penguin

Etymology

 * first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was ). Possibly from and, or from . See citations and the.

Because of the often black-and-white habit, resembling the bird's colors.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several flightless sea birds, of order, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
 * 2)  An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.
 * 3)  A nun.
 * 4)  A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
 * 5) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit,.
 * 6)  A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.
 * 1)  A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
 * 2) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit,.
 * 3)  A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.
 * 1)  A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Adyghe: пингвин
 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan:
 * Aklanon:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بِطْرِيق
 * Egyptian Arabic: بطريق
 * Hijazi Arabic: بَطْريق
 * Aragonese: pingüino
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: পেঙ্গুইন
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: пінгві́н
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Nahuatl: michtototl
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 企鵝
 * Hakka: 企鵝
 * Hokkien:, 企鵝
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 企鵝
 * Cornish: penn gwynn
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޕެންގުއިން
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: эймацей
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pingvin
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პინგვინი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: પેંગ્વિન
 * Hawaiian: manu-hele-kū, manuhelekū, penekuina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पेंगुइन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: pinguin
 * Irish: piongain
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 人鳥 ,
 * Kazakh: пингвин
 * Khmer: ភេនឃ្វីន
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: пингвин, карабат
 * Lao: ນົກຄໍກ່ານ, ຫ່ານຢິ່ງຢີ້
 * Latvian: pingvīns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Pinguien
 * Macedonian: пингви́н
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: pengwin
 * Māori:
 * Mapudungun: pachanka
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: оцон шувуу, пингвин, явган галуу
 * Mongolian: ᠣᠴᠣᠩ ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠭᠤ, ᠶᠠᠪᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤ
 * Nahuatl: michtototl
 * Navajo: tsídii naʼałkʼaiʼí
 * Norman: pîngouîn
 * Norwegian: pingvin
 * Pashto: پنګوين
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, bezlotek
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѝнгвӣн
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: tučniak
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, pengwini
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pingguwino
 * Tajik: пингвин
 * Tatar: пингвин
 * Thai: เพนกวิน
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:, karabat
 * Turkmen: pingwin
 * Ukrainian: пінгві́н
 * Urdu: پنگوئن
 * Uyghur: پىنگېۋىن
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, chim cụt cánh
 * Volapük: pinguen
 * Welsh: pengwin, pengwiniaid
 * Xhosa: oonombombiya
 * Yámana: ŝúŝa
 * Yiddish: פּינגווין
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: gingoz
 * Zulu: iphengwini