# partridge
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English partrich, partriche, pertriche, perdriz, from Old French perdriz, partriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”), probably from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “to fart”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɑːtɹɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: pärʹtrĭj, IPA: /ˈpɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɹɪdʒ

### Noun

partridge (plural partridges or partridge)
* (ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
    On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 80:...and the loudest sound in the lonely fields was when, adventuring too near some late brood, the partridge sought to deceive by a plaintive cry and seeming helplessness, crossing before your very feet, till, when drawn to a sufficient distance, suddenly the air vibrated to the flutter of her active pinions.
* (obsolete, military) A type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones.

#### Derived terms

* African partridge
* and a partridge in a pear tree
* Arabian partridge (Alectoris melanocephala)
* bamboo partridge (Bambusicola spp.)
* Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara)
* black partridge (Melanoperdix niger)
* bearded wood partridge (Dendrortyx barbatus)
* birch partridge (Bonasa umbellus)
* blackheaded partridge
* black wood-partridge (Melanoperdix niger)
* blood partridge (Ithaginis cruentus)
* Bonham's partridge
* buff-breasted partridge
* California partridge
* capoeira partridge
* chestnut-breasted partridge (Arborophila mandellii)
* chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar)
* collared partridge (Arborophila gingica)
* common partridge (Perdix perdix)
* crested partridge (Rollulus rouloul)
* crested wood partridge (Rollulus rouloul)
* crimson-headed partridge
* Daurian partridge
* East Asian forest partridge (Tropicoperdix spp.)
* English partridge (Perdix perdix)
* ferruginous wood partridge
* French partridge (Alectoris rufa)
* Gambel's partridge
* gray partridge, grey partridge (Perdix perdix)
* Greek partridge
* green-legged partridge, green-legged hill partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus)
* green wood partridge (Rollulus rouloul)
* Guiana partridge
* Hainan partridge (Arborophila ardens)
* Hey's partridge
* hill partridge (Arborophila torqueola)
* Himalayan partridge
* Hodgson’s partridge
* Hungarian partridge (Perdix perdix)
* long-billed partridge
* Madagascar partridge
* Massena partridge
* monal-partridge
* mountain partridge
* Namaqua partridge
* night partridge
* painted partridge (Francolinus pictus)
* partridge berry, partridge-berry, partridgeberry
* partridge-breast
* partridge-breasted aloe (Gonialoe variegata)
* partridge breeder
* partridge brood
* partridge bush (Leucospermum truncatulum)
* partridge cane
* partridge Cochin
* partridge country
* partridge dance
* partridge dove (Geotrygon sp.)
* partridge drive
* partridge-driving
* partridge feather
* partridge fillet
* partridge hackle
* partridge hawk
* partridge-legged clover
* partridge-like
* partridge mew
* partridge-mortar
* partridge net
* partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)
* partridge pie
* partridge pigeon (Geophaps scripta)
* partridge plum
* partridge poult
* partridger
* partridge shell (Tonna perdix)
* partridge shooter
* partridge shooting
* partridge-shot
* partridge tun (Tonna perdix)
* partridge-vine (Mitchella repens)
* partridge wing
* partridge-wood (Andira inermis; Millettia stuhlmannii; Stereum frustulosum)
* partridging
* Philby's partridge
* plumed partridge (Oreortyx pictus)
* Przevalski's partridge
* red-billed partridge (Arborophila rubrirostris)
* red-crowned wood partridge (Rollulus rouloul)
* red-legged partridge, redlegged partridge (Alectoris rufa)
* Rubeho forest partridge
* rock partridge (Alectoris graeca)
* rufous throated partridge (Arborophila rufogularis)
* Sabah partridge (Tropicoperdix graydoni)
* sand partridge
* sanguine partridge
* scaly-breasted partridge (Tropicoperdix chloropus)
* sea partridge (Symphodus melops)
* see-see partridge (Ammoperdix griseogularis)
* Sichuan partridge (Arborophila rufipectus)
* snow partridge (Lerwa lerwa)
* spruce partridge
* stone partridge
* swamp partridge
* Tibetan partridge
* tree partridge
* Udzungwa forest partridge
* water partridge
* white-browed partridge
* white-necklaced partridge (Arborophila gingica)
* white partridge
* wood partridge (Dendrortyx spp.)

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### Further reading

* partridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia