a vernacular name for an animal species with a charactistic red (spot on) the chest, notably: · synonym of gekraagde roodstaart (“Phoenicurus phoenicurus”)
çekim: çoğul roodborsten
köken: From rood + borst. Primarily found in the diminutive, and attested in the diminutive as Middle Dutch roodborstken.
European robin (Erithacus rubecula, a small passerine Old World bird)
çekim: çoğul măcălendri · tamlayan măcăleandrului
köken: Unknown. Possibly related to Ukrainian маколяндра (makoljandra). Compare Polish makolągwa. Another theory suggests that its origin is Greek χαμαί κάλανδρος (chamaí kálandros, “kind of skylark”), or more unlikely, directly from κάλανδρος (kálandros), and that the Ukrainian word was borrowed from Romanian.