Teal in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “teal” in Hindi is चैती, pronounced chaiti — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic.
As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.
The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
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As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.
The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
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