firebird

English

Firebird [1]

Firebird [2]

Firebird [3]

Ivan Tsarevitch and Firebird [4]

Etymology

From fire +‎ bird, so called because of their bright red or orange plumage.

Noun

firebird (plural firebirds)

1. A scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea. (This species is now classified as belonging to the cardinal family: Cardinalidae)
2. A Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula.
3. A vermilion flycatcher, Pyrocephalus rubinus.
4. (Slavic mythology) A magical and prophetic glowing or burning bird from a faraway land, which is both a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor

Translations

scarlet tanager

• Catalan: piranga escarlata f, piranga alanegra f
• French: piranga écarlate m
• German: Scharlachkardinal f

Baltimore oriole

vermilion flycatcher

• Navajo: tsįyaatsiiłchííʼ
• Russian: о́гненный мухое́д m (ógnennyj muxojéd), кра́сный тира́нн m (krásnyj tiránn)
• Spanish: mosquero cardenal m

glowing or burning bird (Slavic mythology)

• Belarusian: жар-пту́шка f (žar-ptúška), дра-птах m (dra-ptax)
• Breton: evn-tan m
• Bulgarian: жар-пти́ца f (žar-ptíca)
• Czech: pták ohnivák m
• Danish: ildfugl c
• Dutch: vuurvogel (nl) m
• Esperanto: fajrbirdo, fajrobirdo, fajra birdo
• Estonian: tulilind
• Finnish: tulilintu
• German: Feuervogel m
• Hungarian: tűzmadár (hu)
• Ingrian: tulilintu
• Macedonian: жар-птица f (žar-ptica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ildfugl m

  Nynorsk: eldfugl m

• Polish: żar-ptak m
• Portuguese: pássaro de fogo m
• Romanian: pasăre de foc f (pasărea de foc f)
• Russian: жар-пти́ца (ru) f (žar-ptíca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жа̑р-пти̏ца f

  Roman: žȃr-ptȉca (sh) f

• Slovak: vták ohnivák m
• Spanish: pájaro de fuego m
• Swedish: eldfågel c
• Ukrainian: жар-пти́ця f (žar-ptýcja), жар-птах m (žar-ptax)