pheasant

English

A common pheasant.

Etymology

From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛzənt/
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Rhymes: -ɛzənt

Noun

pheasant (plural pheasants)

A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 80:
  Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.

Derived terms

pea-pheasant
Pheasant coronavirus
pheasant coucal
pheasant cuckoo
pheasant pigeon
pheasant-tailed jacana
pheasant under glass
pheasant's eye
pheasantless
pheasantlike
pheasantry

Descendants

→ Welsh: ffesant

Translations

bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food

Albanian: fazani
Arabic: تَدْرُج‎ m (tadruj)
Armenian: փասիան (hy) (pʿasian)
Asturian: faisán m
Azerbaijani: qırqovul (az)
Basque: faisai (eu)
Belarusian: фаза́н m (fazán)
Breton: fazan-kolc’his
Bulgarian: фазан (bg) m (fazan)
Burmese: ရစ် (my) (rac)
Burushaski: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: faisà (ca) m
Chechen: аккха нӏаьна (aqqa nˀäna)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 野雞／野鸡 (zh) (yějī)
Czech: bažant (cs) m
Danish: fasan (da)
Dutch: fazant (nl) m
Esperanto: fazano
Estonian: faasan
Faroese: fasánur
Finnish: fasaani (fi)
French: faisan (fr) m
Friulian: fasan
Galician: faisán (gl) m
Georgian: ხოხობი (ka) (xoxobi)
German: Fasan (de) m, Fasanenhuhn n
Greek: φασιανός (el) m (fasianós)
Ancient: φᾱσιᾱνός m (phāsiānós), τέταρος m (tétaros)
Hungarian: fácán (hu)
Icelandic: fashani
Ido: fazano (io)
Indonesian: pegar (id)
Irish: piasún
Italian: fagiano (it) m
Japanese: キジ (ja) (kiji), 雉 (ja) (きじ, kiji), 雉子 (きじ, kiji)
Kazakh: қырғауыл (qyrğauyl)
Korean: 꿩 (ko) (kkwong)
Kumyk: къыртавукъ (qırtawuq)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قەرقاوِڵ‎ (qerqawill), چۆڕ‎ (ku) (çorr)
Northern Kurdish: qerqewil (ku) m, çor (ku) m
Ladin: fasan
Latin: phāsiānus (la) m
Latvian: fazāns m
Lithuanian: fazanas (lt) m
Low German: Fasaan m
Luxembourgish: Fasan m
Macedonian: фазан m (fazan)
Maltese: faġan
Maori: peihana
Middle English: fesaunt
Mingrelian: ხოხობი (xoxobi), ქილორი (kilori)
Mongolian: гургуул (mn) (gurguul)
Nanticoke: uh!-quas-capitz
Navajo: zéédzísgaii
Norman: faîsan m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fasan
Nynorsk: fasan
Occitan: faisan (oc)
Old English: wōrhana m
Ottoman Turkish: سوكلن‎ (söğlün), تذرو‎ (tezerv)
Persian: تذرو‎ (fa) (tazarv), قرقاول‎ (fa) (qarqâvol)
Polish: bażant (pl)
Portuguese: faisão (pt) m
Punjabi: ਚਕੋਰ m (cakōr)
Romagnol: fașân m
Romani: dropya f
Romanian: fazan (ro) m
Romansch: fasan
Russian: фаза́н (ru) m (fazán)
Sami:
Northern Sami: fasána
Sardinian: pidraxu, fagianu, fazanu
Scottish Gaelic: easag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фазан m
Roman: fazan (sh) m
Slovak: bažant m
Slovene: fazan (sl) m, fazanka f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: fazan
Upper Sorbian: bažant, fazan
Spanish: faisán (es) m
Swedish: fasan (sv)
Tagalog: paysan
Tatar: кыргавыл (qırgawıl)
Thai: ไก่ฟ้า (th) (gài-fáa)
Turkish: sülün (tr)
Turkmen: sülgün
Ukrainian: фаза́н m (fazán)
Uyghur: قىرغاۋۇل‎ (qirghawul)
Venetian: fajan (vec) f, fajàn f
Vietnamese: gà lôi (vi), trĩ (vi)
Volapük: fasan (vo)
Welsh: ffesant
West Frisian: fazant (fy)
Yiddish: פֿאַזאַן‎ m (fazan)
Zhuang: roeggae

Anagrams

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