cockerel

English

Etymology

From Middle English kokerel, equivalent to cock +‎ -rel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/

Noun

cockerel (plural cockerels)

A young male chicken.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.

Related terms

cock

Translations

young male chicken

Bulgarian: петле (bg) n (pétle)
Catalan: pollastre (ca), pollet (ca), butza (ca) (quan encara no té plomes)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小公雞, 小公鸡 (xiǎo gōngjī)
Czech: kohoutek (cs) m
Dalmatian: poluastro m
Danish: hanekylling
Dutch: haantje (nl) n
Estonian: kukepoeg
Finnish: kukonpoika
French: coquelet (fr) m
German: Hähnchen (de) n, Junghahn m, junger Hahn m
Greek: πετεινάρι (el) n (peteinári), κοκοράκι (el) n (kokoráki)
Hungarian: kiskakas

Italian: galletto (it) m, pollastra (it) f, pollastro m
Latvian: gailēns m
Macedonian: петле n (pétle)
Manx: eean kellee m
Polish: kogucik (pl) m
Portuguese: frango (pt) m
Romanian: cocoșel (ro) m
Russian: петушо́к (ru) m (petušók)
Slovak: kohútik m
Spanish: gallo (es) m, gallito (es) m
Swahili: jimbi (sw)
Tagalog: tatandangin
Talysh: سوک‎ (suk)
Volapük: higokül

See also

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