swan

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from /.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Further cognates include (possibly) 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus  (bird family: ), most of which have white plumage.
 * 2)  One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
 * 3)  This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).

Hyponyms

 * (adult male)
 * (epicene, young)
 * (adult female)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: swaan
 * Ainu: レタッチㇼ
 * Albanian:
 * Algonquin: wequash
 * Arabic: تَمّ, قُقْنُس, إِوَزّ عِرَاقِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: وزة عراقي
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܩܘܩܢܘܣ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կարապ, պոր, փոր, կիկնոս
 * Assamese: ৰাজহাঁহ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: qu, qu quşu
 * Bashkir: аҡҡош
 * Basque: beltxarga
 * Belarusian: ле́бедзь
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:, alarh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Burushaski:
 * Buryat: хун
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: гӏургӏаз
 * Cherokee: ᎧᎳᎩᏌ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: нэрӄуӄ
 * Chuvash: акӑш
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan: куба
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: локсей
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Etruscan: 𐌕𐌖𐌔𐌍𐌀
 * Even: хуси
 * Evenki: багдавкӣ, gäre, ük-si
 * Faroese: svanur, okn
 * Finnish:
 * French:, cygne mâle, cygne femelle, , , jeune cygne
 * Friulian: cesen, cign
 * Gagauz: kuu
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გედი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κύκνος
 * Greenlandic: qussuk
 * Gujarati: હંસ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schwaan
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: luikko, joutsen
 * Interlingua: cygno
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ela, géis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: хун
 * Kannada:
 * Karachay-Balkar: къанкъаз
 * Karakalpak: quw
 * Kashmiri: أنٛز, أنٛزِنؠ
 * Kashubian: kôłp, kôłp, łabãdz
 * Kazakh: аққу
 * Khakas: хуу
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: къув
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ак куу
 * Ladin: zign
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Swaan, Swoon, swan, swane
 * Macedonian: лебед
 * Malay: joyinah
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: ċinju
 * Manchu: ᡤᠠᡵᡠ
 * Manx: olla, ollay
 * Maori: wani
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: йӱксӧ
 * Meänkieli: jouhkainen
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: куку
 * Navajo: dééłgai
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: svane
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: swan, ielfete
 * Old Norse: svanr, ǫlpt, álpt
 * Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐰍𐰆
 * Osage: míɣa ška
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوغو
 * Pali: haṃsa
 * Pashto: هېلۍ
 * Persian:, جویینه
 * Plautdietsch: Schwon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: baro-gansako, bari-papin
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: cign
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Inari Sami: njuhčâ
 * Kildin Sami: нюххч
 * Lule Sami: sjnjuktja
 * Northern Sami: njukča, boallonjukča
 * Skolt Sami: njuhčč
 * Southern Sami: njuktje
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: sìsini, cisne, tzignu
 * Saterland Frisian: Swoan
 * Scottish Gaelic: eala
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лабуд
 * Roman:
 * Shor: қуу
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: šwon, kołp
 * Upper Sorbian: kołp
 * Southern Altai: куу
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: gulbīs
 * Sundanese: soang
 * Swahili: bata-maji
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sisne
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: aqqoş
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: guw
 * Tuvan: куу
 * Udmurt: юсь
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ہنس
 * Uyghur: ئاق قۇ
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: zésamo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: swan
 * Yakut: куба
 * Yiddish: שוואַן

Verb

 * 1)  To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.

Usage notes

 * In the sense “to travel”, usually used as part of the phrase “to swan about” or “to swan around”.

Etymology 2
Probably from dialectal, a corruption of I shall warrant; or possibly from a minced form of.

Alternative forms

 * swanny

Verb

 * 1)  To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  bird of the genus Cygnus
 * 2) The meat of a swan.
 * 3)  A swan as a heraldic symbol.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 1
From, from , probably from. Compare 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) swan

Etymology 2
From. , a borrowing from.

Noun

 * 1)  man; warrior
 * 2) herdsman; herder
 * 3) servant
 * 4) boy; lad

Etymology
From, from , from , probably from.

Noun

 * 1)  swan