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stork¹

  • /stɔɹk/ US
  • /stɔːk/ UK
  • /stoːk/ British, Southern, Standard

Sounds like stalk (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

noun storks

  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. euphemistic The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news. My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Stork²

Where it comes from

Two main origins:

* English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs.

* Borrowed from German Stork, probably a nickname or a habitational surname from a place in Hesse.

proper noun Storks

  1. A surname.

Translations

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noun large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae

Españolcigüeña
한국어황새 hwangsae
日本語鸛 kōnotori
中文鸛 /鹳 guàn, 鸛鳥 /鹳鸟 guànniǎo
हिन्दीराजबक rājbak, लकलक laklak, सारस sāras
Kiswahilikongoti
Portuguêscegonha
Françaiscigogne
DeutschStorch
Italianocicogna
Ελληνικάπελαργός pelargós, λελέκι leléki
Românăbarză, barza-albă, cocostârc
Русскийа́ист áist
Tiếng Việtcò
العربيةلَقْلَق laqlaq
עבריתחֲסִידָה khasidá

noun mythical bringer of babies

中文送子鳥 /送子鸟 sòng zǐ niǎo
Françaiscigogne
DeutschStorch
Русскийа́ист áist

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@misc{stork_2026,
  title = {stork},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stork},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}