cormorant

Etymology


From, from , (modern 🇨🇬), possibly variants of , from , with the ending -morant possibly derived from 🇨🇬, from , with -an corrupted in English to -ant. 🇨🇬 is ultimately derived from, which is of the harsh cry of the bird; while  is from  (ultimately from , possibly from ) +.



Noun

 * 1) Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family  which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant.
 * 2)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
 * 1)  A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kormorante
 * Ainu: ウリル
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: غَاقِيَات
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: দৈকলা, কাউৰী, পানী কাউৰী
 * Azerbaijani: qarabatdaqkimilər
 * Breton: morvaout,
 * Bulgarian: кормора́н, дяволица, голям корморан
 * Burmese: တင်ကျီးငှက်
 * Catalan: corb marí
 * Cebuano: gamaw
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鸕鶿, 鸕䲿, 鸬鹚,
 * Cornish: morvran
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ålekrage,, storskarv
 * Dutch:, , , waterraaf
 * Esperanto: kormorano
 * Estonian: kormoranlased, karbaslased
 * Faroese: hiplingur, skarvur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ჩვამასებრნი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ευρωπαϊκός κορμοράνος,
 * Ancient Greek: κόρᾰξ
 * Greenlandic: oqaatsoq
 * Hawaiian: kakalakeke, lawaiʻa
 * Hebrew: קורמורניים
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: skarfur
 * Irish: broigheall, cailleach dhubh, duibhéan, fiach mara
 * Italian:, , , mangione,
 * Japanese:, 鷀, 鸕, 鶿
 * Kazakh: суқұзғын
 * Klallam: ƛ'əŋ'q'łčə́qsən
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: кара каздар
 * Lacandon: ʌjmach
 * Latin: phalacrocorax, truō
 * Latvian: jūras krauklis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: кормора́н
 * Malayalam: നീർക്കാക്ക
 * Manx: cormorant, fannag varrey, feeagh marrey, scarroo, shag
 * Mi'kmaq: mqatawapu
 * Navajo: tónteel zhį́ʼii
 * Norman: cormaran
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: gaagaagiishib
 * Old Japanese: しまつとり
 * Ottoman Turkish: قره باتاق
 * Persian: باکلان
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, biguá
 * Quechua: kusuri
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Saanich: MÁŦEĆ
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgarbh, ballaire, ballaire-bòthain, gairg, gairgeann, learg
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: корморани, вранци
 * Shan:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: cormorán
 * Swahili: mnandi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kasili, korbehon
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: జలకాకము, ,
 * Tibetan: སོ་བྱ།
 * Tlingit: yooḵ
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: ca nặm
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کارمورنٹ
 * Vietnamese:, cốc đế
 * Welsh: mulfran, morfran
 * West Flemish: aalscholver, butstekker
 * West Frisian: ielguozzen
 * Wolof: coll
 * Zealandic: aolscholver


 * Hungarian: kapzsi/telhetetlen ember/lény

Adjective

 * 1)  Voracious; aggressively greedy.