German

Noun

Fink m ‎(genitive Finken or Finks, plural Finken)

1. finch

Usage notes

The word may have weak or strong declension; colloquially it is almost exclusively strong.

Declension

Weak declension:

Strong declension:

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *fink, from Proto-Germanic *finkiz. More at finch.

Noun

Fink m

1. (zoology) finch

Derived terms

• Buukfink
• Tieselfink

English

Noun

fink ‎(plural finks)

1. (chiefly US, slang) A contemptible person; an informer; a strikebreaker

Translations

Verb

fink ‎(third-person singular simple present finks, present participle finking, simple past and past participle finked)

1. (chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on

Derived terms

• fink out

Translations

References

• “fink” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• “fink” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007) (lists 3 noun and 2 verb senses, all of which are characterized as dated)
• "fink" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “fink” in the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• fing

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spinga, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos ‎(“chaffinch”), identical with Greek σπίγγος ‎(spíngos, “id”), English spink, Old Norse spiki ‎(“kind of bird”). One might also consider a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *finkiz, *finkōn ‎(“finch”), possibly Balkan Gothic.

Noun

fink m (indefinite plural finkë, definite singular finku, definite plural finkët)

1. finch

Related terms

• beng

Swedish

Noun

fink c

1. a finch (bird)

Declension

Compounds

• bergfink
• bofink

References

• fink in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)