Can a puffin fly?
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Puffin
//ˈpʌfɪn//
Synonyms for "puffin" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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3 entriesrelated to
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Translations
59 translations across 42 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- ту́пік noun (Fratercula arctica)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кайра noun (Fratercula arctica)
- тупик noun (Fratercula arctica)
Catalan
1 entries- fraret noun (Fratercula arctica)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 海鸚 /海鹦 noun (Fratercula arctica)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 海鸚 /海鹦 noun (Fratercula arctica)
Cornish
2 entries- nath noun (Fratercula arctica)
- popa noun (Fratercula arctica)
Czech
1 entries- papuchalk noun (Fratercula arctica)
Danish
2 entries- lunde noun (Fratercula arctica)
- søpapegøje noun (Fratercula arctica)
Dutch
1 entries- papegaaiduiker noun (Fratercula arctica)
Esperanto
1 entries- fraterkulo noun (Fratercula arctica)
Faroese
1 entries- lundi noun (Fratercula arctica)
Finnish
1 entries- lunni noun (Fratercula arctica)
French
1 entries- macareux noun (Fratercula arctica)
Galician
1 entries- arao noun (Fratercula arctica)
German
4 entries- Gelbschopflund (F. cirrhata) noun (Fratercula arctica)
- Hundlund (F. corniculata) noun (Fratercula arctica)
- Lund noun (Fratercula arctica)
- Lundevogel noun (Fratercula arctica)
Greek
1 entries- φρατέρκουλα noun (Fratercula arctica)
Greenlandic
1 entries- qilanngaq noun (Fratercula arctica)
Hungarian
1 entries- lunda noun (Fratercula arctica)
Icelandic
1 entries- lundi noun (Fratercula arctica)
Indonesian
2 entries- beo laut noun (Fratercula arctica)
- pufin noun (Fratercula arctica)
Irish
2 entries- fuipín noun (Fratercula arctica)
- puifín noun (Fratercula arctica)
Italian
1 entries- pulcinella di mare noun (Fratercula arctica)
Japanese
1 entries- 角目鳥 noun (Fratercula arctica)
Manx
1 entries- pibbin noun (Fratercula arctica)
Navajo
1 entries- tsídii naʼałkǫ́ʼígíí noun (Fratercula arctica)
Norman
2 entries- gode à rouoge bé noun (Fratercula arctica)
- poffîn noun (Fratercula arctica)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lunde noun (Fratercula arctica)
Old Norse
1 entries- lundi noun (Fratercula arctica)
Polish
1 entries- maskonur noun (Fratercula arctica)
Portuguese
1 entries- papagaio-do-mar noun (Fratercula arctica)
Romanian
1 entries- furtunar noun (Fratercula arctica)
Romansch
1 entries- sfunsella noun (Fratercula arctica)
Russian
2 entries- топо́рик noun (Fratercula arctica)
- ту́пик noun (Fratercula arctica)
Scots
2 entries- (tammie) norrie noun (Fratercula arctica)
- ailsa cock noun (Fratercula arctica)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- buthaid noun (Fratercula arctica)
- peata-ruadh noun (Fratercula arctica)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tupik noun (Fratercula arctica)
Slovak
2 entries- alka bielobradá noun (Fratercula arctica)
- mníšik noun (Fratercula arctica)
Slovene
1 entries- njórka noun (Fratercula arctica)
Spanish
1 entries- frailecillo noun (Fratercula arctica)
Swedish
1 entries- lunnefågel noun (Fratercula arctica)
Turkish
2 entries- deniz papağanı noun (Fratercula arctica)
- fratercula noun (Fratercula arctica)
Welsh
1 entries- pâl noun (Fratercula arctica)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Today, a record 109 puffin pairs waddle about peaceably on Eastern Egg Rock, living amid terns and laughing gulls, whose shrieks pierce the sky.
Source: tatoeba (10820392)
What's the difference between a puffin and a penguin?
Source: tatoeba (10834428)
She's a little female puffin that has lived in the same crevice her whole life.
Source: tatoeba (11469165)
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