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Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Sprung from a Partridge
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Partridge.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English pertriche ‘partridge’ (via Old French and Latin from Greek perdix), either a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of the bird or a nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to it, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a partridge. This surname has been established in Ireland since the 17th century. As an American family name, it has probably absorbed some cases of other European surnames with the same meaning, e.g. Italian Pernice.
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Female
Ukrainian
, hospitality, or, the stranger, the foreigner.
Biblical
Making sweet; binding together
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Light of Dawn
Girl/Female
Indian
Name of a sahaabiyyah
Girl/Female
Tamil
Happiness, Joy, Cheerful
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name brought to England by the Normans, of uncertain origin. It may be the Hebrew personal name Lot ‘covering’, which was relatively popular in northern France, or a reduced form of various names formed with the diminutive suffix -lot (originally a combination of -el + -ot), commonly used with women’s names.English : from Middle English lot(t)e ‘lot’, ‘portion’ (Old English hlot), in the sense of an allotted share of land, hence a status name for someone who held such a plot.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a plumber or lead roofer, from lood ‘lead’.German : from a pet form of Ludwig.German : topographic name from the dialect word lott ‘mud’, ‘dirt’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
One who is Heard from Many Dimensions
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German, Jamaican
Son of Harry
Boy/Male
Biblical
Power, prevalency.
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n.
A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
n.
A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
n.
A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.
a.
Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges.
n.
Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
n.
The Himalayan now partridge.
n.
Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.
n.
A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.
n.
Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera.
n.
The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
v. t.
To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
v. i.
To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
n.
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
n.
A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.
n.
A genus of large univalve mollusks, including the partridge shell and tun shells.
n.
A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and fowls of warren.