cockatoo

English

A cockatoo (1).

Etymology

From Dutch kaketoe, borrowed from Malay kakaktua, kakatua. Spelling influenced by cock.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cockatoo (plural cockatoos)

1. A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]

   We saw some cockatoos in the aviary.

2. (slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.

Synonyms

• cocky

Derived terms

• bare-eyed cockatoo
• black cockatoo
• blood-stained cockatoo
• casuarina cockatoo
• cockatoo apple
• cockatoo farmer
• cockatoo grass
• cockatoo parrot
• gang-gang cockatoo
• glossy black cockatoo
• Goffin's cockatoo
• Leadbeater's cockatoo
• Major Mitchell's cockatoo
• palm cockatoo
• pink cockatoo
• red-tailed black cockatoo
• roseate cockatoo
• sulfur cockatoo
• sulfur-crested cockatoo
• sulphur cockatoo
• sulphur-crested cockatoo
• white cockatoo
• yellow-crested cockatoo
• yellow-tailed black cockatoo

 

Descendants

• → Irish: cocatú
• → Maori: kokatu, koketu

Translations

a bird

• Bengali: কাকাতুয়া (bn) (kakatuẏa)
• Bulgarian: какаду (kakadu)
• Burmese: ကတ္တဝါ (my) (katta.wa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳳頭鸚鵡／凤头鹦鹉 (fèngtóu yīngwǔ)

• Czech: kakadu (cs) m
• Danish: kakadue c
• Dutch: kaketoe (nl)
• Esperanto: kakatuo (eo)
• Finnish: kakadu (fi)
• French: cacatoès (fr) m
• Galician: cacatúa (gl) f
• German: Kakadu (de) m
• Greek: κακατόης m (kakatóis)
• Hebrew: קקדו (he) m
• Hindi: काकातुआ m (kākātuā), काकतुआ (hi) m (kāktuā)
• Hungarian: kakadu (hu)
• Indonesian: burung kakaktua, kakatua (id), burung kakatua (id)
• Irish: cocatú m
• Italian: cacatua (it) m
• Japanese: 鸚鵡 (ja) (ōmu)
• Javanese: jakatuwa
• Macedonian: какаду n (kakadu)
• Malay: burung kakaktua, kakaktua (ms)
• Maori: kokatu, koketu
• Murik (New Guinea): kakrep
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kakadu m or f, kakadue (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kakadu f, kakadue f

• Polish: kakadu (pl) n
• Portuguese: cacatua (pt) f, catatua f
• Romanian: cacadu m
• Russian: какаду́ (ru) m (kakadú)
• Samoan: kakato
• Spanish: cacatúa (es) f
• Swedish: kakadua (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalangay
• Thai: นกกระตั้ว (nɔk kratúa), กระตั้ว (th) (kratúa)
• Tok Pisin: koki
• Turkish: kakadu
• Volapük: kakad (vo), töpapapag (vo)
• Welsh: cocatŵ m, cocatŵod m pl

See also

• cockatiel
• corella
• galah
• Psittacidae

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cockatoo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.