yellowhammer

See also: yellow hammer and yellow-hammer

English

Alternative forms

• yellow-ammer, yellow-hammer

Etymology

Alteration (influenced by hammer) of earlier yelambre, yelamber, from Middle English *yelwambre, from yelwe (“yellow”) + *ambre (“yellowhammer”), from Old English amore, related to Old High German amaro (“yellowhammer”) (see modern German Ammer).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛl.əʊˌhæm.ə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛl.oʊˌhæm.ɚ/

Noun

yellowhammer (plural yellowhammers)

2. A passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella, of western Eurasia, which is mainly yellow in colour.

   Synonyms: yellow bunting, ammer, yelamber, yeorling, yowley, yeldrin, yite

4. (US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus, a woodpecker with yellow underwings and undertail and often other yellowish underparts; one of its ways of feeding is to hammer on trees to find insects (adults and larvae) to eat.
6. A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.

Translations

a passerine bird, Emberiza citrinella

Asturian: mederizu (ast), pardomostu (ast) Belarusian: стрынатка f (strynatka), аўсянка звычайна f (aŭsjanka zvyčajna) Bulgarian: жълтурка (žǎlturka), овесарка f (ovesarka) Carpathian Rusyn: жовтурка f (žovturka) Catalan: verderola, hortolà groc Czech: strnad (cs) Danish: gulspurv (da) c Dutch: geelgors (nl) f Esperanto: flava emberizo Estonian: talvike Faroese: gulspurvur m Finnish: keltasirkku (fi) French: bruant jaune (fr) m Galician: pimpís m, escribenta amarela f, escribán (gl) m, escribenta (gl) f German: Goldammer (de) f Alemannic German: Geelamere f, Goldamere f Hungarian: citromsármány (hu) Inari Sami: fiskiscissááš Ingrian: keltacirkkulain Italian: zigolo giallo Japanese: 黄青鵐 (kiaoji) Kashubian: zwëczajny żółtobrzuszk m Korean: 노랑멧새 (norangmetsae) Latvian: dzeltenā stērste f Lithuanian: geltonoji starta Lule Sami: visskátsihtse Macedonian: жолтогрлата стрнарка f (žoltogrlata strnarka) Maltese: durrajsa safra f Northern Sami: fiskescihci Norwegian: Bokmål: gulspurv m Nynorsk: gulsporv m Old English: please add this translation if you can Polish: trznadel (pl) m Portuguese: verdelha (pt) f, escrevedeira-amarela f Romanian: presură galbenă Russian: овся́нка обыкновенная (ovsjánka obyknovennaja) Scottish Gaelic: buidheag-bhealaidh f Serbo-Croatian: стрнадица жутовољка f, strnadica žutovoljka (sh) f Slovak: strnádka obyčajná f, strnádka žltá f Slovene: rumeni strnad m Spanish: escribano cerillo m Swedish: gulsparv (sv) c Ukrainian: вівсянка звичайна f (vivsjanka zvyčajna) Vilamovian: please add this translation if you can Welsh: bras melyn m

a native or resident of the American state of Alabama

Dutch: gouden grondspecht (nl) m Russian: штат золотистого дятла (štat zolotistovo djatla)

See also

• a little bit of bread and no cheese

Further reading

• yellowhammer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Emberiza citrinella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Emberiza citrinella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons