mallard

English

A male mallard

A female mallard with her ducklings

Alternative forms

maudelard, mawdelard (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English malard, mawlard, mawdelard, from Old French malart, mallart (“wild duck”), possibly derived from the Old High German Madelhart (proper name) (whence the English forms maudelard, mawdelard); or alternatively from Old French male, malle (“male”) +‎ -ard.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.ɑː(ɹ)d/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmælɚd/
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Rhymes: -ælɑː(ɹ)d, -ælə(ɹ)d

Noun

mallard (plural mallards or mallard)

Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

Translations

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos

Albanian: rosa e vëndit
Assamese: পাতিহাঁহ (patihãh), আমৰ’লীয়া হাঁহ (amorölia hãh)
Azerbaijani: vəhşi ördək
Belarusian: крыжанка (kryžanka)
Bengali: নীলশির (nīlôśir)
Breton: houad-korz
Bulgarian: дива патица (diva patica), зеленоглавка (zelenoglavka)
Catalan: ànec collverd m, collblau m (male), àneda rossa f (female)
Chechen: акха бад (aqa bad)
Classical Nahuatl: zōlcanauhtli
Czech: kachna divoká (cs)
Danish: gråand (da)
Dutch: wilde eend f
Erzya: матярка (matjarka)
Esperanto: platbeka anaso
Estonian: sinikael part
Faroese: villdunna
Finnish: sinisorsa (fi), heinäsorsa (fi)
French: colvert (fr) m, canard colvert (fr) m, canard sauvage (fr) m
Friulian: masurin, mazar, mazorin, raze grande
Galician: lavanco (gl)
Georgian: გარეული იხვი (gareuli ixvi)
German: Stockente (de) f
Greek: αγριόπαπια (el) f (agriópapia)
Greenlandic: qeerlutooq
Haida:
Northern Haida: x̱aa
Southern Haida: x̱aax̱a
Hebrew: ברכיה‎ (he) f (brekhiyá)
Hungarian: tőkés réce (hu), vadkacsa (hu)
Icelandic: stokkönd (is)
Inari Sami: tuáršu, stuorrâ vuonjâč
Inupiaq: ukhiukhiuq
Irish: lacha (ga)
Italian: anatra selvatica f
Jamtish: grasǫnd f, błáhałs m
Japanese: 真鴨 (magamo)
Kashmiri: پٔچھِن‎ m (pạchin), (male mallard) نِلٕج‎ m (nilụj), (female mallard) تھُج‎‎ f (thuj‎)
Kawaiisu: kurasɨni
Komi-Permyak: горда (gorda)
Komi-Zyrian: горда (gorda)
Korean: 물오리 (murori), 청둥오리 (cheongdung'ori)
Kott: agaŋa
Kumyk: къырбабиш (qırbabiş)
Ladin: anera salvaria
Latvian: meža pīle, mercene
Lithuanian: didżioji antis
Lule Sami: stuorvuojatjis
Macedonian: дива патка (diva patka)
Maltese: kuluvert
Mansi: киртыг (kirtyg)
Marathi: चतुरंग बदक (caturaṅga badak)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: кугылудо (kugyludo)
Western Mari: лӧркӓ (lörkä), когогек лыды (kogogek lydy)
Middle English: malard
Navajo: naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ dootłʼizhí
Northern Sami: duoršu
Norwegian: stokkand
Occitan: ànec coll-verd
Polish: kaczka krzyżówka (pl)
Portuguese: pato-real m
Romani: divlio-ratsoy m, divlio-ratsa f
Romanian: rață sălbatică (ro) f, rață mare f
Romansch: anda selvadia f
Russian: обыкнове́нная кря́ква f (obyknovénnaja krjákva)
Sami: duoršu
Sardinian: anadi conca birdi, conchirde, testirde
Scots: muir-deuk
Scottish Gaelic: lach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: патка глувара
Latin: divlja patka (sh)
Slovak: kačica divá (sk)
Slovene: mlakarica, divja raca
Southern Ohlone: cipituk
Spanish: pato real (es) m, ánade real m or f
Swedish: gräsand (sv) c
Tagalog: papaw
Turkish: yeşilbaş (tr)
Turkmen: ýaşylbaş
Udmurt: сюлы (sjuly)
Ukrainian: крижень (uk) (kryženʹ)
Ume Sami: lággiehtse
Upper Sorbian: dźiwja kačka
Venetian: masorin
Welsh: hwyaden wyllt
West Frisian: wylde ein
Westrobothnian: gräsan f, blahåls m

Middle English

Noun

mallard

Alternative form of malard