tinamou

English

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)

1. 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

• tinamid
• tinamiforme

Derived terms

• Andean tinamou
• barred tinamou
• Bartlett's tinamou
• Berlepsch's tinamou
• black-capped tinamou
• black tinamou
• Brazilian tinamou
• brown tinamou
• brushland tinamou
• Chilean tinamou
• Choco tinamou
• cinereous tinamou
• curve-billed tinamou
• dwarf tinamou
• elegant crested tinamou
• great tinamou
• grey-legged tinamou
• grey tinamou
• highland tinamou
• hooded tinamou
• Huayco tinamou
• little tinamou
• ornate tinamou
• pale-browed tinamou
• Patagonian tinamou
• puna tinamou
• Quebracho crested tinamou
• red-legged tinamou
• red-winged tinamou
• rusty tinamou
• slaty-breasted tinamou
• small-billed tinamou
• solitary tinamou
• Taczanowski's tinamou
• Tataupa tinamou
• tawny-breasted tinamou
• Tepui tinamou
• thicket tinamou
• undulated tinamou
• variegated tinamou
• white-throated tinamou
• yellow-legged tinamou

 

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:

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Noun

tinamou m (plural tinamous)

1. 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