Rufous hummingbird (one species of hummingbird)
From humming ( noun ) + bird , in reference to the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings.
hummingbird (plural hummingbirds )
Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
Hyponym: carib
1857 Thoreau, Henry David , journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]
1912 , Arthur Conan Doyle , The Lost World [ … ] , London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton , →OCLC :Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae
Alabama: ɬikònɬa
Albanian: kolibër (sq) m
Alcozauca Mixtec: ndio'o
Arabic: طَنَّان m ( ṭannān ) , طَنَان m ( ṭanān )
Egyptian Arabic: طنان m ( ṭanān ) , كوليبري m ( kolibri )
Arikapú: bitürü
Armenian: կոլիբրի (hy) ( kolibri )
Assamese: মৌপিয়া ( moupia )
Asturian: colibrí (ast) m
Atikamekw: rorokasiw
Aymara: luli
Azerbaijani: kolibrilər
Baniwa: pimi
Basque: kolibri
Belarusian: калібры m ( kalibry )
Breton: evnedigoù-lufr , evned-kelien
Bulgarian: колибри (bg) n ( kolibri )
Cabécar: batsu̱lá , batsu̱
Catalan: colibrí (ca) m
Central Sierra Miwok: lí·čič·i-
Chamicuro: pishlo
Cherokee: ᏩᎴᎷ (chr) ( walelu )
Cheyenne: ma'kaataevé'késo
Chickasaw: lhikommak
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蜂鳥 / 蜂鸟 ( fung1 niu5 )
Mandarin: 蜂鳥 / 蜂鸟 (zh) ( fēngniǎo )
Chol: ts'uñuñ
Classical Nahuatl: huitzitzilin
Cornish: edhen si f
Czech: kolibřík (cs) m
Danish: kolibri c
Dutch: kolibrie (nl) m
Esperanto: kolibro (eo)
Estonian: koolibri
Finnish: kolibri (fi)
French: colibri (fr) m , oiseau-mouche (fr) m ; ( Louisiana ) oiseau de fleurs m , suce-fleur (fr) m
Galician: colibrí m
Georgian: კოლიბრი (ka) ( ḳolibri )
German: Kolibri (de) m , Schwirrvogel m
Greek: κολιμπρί (el) n ( kolimprí )
Guahibo: si̱pi
Guaraní: mainumby , mainumbí (gn)
Haitian Creole: wanganègès , zwazo mouch
Hebrew: קוֹלִיבְּרִי
Hindi: गुंजन पक्षी m ( guñjan pakṣī )
Hungarian: kolibri (hu)
Icelandic: kólibrífugl (is) m
Ido: kolibrio (io)
Irish: dordéan m
Italian: colibrì (it) m
Japanese: 蜂鳥 (ja) ( はちどり, hachidori ) , 蜂雀 ( はちすずめ, hachisuzume )
Javanese: kolibri
Kaingang: kókoj
Karitiâna: yjora
Kashubian: kòlibrë
Kazakh: қолибри ( qolibri )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Kiliwa: t'msok
Klamath-Modoc: p'isɁas
Korean: 벌새 (ko) ( beolsae )
Kyrgyz: колибри ( kolibri )
Latin: colibris m
Latvian: kolibri m
Lezgi: коли́бри ( kolíbri )
Lithuanian: kolibris (lt) m
Macedonian: колибри f ( kolibri )
Malay: burung madu
Malayalam: ഹമ്മിങ് ബേഡ് ( hammiṅŭ bēḍŭ )
Manx: ushag ving f
Mapudungun: pinda
Mari:
Western Mari: колибри ( koĺibri )
Mezquital Otomi: gätu̱
Mixtepec Mixtec: nchoꞌo
Mongolian: эрээн дальт бяцхан шувуу ( ereen dalʹt bjacxan šuvuu )
Nahuatl: huitzilin (nah)
Navajo: dahiitį́hii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kolibri m
Nynorsk: kolibri m
Occitan: colibrí (oc) m , bècaflor (oc) m
Pawnee: rikuhcawiitakaaruʼ
Persian: مرغ مگسخوار ( morğ-e magas-xâr )
Pipil: witzitzil
Polish: koliber (pl) m
Portuguese: beija-flor (pt) m , colibri (pt) m
Punjabi: ਹਮਿੰਗ ਪੰਛੀ ( hamiṅg pañchī )
Quechua: q'inti
Rikbaktsa: ikyrik
Romanian: colibri (ro) m
Russian: коли́бри (ru) f ( kolíbri )
San Jerónimo Tecóatl Mazatec: ntsi̱ká
Scottish Gaelic: drannd-eun m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: колѝбри m
Roman: kolìbri (sh) m
Slovak: kolibrík m
Slovene: kolibri (sl) m
Spanish: colibrí (es) m , ( Colombia ) chupaflor m , ( Mexico ) chuparrosa m , ( Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua ) gorrión (es) m , ( South America ) picaflor (es) m , ( Ecuadorian and Northern Peruvian Andes ) quinde m , ( Venezuela ) tucusito m , ( Panama ) visitaflor m , ( Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico ) zumbador (es) m , ( Cuba ) zunzún (es) m
Sundanese: kolibri
Swahili: kolibri
Swedish: kolibri (sv) c
Tagalog: ibong humuhugong , ibong umuugong , ibong humahaginit
Tamil: ஓசனிச்சிட்டு (ta) ( ōcaṉicciṭṭu )
Taos: tȕculóna
Tapirapé: wãjnomyʼi
Telugu: హమ్మింగ్ పక్షి ( hammiṅg pakṣi )
Thai: ฮัมมิงเบิร์ด ( ham-mîng-bə́ət )
Tlahuica: lindy
Tulu: ಹಮ್ಮಿಂಗ್ ಬರ್ಡ್ ( hammiṅgŭ barḍŭ )
Turkish: sinek kuşu (tr)
Ukrainian: колібрі (uk) m ( kolibri )
Uyghur: ھەرە قۇش ( here qush )
Vietnamese: chim ruồi , chim ong
Volapük: kolibrit (vo)
Wastek: chunún
Welsh: aderyn y si m , adar y si m pl , si-edn m
West Frisian: kolibry c
Yaqui: semálulukut
Yucatec Maya: tsʼunuʼun
Záparo: úyhiá