English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā) / Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnə/
- Rhymes: -aɪnə
Noun
myna (plural mynas)
- One of the South and East Asian birds of the starling family Sturnidae.
Derived terms
Translations
the Asian members of starling family
- Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀲𑀸𑀮𑀺𑀓𑀸 f (sālikā)
- Assamese: শালিকা (xalika), মইনা (moina)
- Bengali: ময়না (bn) (moẏna)
- Bulgarian: ушат скорец m (ušat skorec)
- Burmese: ဆက်ရက် (my) (hcak-rak)
- Catalan: minà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 了哥 (liu5-1 go1), 八哥 (baat3 go1)
- Hakka: 烏鷯 / 乌鹩 (vû-liau), 白翼仔 (pha̍k-yi̍t-é)
- Hokkien: 鵁鴒 / 䴔鸰 (zh-min-nan) (ka-lēng), 八哥 (pat-ko)
- Mandarin: 八哥 (zh) (bāgē), 八哥兒 / 八哥儿 (zh) (bāgēr), 八八兒 / 八八儿 (zh) (bābār), 寒皋 (zh) (hángāo), 鴝鵒 / 鸲鹆 (zh) (qúyù), 秦吉了 (zh) (qínjíliǎo)
- Czech: majna f
- Dutch: maina (nl)
- Finnish: kuningaskottarainen (genus Basilornis); harakkakottarainen (genus Streptocitta); maina (fi) (genera Acridotheres, Gracula, Ampeliceps, Mino, Enodes, Leucopsar);
- French: mainate (fr) m
- German: Maina f
- Hebrew: מיינה f (máyna)
- Hindi: मैना (hi) (mainā)
- Hungarian: majna, mejnó
- Indonesian: beo (id), mina (id)
- Irish: míona (ga) m
- Khmer: សារិកាកែវ (km) (saare’kaa kaev)
- Lao: ສາລິກາ (sā li kā)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: മൈന (ml) (maina), മാടത്ത (ml) (māṭatta)
- Manx: truitlag Injinagh f
- Maori: maina
- Marathi: मैना (mainā)
- Odia: ଶାରୀ (or) (śāri)
- Pashto: ښارو (ps) f (ẍâro)
- Polish: gwarek (pl) m
- Portuguese: mainá
- Punjabi: ਮੈਨਾ f (mainā)
- Russian: ма́йна (ru) f (májna)
- Sanskrit: शलाका (sa) f (śalākā), शारिका (sa) f (śārikā), सारिका (sa) f (sārikā), मदन (sa) m (madana)
- Spanish: mainá f
- Tamil: மைனா (ta) (maiṉā)
- Telugu: మైనా (te) (mainā)
- Thai: ขุนทอง (th) (kǔn-tɔɔng), นกขุนทอง (th) (nók kǔn-tɔɔng)
- Urdu: مینا (menā)
- Welsh: maina m
- Zhuang: roeggeuq
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