Etymology
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From Late Middle English ospray, from Anglo-Norman ospriet, from Medieval Latin avis prede (“bird of prey”), a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage.
Pronunciation
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osprey (plural ospreys)
- A bird of prey (Pandion haliaetus) that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
- 1594, George Peele (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
- I will provide thee of a princely osprey.
1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):But (oh Jove!) your actions, / Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, / Subdue before they touch.
2023 August 24, Mairead Sheehy, “'Like finding long-lost treasure': Ospreys breed in Ireland for first time in 200 years”, in Irish Examiner[1]:A pair of ospreys bred at a confidential nesting site in Co. Fermanagh in what has been described as like finding long-lost treasure.
- Aigrette (ornamental feather).
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Translations
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bird of prey
- Afrikaans: visarend, visvalk
- Albanian: shqipe e zezë f, shqiponjë peshkngrënëse f, petrit peshkngrënës m
- Arabic: عُقَاب نَسْرِيّ m (ʕuqāb nasriyy)
- Bashkir: кәлмәргән (kəlmərgən)
- Basque: arrano arrantzale
- Breton: erer-spluj m
- Bulgarian: орел рибар (orel ribar)
- Catalan: àguila pescadora f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 魚鷹/鱼鹰 (zh) (yúyīng), 鶚/鹗 (zh) (è)
- Cree: ᐊᐱᐢᑿᕀ (apiskway)
- Czech: orlovec m
- Danish: fiskeørn (da) c
- Dutch: visarend (nl) m
- Esperanto: fiŝaglo
- Estonian: kalakotkas (et)
- Faroese: fiskiørn f
- Finnish: sääksi (fi), kalasääski (fi)
- French: balbuzard (fr) m, balbuzard pêcheur (fr) m, orfraie (fr) f
- Georgian: შაკი (šaḳi)
- German: Fischadler (de) m
- Greek: αλιάετος (el) m (aliáetos)
- Ancient: ἁλιάετος m (haliáetos)
- Hebrew: שָׁלָךְ (he) m (shalách)
- Hungarian: halászsas (hu)
- Icelandic: gjóður (is) m
- Indonesian: elang tiram
- Irish: coirneach m, iascaire coirneach m
- Italian: falco pescatore m, aquilastro m
- Japanese: 鶚 (ja) (misago)
- Klamath-Modoc: dokdokw'as
- Komi-Zyrian: чери варыш (ćeri varyš), скӧпун (sköpun)
- Korean: 물수리 (ko) (mulsuri)
- Latgalian: kirluons m
- Latin: ossifragus m, haliaeetus m
- Latvian: zivjērglis
- Lithuanian: žuvininkas (lt) m
- Low German: Fischaadler m, Fischarend m
- Lutshootseed: c̓ixʷc̓ixʷ
- Manx: shawk eeastee m
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: сака (saka)
- Western Mari: сексӹ (seksÿ)
- Navajo: táłkááʼ naalzheehí
- Negidal: оломо̄н (olomōn)
- Norman: orfinne f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fiskeørn m or f
- Nynorsk: fiskeørn f or m
- Old English: herefong m
- Polish: rybołów (pl) m, rybołów zwyczajny (pl) m
- Portuguese: águia-pesqueira f
- Romanian: vultur-pescar (ro) m
- Russian: скопа́ (ru) f (skopá)
- Scots: fish hawk
- Scottish Gaelic: iolair-uisge f, iolair-iasgaich f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: орао рибар m
- Roman: orao ribar (sh) m
- Slovak: kršiak rybár m, kršiak rybožravý m, orliak riečny m
- Slovene: ribji orel
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: rybjecy hodlaŕ m
- Spanish: águila pescadora f, gavilán pescador m, guincho (es) m
- Swahili: kipungu
- Swedish: fiskgjuse (sv)
- Telugu: కురరము (te) (kuraramu)
- Tocharian B: kurār-lūwo
- Turkish: balık kartalı (tr)
- Udmurt: чорыгасьдушес (ćorygaśdušes)
- Volapük: melakvil
- Welsh: gwalch y pysgod
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