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뻐꾹

The cuckoo adult (top) mimics the predatory sparrowhawk, giving the female time to lay her eggs parasitically without being seen to do so.

Common cuckoo song, Kaluga region, Russia

This reed warbler adult is feeding a common cuckoo chick.

Roman: ppeokkug

Adverb

1. 뻐꾸기 또는 뻐꾹새가 우는 소리.

   The onomatopoeia of the cuckoo's cry. The bird itself is globally named onomatopeically. See Comparatives below.

Compounds

• 뻐꾹새 (ppeokkug-sae, "common cuckoo")
• 뻐꾹이 (ppeokkug-i) > 뻐꾸기 (ppeokkugi, "common cuckoo")

Comparatives

Adapted from cuckoo #Translations. Which do you think sounds closest to the common cuckoo's cry?

Albanian: qyqe Arabic: وَقْوَاق‎ (waqwāq) Armenian: կկու (kku) Bashkir: кәкүк (käkük) Basque: kuku Belarusian: зязю́ля (zjazjúlja) Breton: koukoug Bulgarian: ку́кувица (kúkuvica) Catalan: cucut Cornish: koukou Czech: kukačka Danish: gøg Dutch: koekoek Estonian: kägu Finnish: käki French: coucou Friulian: cuc Galician: cuco Georgian: გუგული (guguli) German: Kuckuck

Greek: κούκος (koúkos) Hebrew: קוּקִיָה‎ (kukiyá) Hungarian: kakukk Icelandic: gaukur Irish: cuach Italian: cuculo Japanese: 郭公 (かっこう, kakkō) Kazakh: көкек (kökek) Korean: 뻐꾸기 (ppeokkugi) Latin: cuculus Lithuanian: gegutė Luxembourgish: Guckuck Macedonian: кука́вица (kukávica) Maori: kokoea Norwegian: gjøk Occitan: coguol Persian: کوکو‎ (kuku) Polish: kukułka Portuguese: cuco Romanian: cuc Russian: куку́шка (kukúška)

Sami: giehka Sanskrit: कोकिल (kokila) Sardinian: cucu Serbo-Croatian: kukavica Slovak: kukučka Slovene: kukavica Spanish: cuco Swahili: kekeo Swedish: gök Tagalog: kakok Tajik: куку (kuku) Telugu: కోకిల (kōkila) Turkish: guguk Ukrainian: зозу́ля (zozúlja) Uzbek: kakkuqush Welsh: cog, cogau West Frisian: koekoek Yiddish: קוקו‎ (kuku)