chaffinch

English

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chaffinch

Etymology

A male chaffinch

Given by the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary chaff +‎ finch,^[1] but more recently the first element has been argued to derive from the same root as Old English cǣfed 'ornamented' and cǣfing 'hair-ornament', thus meaning 'ornamented finch, colourful finch'.^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

chaffinch (plural chaffinches)

A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family, found throughout Europe and eastward to Iran and eastern Mediterranean coastlands.

Derived terms

Translations

bird

Albanian: borës (sq) m, avdosë f, borak (sq) m, zborak (sq) m, fink m
Armenian: ամուրիկ (amurik)
Asturian: pimpín (ast), gurrión pintu (ast)
Breton: pint m, pint kabell louet m
Bulgarian: сипка f (sipka)
Catalan: pinsà (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蒼頭燕雀 / 苍头燕雀 (cāngtóu yànquè)
Czech: pěnkava (cs) f
Danish: bogfinke (da)
Dutch: vink (nl), boekvink (nl)
Esperanto: fringo
Faroese: bókígða f
Finnish: peippo (fi)
French: pinson (fr) m, pinson des arbres (fr) m
Galician: pimpín (gl) m
Georgian: ნიბლია (niblia), სკვინჩა (sḳvinča), ნარჩიტა (narčiṭa)
German: Buchfink (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: σπίζα f (spíza), σπίνος m (spínos)
Hungarian: erdei pinty (hu)
Icelandic: bókfinka (is) f
Irish: rí rua m
Italian: fringuello (it)
Japanese: 頭青花鶏 (zuao atori)
Korean: 푸른머리되새 (ko) (pureunmeoridoesae)
Latgalian: žubeite f
Latvian: žubīte f
Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Poufank (lb) m
Macedonian: сне́гар m (snégar), си́пка f (sípka)
Maori: pahirini
Norman: rossîngno m
Northern Sami: beibboš
Norwegian: bokfink (no)
Occitan: pinçard (oc) m, pinçan m, pinçon (oc) m, quinçon (oc) m
Polish: zięba (pl) f
Portuguese: tentilhão (pt) m, chupim (pt) m
Romanian: cinteză (ro) f
Russian: зя́блик (ru) m (zjáblik)
Scottish Gaelic: breacan-beithe m
Serbo-Croatian: zeba (sh) f
Slovak: pinka f
Spanish: pinzón vulgar m
Swedish: bofink (sv)
Ukrainian: зя́блик (uk) m (zjáblyk)
Welsh: asgell fraith f

References

^ "chaffinch, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/30176. Accessed 1 September 2022.
^ Carole Hough, 'Cheveley and Chaff Hall: A Reconsideration of OE ceaf in Place-Names', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 43 (1999), 21–32; DOI: 10.1484/j.nms.3.291.

[1] "chaffinch, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2022, www.oed.com/view/Entry/30176. Accessed 1 September 2022.

[2] Carole Hough, 'Cheveley and Chaff Hall: A Reconsideration of OE ceaf in Place-Names', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 43 (1999), 21–32; DOI: 10.1484/j.nms.3.291.

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