different between finch vs avadavat

English

Etymology

From Middle English fynche, from Old English fin?, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (“chaffinch”). Compare Welsh pinc (“finch”), Ancient Greek ??????? (spíngos, “chaffinch”), Russian ?????? (pénka, “wren”), Sanskrit ?????? (phi?gaka, “drongo, shrike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

finch (plural finches)

1. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• brambling
• canary
• crossbill (Loxia spp.)
• redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
• serin
• siskin

Verb

finch (third-person singular simple present finches, present participle finching, simple past and past participle finched)

1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

References

• finch at OneLook Dictionary Search
• finch in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle English

Noun

finch

1. Alternative form of fynche

English

Etymology

Variant of earlier amadavat, from Ahmedabad, city in Gujarat, India, from which the bird was imported to Europe.

Noun

avadavat (plural avadavats)

1. Any of various estrildid finches of the genus Amandava, especially the red avadavat, Amandava amandava, of India and Southeast Asia, commonly kept and bred as a cagebird.

Synonyms

• amadavat

References

• avadavat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia