finch

finch

See also: Finch

English

A finch, Fringilla coelebs

Etymology

From Middle English fynch, from Old English finċ, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek σπίγγος (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian пе́нка (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit फिङ्गक (phiṅgaka, “drongo, shrike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪnt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

Noun

finch (plural finches)

1. Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis. syn. Fringilla carduelis).
2. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
3. Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

Derived terms

• Abert's finch (Pipilo aberti)
• Baltimore finch
• Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
• blue finch (Porphyrospiza caerulescens)
• bramble finch (Fringilla montifringilla)
• brambling finch
• bullfinch (Pyrrhula spp.)
• canary finch (Serinus spp.)
• Cassin's finch (Haemorhous cassinii)
• chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
• cherry finch (Coccothraustes vulgaris)
• citril finch (Carduelis citrinella)
• Cocos finch (Pinaroloxias inomata)
• cold-finch
• copper finch (Fringilla coelebs)
• Corsican finch (Carduelis corsicana)
• crimson-browed finch (Carpodacus subhimachalus)
• crimson finch (Neochmia phaeton)
• crimson-winged finch (Rhodopechys spp.)
• cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis)
• cut-throat finch (Amadina fasciata)
• Darwin's finch (Geospizinae spp.)
• desert finch (Rhodospiza obsoleta)
• double-barred finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)
• estrilid finch (Estrildidae spp.)
• European finch (Chloris spp.)
• fallow finch (Saxicola oenanthe)
• fire finch (Pyromelana spp., Euplectes spp.)
• Galapagos finch (Geospizinae spp.)
• goldfinch (Carduelis spp., Spinus spp.)
• gold-naped finch, golden-naped finch (Pyrrhoplectes epauletta)
• Gough finch (Rowetha goughensis)
• Gouldian finch, Gould's finch, Lady Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
• greenfinch (Chloris spp.)
• hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
• house finch
• masked finch (Poephila personata)
• melba finch
• mountain finch (Leucosticte spp.; Fringilla montifringilla)
• oriole finch (Linurgus olivaceus)
• owl finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)
• painted finch
• purple finch
• rainbow finch (Chloebia gouldiae)
• red-browed finch (Neochmia temporalis)
• rosefinch (Carpodacus spp.)
• rosy finch (Leucosticte spp.)
• scarlet finch (Carpodacus sipahi)
• society finch (Lonchura striata domestica)
• spectacled finch (Callacanthis burtoni)
• star finch
• trumpeter finchBucanetes githagineus)
• weaver finch (Ploceidae spp.)
• yellow-rumped finch
• zebra finch

 

Translations

any bird of the family Fringillidae

Albanian: trishtil (sq), fink, cinkë (sq) f Arabic: شُرْشُور‎ m (šuršūr), بِرْقِش‎ m (birqiš) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: зя́блік m (zjáblik), берасця́нка f (bjerascjánka) Bulgarian: чи́нка (bg) f (čínka) Catalan: pinsà (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 燕雀 (zh) (yànquè), 雀 (zh) (què) Danish: finke c Dutch: vink (nl) m Esperanto: fringo Estonian: vint (et) Faroese: ígða f Finnish: peippo (fi) French: pinson (fr) m Gagauz: ispinoz Galician: pisco (gl) m, sentasín m, pimpín (gl) m, chinchón (gl) m, peu (gl) m, tinco m, trigau m, gamacho m, riorí m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Fink (de) m Greek: σπίνος (el) m (spínos), σπίζα (el) f (spíza) Ancient: σπίνος m (spínos), σπίζα f (spíza) Hebrew: פרוש‎ (he) Hungarian: pinty (hu) Icelandic: finka (is) f Irish: glasán m Italian: fringuello (it), canarino (it), cardellino (it) Latin: fringilla f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: kikilis (lt) m Low German: Fink m Malay: please add this translation if you can Manx: corkan m Middle English: fynch Norwegian: Bokmål: fink (no) m, finke (no) m Nynorsk: fink m Occitan: quinçard m, pinçard (oc) m, pinçan m Old English: finċ m Persian: سهره‎ (fa) (sehre), فنچ‎ (fa) (fenč), ونج‎ (fa) (venj) (archaic) Polish: zięba (pl) f, ziarnojad m Portuguese: fringilídeo (pt) m Romanian: cinteză (ro) f, fringilidă f, fringilid (ro) n Russian: зя́блик (ru) m (zjáblik) Slovak: pinka f Slovene: ščinkavec (sl) m Spanish: pinzón m Swedish: fink (sv) c Tiwi: wutirri Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: اسپنوز‎ (ispinoz) Modern Turkish: ispinoz (tr) Ukrainian: зя́блик (uk) m (zjáblyk) Venetian: finco (vec) Volapük: frin (vo) Welsh: pinc (cy) m or f, llinos f, pila m, pilaon m pl

See also

• aberdevine
• amadavat
• avadavat
• brambling
• canary
• crossbill (Loxia spp.)
• euphonia
• redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
• serin
• siskin

Verb

finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

References

• finch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• finch at OneLook Dictionary Search
• finch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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Noun

finch

1. Alternative form of fynch