faisan
See also: faisán and faîsan
French
![](Images/wiktionary/Male_and_female_pheasant.jpg.webp)
faisans (mâle et femelle)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French faisan, from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fə.zɑ̃/
faisan (file)
Noun
faisan m (plural faisans, feminine faisane or faisande)
- pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae)
- cock pheasant (male pheasant)
Synonyms
(male pheasant)
- coq faisan
- faisan mâle
- mâle du faisan
Derived terms
- faisandeau (“young pheasant”)
Descendants
- → Romanian: fazan
Further reading
- “faisan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).
Noun
faisan m (plural faisans)
- pheasant
Descendants
- French: faisan
- → Romanian: fazan
- Norman: faîsan (Jersey)
Old French
![](Images/wiktionary/Common_pheasant_(Phasianus_colchicus)_male.jpg.webp)
Li faisans
Alternative forms
- faisant, faisen, feisan, feisant, fesan
- feisaun, fesaun, fesaunt (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).
The expected from would be *faisain, *feisain; the form in -an is probably influenced by Old Occitan faisan or by the word's Latin etymon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fai̯ˈzan/, /fəˈzan/
Noun
faisan m (oblique plural faisans, nominative singular faisans, nominative plural faisan)
- pheasant
Descendants
- Middle French: faisan
- French: faisan
- → Romanian: fazan
- Norman: faîsan (Jersey)
- French: faisan
- → Middle English: fesaunt, fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
- English: pheasant
- → Welsh: ffesant
- Scots: pheasant
- English: pheasant
- → Old Leonese:
- Asturian: faisán
- → Middle Dutch: faisant, fasaen
- Dutch: fazant, faisant
- Afrikaans: fisant
- Dutch: fazant, faisant
- → Old Portuguese:
- Galician: faisán
- Portuguese: faisão
- → Old Spanish: faysan
- → Spanish: faisán
- → Tagalog: paysan
- → Spanish: faisán