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Borrowed from German Papagei, from Old French papegai, from Spanish papagayo, from Arabic بَبَّغَاء (babbaḡāʔ, “parrot”), possibly from an African language.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒpɒɡaːj]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gáj
• Rhymes: -aːj

papagáj (plural papagájok)

1. parrot (bird)

• papagáj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Borrowed from German Papagei, from Old French papegai, from Spanish papagayo, from Arabic بَبَّغَاء (babbaḡāʔ, “parrot”), possibly from an African language.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpapaɡaːj]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gáj

papagáj m animal (relational adjective papagájí, diminutive papagájik, augmentative papagájisko)

1. a parrot (bird)

• morský papagáj

• “papagáj”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025