albatross

Etymology
. Probably from or, probably derived from   (compare ); or from , from , from , in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of. Not derived from modern 🇨🇬, which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.

For sense development of "burden", see.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various large seabirds of the family  ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
 * 2) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus . Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
 * 3)  A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
 * 4)  A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
 * 5) * 2006 March 13,, speech to the ,
 * energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: albatros
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: ӄаӄытъэӄ, ӄаӄытъэӄыт
 * Crimean Tatar: furtuna quşu
 * Czech:
 * Danish: albatros
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: albatroso
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: súlukongur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: albatros
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: महासामुद्र
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: súlukóngur,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: albatras
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 알바트로스
 * Latin: diomedea
 * Malay: albatros
 * Maltese: albatros, albatrosa
 * Maori: toroa
 * Navajo: tónteel tsídiitsoh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: албатрос, бурница
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: albatros
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: albatros, gwas y weilgi
 * Yup'ik: yaarcaq


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: albatros
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish: bró mhuilinn

Noun

 * 1)  an  or double eagle (a score of three strokes under par for a hole)
 * 1)  an  or double eagle (a score of three strokes under par for a hole)