cockerel

English

Etymology

From Middle English kokerel, equivalent to cock +‎ -rel.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/

Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

A young male chicken.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

Related terms

cock

Translations

young male chicken

Bulgarian: пе́тле (bg) n (pétle)
Catalan: pollastre (ca), pollet (ca), butza (ca) (quan encara no té plomes)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小公雞／小公鸡 (xiǎo gōngjī)
Czech: kohoutek (cs) m
Dalmatian: poluastro m
Danish: hanekylling
Dutch: haantje (nl) n
Estonian: kukepoeg
Finnish: kukonpoika
French: coquelet (fr) m
Georgian: ყვინჩილა (q̇vinčila)
German: Hähnchen (de) n, Junghahn m, junger Hahn m
Greek: πετεινάρι (el) n (peteinári), κοκοράκι (el) n (kokoráki)
Hungarian: kiskakas (hu)
Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro (it) m
Latvian: gailēns m
Macedonian: петле n (petle)
Manx: eean kellee m
Polish: kogucik (pl) m
Portuguese: frango (pt) m
Punjabi:
Shahmukhi: کُکَڑ (kukaṛ)
Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m
Russian: петушо́к (ru) m (petušók)
Slovak: kohútik m
Spanish: gallo (es) m, gallito (es) m
Swahili: jimbi (sw)
Tagalog: tatandangin
Talysh: سوک (suk)
Volapük: higokül
Yakut: бөтүүкчээн (bötüükceen)

See also

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