint: annakki
- Persian: چرخریسک
- Polish: sikora (pl) f
- Portuguese: chapim (pt) m
- Romanian: pițigoi (ro) m
- Romansch: maset m
- Russian: сини́ца (ru) f (siníca), га́ичка (ru) f (gáička)
- Sami:
- Skolt Sami: ceeʒʒaž
- Scottish Gaelic: cailleachag f, currac-baintighearna f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сеница f, сјеница f
- Roman: senica (sh) f, sjenica (sh) f
- Sicilian: cacasipala (scn) f
- Slovak: sýkorka (sk) f
- Slovene: sinica (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sykora, sykorka
- Upper Sorbian: sykorka, sykora
- Spanish: paro carbonero m, carbonero (es) m
- Swedish: mes (sv) c, tita (sv) c
- Ukrainian: сини́ця f (synýcja)
- Vietnamese: bạc má
- Volapük: parud (vo)
- Walloon: mazindje (wa) f
- West Frisian: mies
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