yellowhammer

See also: yellow hammer and yellow-hammer

English

An especially yellow yellowhammer.

Geographic distribution of the yellowhammer.

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).

Noun

yellowhammer (plural yellowhammers)

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

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

2. (US) The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus.
3. 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
• Italian: zigolo giallo
• Japanese: 黄青鵐 (kiaoji)
• Kashubian: zwëczajny żółtobrzuszk m
• 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: penfelyn (cy) 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
• Emberiza citrinella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons