fulmar

See also: fúlmár

English

Etymology

From Icelandic fúlmár, from Old Norse fúlmár, from Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull, mew”) (see English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)/

Noun

fulmar (plural fulmars)

1. Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
   • 2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:

     In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.

   • 2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:

     In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.

   • 2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:

     And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.

Synonyms

• fulmar-petrel
• stinker

Derived terms

• northern fulmar (F. glacialis)
• southern fulmar (F. glacioides)
• fulmar prion

Translations

seabird in the genus Fulmarus

Bulgarian: полярен буревестник m (poljaren burevestnik) Catalan: fulmar m Czech: buřňák Danish: mallemuk (da) c, isstormfugl (da) c Faroese: havhestur m, náti m Finnish: myrskyliitäjä French: fulmar (fr) m German: Eissturmvogel m Greek: φουλμάρος m (foulmáros) Greenlandic: qaqulluk, timmiakuluk, malamuk Hungarian: hojsza Icelandic: fýll (is) m, múkki m Irish: fulmaire m Italian: fulmaro (it), ossifraga f Manx: pibbin vane f Old Norse: fúlmár m Polish: fulmar (pl) m Portuguese: fulmar m, pardelão m Russian: глупы́ш (ru) m (glupýš) Scottish Gaelic: fulmair m, eun-crom m, guga-Tiortach m (North Uist), làir-ghlas f (Arisaig), pollastair m (Uig Lewis) Slovak: fulmar m Spanish: fulmar m Swedish: stormfågel (sv) c Welsh: adar drycin y graig m pl

See also

• Fulmarus
• fulmar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fulmarus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Fulmarus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• Fulmar in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• armful

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English fulmar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fulˈmar]

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmars)

1. fulmar

Further reading

• “fulmar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Polish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈful.mar/
• Rhymes: -ulmar
• Syllabification: ful‧mar

Noun

fulmar m animal

1. fulmar

Declension

Declension of fulmar

	singular	plural
nominative	fulmar	fulmary
genitive	fulmara	fulmarów
dative	fulmarowi	fulmarom
accusative	fulmara	fulmary
instrumental	fulmarem	fulmarami
locative	fulmarze	fulmarach
vocative	fulmarze	fulmary

Further reading

• fulmar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

1. fulmar (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)

   Synonym: pardelão

Further reading

• “fulmar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fulˈmaɾ/ [fulˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ful‧mar

Adjective

fulmar m or f (masculine and feminine plural fulmares)

1. fulmarine

Noun

fulmar m (plural fulmares)

1. fulmar

Further reading

• “fulmar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025