Penguin

Etymology
Unknown origin. Possibly from pen: ("head") and gwyn: ("white"). See citations.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
 * 2)  A nun.
 * 3)  A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
 * 4)  the Tux penguin, the mascot of Linux.

Derived terms

 * Adelie penguin
 * African penguin
 * Chatham Island penguin
 * chinstrap penguin
 * crested penguin
 * emperor penguin
 * erect-crested penguin
 * fairy penguin
 * Fiordland penguin
 * Galapagos penguin
 * gentoo penguin
 * Humboldt penguin


 * jackass penguin
 * king penguin
 * little penguin
 * macaroni penguin
 * Magellanic penguin
 * Ridgen's penguin
 * rockhopper penguin
 * royal penguin
 * Snares penguin
 * white-flippered penguin
 * yellow-eyed penguin

Translations

 * Afrikaans: pikkewyn
 * Arabic: بطريق, بينجوين
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: pinguino
 * Belarusian: пінгвін
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: pingüí
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (Note that "pingouin" is a false friend. "pingouin" means auk)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פינגווין
 * Hindi: पेंगुइन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:


 * Latvian: pingvīns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Pinguien
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: pengwin
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: پنگوئن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: pinguim / pingüim
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: пингвин
 * Latin: pingvin
 * Slovak: tučniak
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: เพนกวิน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пінгвін
 * Vietnamese: chim cánh cụt
 * Volapük: pinguen,  hipinguen,  jipinguen,  pinguenül,  hipinguenül,  jipinguenül