papegoja

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Old French papegai, from Spanish papagayo, likely from Arabic ببغاء. Compare Danish papegøje, German Papagei, English popinjay.

Noun

papegoja c

a parrot (bird from the order Psittaciformes)
Synonym: (colloquial) goja

Declension

Declension of papegoja
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	papegoja	papegojan	papegojor	papegojorna
Genitive	papegojas	papegojans	papegojors	papegojornas

Further reading

papegoja in Svensk ordbok.
papegoja in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
papegoja in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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