We all know our little feathered friends by the common names budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, shell parakeet or just keet.
Do you know how people call budgerigars in other parts of the world?
Enjoy!
Alemannic German: Wällesittich
Arabic: الطائر الطيب
Basque: Perikito
Belarusian: Хвалісты папугай
Bulgarian: Вълнист папагал
Catalan: Periquito
Chinese: 虎皮鸚鵡
Croatian: Tigrica
Czech: Andulka vlnkovaná
Dansk: Undulat
Dutch: Grasparkiet
Finnish: Undulaatti
Flemish: Grasparkiet
French: Perruche Ondulée
German: Wellensittich
Hebrew: תוכון
Hungarian: Hullámos papagáj
Ido: Perucho
Italian: Melopsittacus
Japanese: セキセイインコ
Korean: 사랑앵무
Lithuanian: Banguotoji papūgėlė
Navajo Language: Tsídii yáłtiʼí yázhí
Norwegian: Undulat
Persian: مرغ عشق
Polish: Papużka falista
Portuguese: Periquito-australiano
Romanian: Peruş
Russian: Волнистый попугайчик
Sami Language: Unduláhtta
Scottish Gaelic: Buidsidh
Slovak: Papagájec/Andulka
Slovenian: Papagájec
Swedish: Undulat
Tagalog: Melopsittacus Undulatus / Budgerigar
Telugu: మెలోప్సిట్టాసిని
Turkish: Muhabbet kuşu
Ukrainian: Хвилястий папужка
Urdu: بجریگر
If you know their name in even more languages, please let me know! Thanks!
Cool! Where did you find this?
ReplyDeleteI knew a few of them already, but some of the new ones are great! My favourite is Croatian: Tigrica ;)
Does the Polish one (papużka falista) mean something like crazy grandmother?
haha :D "papużka" actually means "little parrot" in Polish, and "falista" means "corrugated" (corrugated means something like shaped into ridges, or furrowed - that's the "stripy" part we are looking for in budgies ;) )
ReplyDeleteI also like the Croation translation :D I found them on Wikipedia, www.eol.org and also got some help from Google Translate :)
Slovak: "Papagájec" - that's more official - book - way, in common language it's more like the Czech: "Andulka vlnkovaná", or simply "Andulka" (which I like the most ;))
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I updated the post now :)
DeleteThe Hungarian one literally means parrot with billows or waves, because of their pattern.
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