different between mallard vs orca

English

Alternative forms

• maudelard, mawdelard (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English malarde, mawdelare, from Old French malart, mallart (“wild duck”), possibly derived from the Old High German Madelhart (proper name) (whence the English forms maudelard, mawdelard); or alternatively from Old French male, malle (“male”) +? -ard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæl.??(?)d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæl?d/

Noun

mallard (plural mallards or mallard)

1. A common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?).k?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k?

Noun

orca (plural orcas or orca)

1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

   Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, blackfish

Translations

See also

• ork, orc

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, ocra

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??r.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /???.ka/

Noun

orca f (plural orques)

1. orca

Further reading

• “orca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: candorca

Further reading

• “orca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Hungarian

Etymology

A compound of orr (“nose”) +? száj (“mouth”) ? orrszáj, transformed to orca over the centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ort?s?]
• Hyphenation: or?ca
• Rhymes: -t?s?

Noun

orca (plural orcák)

1. (archaic) cheek

   Holonym: (face) arc

   • 1844, Sándor Pet?fi, János vitéz,^[1] chapter 4, stanza 5, lines 1–2, translated by John Ridland:^[2]

     „Hej, Iluskám! hogyne volnék én halovány, / Mikor szép orcádat utószor látom tán…”

     “Oh, Nelly love! How could I help but look white, / When your lovely face soon will be torn from my sight…”

   • 1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember,^[3] part 1, chapter 2:

     A kormányos ölnyi termet? kemény férfi volt, er?sen rezes arcszínnel, a két orcáján a pirosság vékony hajszálerek szövevényében fejezte ki magát, mikt?l a szeme fehére is recés volt.

     The steersman is a six-foot weather-beaten sailor with a very red face, whose color on both cheeks comes from a network of veins with which the white of the eye is also transfused.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• orca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

orca f (genitive singular orcan, nominative plural oircne)

1. (anatomy, literary) calf (of leg)

   Synonyms: colpa, pluc

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "orca" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “orca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “orca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “orca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.ka/

Noun

orca f (plural orche)

1. killer whale; orca

   Synonym: balena assassina

Anagrams

• acro, arco, caro, ocra, roca

Latin

Etymology

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (húrkh?, “earthen fish-salting vessel”), or else both borrowed separately from a substrate Mediterranean language. The sense of whale is likely influenced by ???? (órux, “pickaxe; oryx; narwhal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?or.ka/, [??rkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?or.ka/, [??rk?]

Noun

orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• orca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• orca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• orca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• orca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• Hyphenation: or?ca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca

   Synonym: baleia-assassina

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ka/, [?o?.ka]
• Hyphenation: or?ca
• Homophone: horca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas, masculine orco, masculine plural orcos)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: ballena asesina

Anagrams

• arco, caro, cora, raco, roca

Further reading

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