köken: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl centzontleh, shortened form of centzontlahtōleh (“mockingbird”, literally “possessor of four hundred words”), from centzontli (“four hundred, a count of four hundred”) + tlahtōlli (“language, word, statement”) + -eh (“possessor of”).
mimic, imitator (someone who apes or imitates) · mockingbird
çekim: çoğul hermikrákur · tamlayan hermikráku
köken: From hermi- (“copy, imitative”) + kráka (“a crow”), compare the verb herma (“to mimic”) and the noun hermir (“a simulator”).
Tagalogcamimido
Malaycaburung ajuk-ajuk
Esperantomokbirdo
Makedoncaподби́вница
Etimoloji
Compound of spotten (“to mock”) + lijster (“thrush”). The literal translation of mockingbird is spotvogel, which in Dutch instead refers to a different species of bird native to Europe.