Cuckoo

Etymology
From, probably from (whence French ); ultimately , perhaps via.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call.
 * 2) * 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1
 * He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.
 * 1) The sound of that particular bird.
 * 2) The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
 * 3) The cuckoo clock itself.
 * 4) A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
 * 5)  Someone who is crazy.

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Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: وَقْوَاق
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: cucu
 * Bashkir: кәкүк
 * Basque: kuku
 * Belarusian: зязю́ля
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ку́кувица, кукуви́ца
 * Catalan: cucut
 * Chechen: оттйокх
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Chukchi: ӄэӄӄуӄ, ӄэӄуӄ, ӄэӄучьын
 * Cornish: koukou
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: geykur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: cuc, cuců, cucuc
 * Galician: cuco, cuquelo
 * Georgian: გუგული
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κόκκυξ
 * Hebrew: קוקייה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Inari Sami: kiehâ
 * Interlingua: cucu
 * Irish: cuach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, カッコウ
 * Karakalpak: a'tsho'k
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: кӧӧк
 * Korean: 뻐꾸기,
 * Kumyk: атъёкъ
 * Ladin: cuch
 * Latgalian: dzagiuze
 * Latin: cuculus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: keg, kukūlind
 * Low German:, kukuuk
 * Lower Sorbian: kukawa
 * Lule Sami: giehka, ránatjalådde
 * Luxembourgish: Guckuck


 * Macedonian: кука́вица
 * Maltese: daqquqa kaħla
 * Manx: cooag
 * Maori: kokoea
 * Norman: coucou
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: gauk
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Old English: ġēac
 * Old Norse: gaukr
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: kukuriezo, chuhuriezo, kukuriashka, chuhuriashka
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: cucu
 * Russian:
 * Sami: giehka
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: cucu, cucui, cucuperra, cucuperrai, cucuevvai, cucumarei
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuthag, cuach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кукавица
 * Roman:
 * Shor: кӧӧк
 * Skolt Sami: ǩiõkk
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Sami: gïege
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sudovian: geguze
 * Swahili: kekeo
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kakok
 * Tajik: фохтак, куку, олучахӯрак
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ikatäk
 * Ukrainian: зозу́ля
 * Upper Sorbian: kokula
 * Urdu: کویل
 * Uzbek: kakkuqush,
 * Veps: kägi
 * Vietnamese: chim cu, họ cu cu
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: kägo
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: cog, cogau, cwcw
 * West Frisian:
 * Westrobothnian: gauk, guku
 * Yakut: кэҕэ
 * Yiddish: קוקו


 * Bulgarian: кукане
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: cu cu
 * Kazakh: көк-көк
 * Latgalian: kiukuot
 * Latvian: kūkot


 * Lithuanian: kukuoti
 * Macedonian: ку-ку
 * Mongolian: гүүг гүүг, гүг гүү
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: cu cu


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 狂者


 * Hungarian: zakkant,, ,
 * Japanese: 風狂の人
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To make the call of a cuckoo.
 * 2) To repeat something incessantly.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: кукам
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: kakukkol
 * Macedonian: кука
 * Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠣᠩᠰᡳᠮᠪᡳ
 * Maori: kūī


 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian: ᠱᠣᠭᠱᠤᠤᠷᠯᠠᠮᠦᠢ
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: повтарям монотонно
 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Macedonian: вергла
 * Polish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Crazy; not sane.