fowl

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , from , from , dissimilated variant of (compare 🇨🇬 ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. . More at fly.

Noun

 * 1)  A bird.
 * 2) A bird of the order, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
 * 3) Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order  such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade.
 * 1) Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order  such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade.

Translations

 * Dutch: stuk pluimvee
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Stück Federvieh,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Javanese:
 * Kodava: ಕೋಳಿ
 * Latvian: mājputns
 * Lithuanian: naminis paukštis
 * Neapolitan: pollo
 * Norwegian: fjærfe
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old Javanese: pitik
 * Ottoman Turkish: طاوق
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: домашняя пти́ца
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pjerina
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, víziszárnyas
 * Icelandic: fiðurfé
 * Irish: éanlaith
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ave de criação/corte
 * Russian: пернатая дичь
 * Slovak:, hyd
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pjerina
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Welsh:, ,

Verb

 * 1) To hunt fowl.
 * We took our guns and went fowling.

Translations

 * Welsh: adara

Adjective

 * 1)  foul
 * 2) * Paradise Lost, John Milton
 * Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?

Noun

 * And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10
 * And smale fowles maken melodye That slepen all the night with open ye - Chaucer, General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll.9-10