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Borrowed from French guillemot.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪ.lɪ.mɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪ.lə.mɑt/[1]
- Hyphenation: gui‧lle‧mot
guillemot (plural guillemots)
- Any seabird belonging to the genera Uria and Cepphus of the auk family Alcidae. They have black and white bodies and are good at swimming and diving.
Not to be confused with guillemet.
- black guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
- Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia)
- common guillemot (Uria aalge)
- pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba)
- sooty guillemot (Cepphus carbo)
- spectacled guillemot (Cepphus carbo)
- true guillemot (Cepphini spp.)
seabird
- Asturian: aráu (ast), calón (ast), pitorru (ast)
- Bulgarian: кайра f (kajra)
- Catalan: somorgollaire
- Chukchi: ӄэруӄэр (qėruqėr), ӄэрут pl (qėrut)
- Danish: lomvie (da) c, lomvi c
- Dutch: zeekoet (nl) m
- Faroese: lomviga f, lomvigi m
- Finnish: kiisla (fi) (Uria), riskilä (fi) (Cepphus)
- Galician: arao (gl) m
- German: Lumme (de) f
- Greek: ουρία (el) f (ouría), κόλυμβος (el) m (kólymvos)
- Hungarian: lumma (hu)
- Italian: uria (it) f
- Manx: caillagh varrey f, stronnag ghoo f (Cepphus grylle atlantis), stronnag f, çhennel f (Uria aalge)
- Norman: dgillemot m (Jersey), gaude f (Jersey)
- Portuguese: arau (pt) m, airo (pt) m
- Romanian: guilemotă f
- Russian: ка́йра (ru) f (kájra) (Uria), чи́стик (ru) m (čístik) (Cepphus)
- Slovak: svišťúň m, alka (sk) f, norec m
- Spanish: arao m
- Welsh: gwylog f
- ^ “guillemot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Diminutive of the male given name Guillaume, used as a common noun.
guillemot m (plural guillemots)
- “guillemot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.