different between flamenco vs flamingo

English

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Vlaming).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fl??m??k??/

Noun

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

Derived terms

• flamenco guitar

Translations

See also

• fandango

Verb

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?k?o/, [?fl?me??k?o?]
• IPA^(key): /?fl?me?ko/, [?fl?me??ko?]

Noun

flamenco

1. flamenco

Declension

French

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?m?n.k?/

Noun

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

Further reading

• flamenco in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Dutch Vlaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?menko/, [fla?m??.ko]

Adjective

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

Noun

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

Derived terms

Noun

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium

Related terms

• Flandes

See also

• bailaor, bailaora

Further reading

• “flamenco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Provençal flama (“flame”), from Latin flamma (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fl??m???o?/
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

flamingo (plural flamingos or flamingoes)

1. A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae.
2. A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

Synonyms

• (bird): phenicopter

Translations

Adjective

flamingo (not comparable)

1. Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Danish

Noun

flamingo c (singular definite flamingoen, plural indefinite flamingoer)

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension

References

• “flamingo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo, from Old Occitan flamenc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fla??m??.?o?/
• Hyphenation: fla?min?go

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingo's, diminutive flamingootje n)

1. flamingo, bird of the family Phoenicopteridae

   Synonym: zeegans

2. (Suriname) scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber

   Synonym: rode ibis

Descendants

• Afrikaans: flamink

Esperanto

Etymology

flamo (“flame”) +? -ingo (“socket”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?min?o/
• Hyphenation: fla?min?go

Noun

flamingo (accusative singular flamingon, plural flamingoj, accusative plural flamingojn)

1. gas burner

See also

• flamengo (“flamingo”)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?mi??o/, [?fl?mi??o?]
• Rhymes: -?mi??o
• Syllabification: fla?min?go

Noun

flamingo

1. flamingo
2. (specifically) greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Declension

Malay

Noun

flamingo (plural flamingo-flamingo, informal 1st possessive flamingoku, impolite 2nd possessive flamingomu, 3rd possessive flamingonya)

1. flamingo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo

Noun

flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoer, definite plural flamingoene)

1. a flamingo

References

• “flamingo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese flamingo

Noun

flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoar, definite plural flamingoane)

1. a flamingo

References

• “flamingo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• flamengo

Etymology

Borrowed from English flamingo, from Portuguese and Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Old Occitan flamenc (“flame colored”), from Latin flamma (“flame”) (compare Portuguese chama, flama).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /fl?.?m?.?u/
• Hyphenation: fla?min?go

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingos)

1. flamingo (bird)

Related terms

• chama
• flamejante

See also

• flamengo

Romanian

Alternative forms

• flaming (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Flamingo, from Spanish flamengo or Portuguese flamengo (“flame colored”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla?min.?o/

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingi)

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension

Derived terms

• flamingo andin
• flamingo chilian
• flamingo minor
• flamingo roz

Paronyms

• flamenco

See also

• fenicopteriform

References

• flamingo in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Noun

flamingo m (plural flamingos)

1. flamingo

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch flamingo. (The bird that in English is known as flamingo is known instead as segansi.)

Noun

flamingo

1. scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber

   Synonym: korikori

Swedish

Noun

flamingo c

1. flamingo (bird)

Declension