black swan

Etymology


From, from a  quotation from Satire VI (written late 1st century – early 2nd century ) of the Roman poet : “Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno [a bird as rare upon the earth as a black swan]!”. Equivalent to 🇰🇲.

(“something believed impossible or not to exist”) is from the fact that all swans were thought to have white plumage until black swans were discovered in Australia in the 17th century by Dutch explorers. (“rare and hard-to-predict event”) was popularized by the Lebanese-American author (born 1960) in his book  (2007): see the quotation.

Noun

 * , a swan with black plumage and a red bill which is endemic to Australia.
 * 1)  Something believed impossible or not to exist, especially if an example is subsequently found; also, something extremely rare; a rara avis.
 * 2)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  Something believed impossible or not to exist, especially if an example is subsequently found; also, something extremely rare; a rara avis.
 * 2)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  Something believed impossible or not to exist, especially if an example is subsequently found; also, something extremely rare; a rara avis.
 * 2)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.
 * 1)  A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.

Hypernyms

 * – family; – subfamily; Cygnus – genus

Translations

 * Afrikaans: swartswaan
 * Albanian: mjellma e zezë
 * Arabic: تَمّ أَسْوَد
 * Armenian: սև կարապ
 * Azerbaijani: qara qu quşu
 * Basque: beltxarga beltz
 * Belarusian: чорны лебедзь
 * Bengali: কালো রাজহাঁস
 * Breton: alarc'h du
 * Bulgarian: че́рен ле́бед
 * Burmese: ငန်းနက်
 * Catalan: cigne negre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑天鵝
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sortsvane
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: nigra cigno
 * Estonian: mustluik
 * Faroese: svartisvanur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cisne negro
 * German:
 * Greek: μαύρος κύκνος
 * Hebrew: ברבור שחור
 * Hindi: काला हंस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: angsa hitam
 * Irish: eala dhubh
 * Italian: cigno nero
 * Japanese:
 * Kabardian: къыуфӀыцӀэ
 * Kannada: ಕಪ್ಪು ಹಂಸ
 * Korean: 흑고니
 * Kumyk: къара къув
 * Latvian: melnais gulbis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: црн лебед
 * Malay: joyinah hitam
 * Malayalam: കറുത്ത അരയന്നം
 * Mari:
 * Western Mari: шим йӱксӹ
 * Navajo: dééshzhiin
 * Northern Sami: čáhppesnjukča
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: svartsvane
 * Nynorsk: svartsvane
 * Nyunga: maali
 * Occitan: cicne negre
 * Ottoman Turkish: قره قوغو
 * Persian: قوی سیاه
 * Picard: chin·nhe nòre
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: cisne-negro
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: чёрный ле́бедь
 * Sardinian: sìsini nieddu
 * Scottish Gaelic: eala dhubh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цр̑нӣ ла̏бӯд
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: labuť čierna
 * Slovene: črni labod
 * Spanish: cisne negro
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: கறுப்பு அன்னம்
 * Thai: หงส์ดำ
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: сьӧд юсь
 * Ukrainian: чорний лебідь, лебідь чорний
 * Vietnamese: thiên nga đen
 * Wathaurong: kunawarr
 * Welsh: alarch du
 * West Frisian: swarte swan
 * Western Panjabi: کالا ہنس


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑天鵝
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: mosca bianca
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sort svane
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: leprechaun
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黑天鵝
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: