sparrow hawk

English

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Alternative forms

• sparrow-hawk, sparrowhawk, sparhawk, spar-hawk

Etymology

From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), equivalent to sparrow +‎ hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).

sparrow hawk
American kestrel

Noun

sparrow hawk (plural sparrow hawks)

1. A species of small falcon, Falco sparverius, that preys on grasshoppers and small mammals.
2. A small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.

Synonyms

• (Falco sparverius): American kestrel
• (Accipiter nisus): Eurasian sparrowhawk

Eurasian sparrow hawk

Derived terms

terms derived from sparrowhawk

African little sparrowhawk black sparrowhawk chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk collared sparrowhawk dwarf sparrowhawk Frances’s sparrowhawk imitator sparrowhawk Japanese sparrowhawk Levant sparrowhawk little sparrowhawk Madagascan sparrowhawk New Britain sparrowhawk

Nicobar sparrowhawk Ovambo sparrowhawk red-thighed sparrowhawk rufous-breasted sparrowhawk rufous-chested sparrowhawk rufous-necked sparrowhawk slaty-backed sparrowhawk slaty-mantled sparrowhawk small sparrowhawk vinous-breasted sparrowhawk

Translations

Falco sparverius

• Belarusian: ястраб-перапёлачнік (be) (jástrab-pjerapjólačnik) m
• Bulgarian: малък ястреб (bg) (málǎk jástreb) m
• Catalan: xoriguer americà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雀鷹 (cmn), 雀鹰 (cmn) (quèyīng)

• Czech: poštolka pestrá (cs) f
• Danish: amerikansk tårnfalk (da) c
• Dutch: Amerikaanse torenvalk (nl)
• Finnish: amerikantuulihaukka (fi)

• French: crécerelle d'Amérique (fr) f
• German: Buntfalke (de) m
• Japanese: ハイタカ (ja) (haitaka)
• Russian: ястреб-перепелятник (ru) (jástreb-perepeljátnik) m
• Slovak: jastrab krahulec (sk) m
• Spanish: cernícalo (es) m
• Ukrainian: малий яструб (uk) (malýj jástrub) m

Accipiter nisus

• Albanian: gjeraqina e shkurtës (sq)
• Belarusian: перапёлачнік (be) (pjerapjólačnik) m
• Breton: sparfell c’hlas (br)
• Catalan: esparver (ca)
• Chamicuro: kwe'la
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雀鷹 (cmn), 雀鹰 (cmn) (quèyīng)

• Czech: krahujec obecný (cs) m
• Danish: spurvehøg (da)
• Dutch: sperwer (nl) m
• Esperanto: nizo (eo)
• Estonian: raudkull (et)
• Faroese: spurvaheykur (fo)
• Finnish: varpushaukka (fi)
• French: épervier (fr) m
• Friulian: sparvâl (fur)
• Galician: gabián (gl)
• Georgian: მიმინო (ka) (mimino)
• German: Sperber (de) m
• Greek: ξεφτέρι (el) (xeftéri)
• Hungarian: karvaly (hu)
• Icelandic: sparrhaukur (is)
• Irish: spioróg (ga), naile (ga), speirsheabhac (ga)
• Italian: sparviero (it) m
• Japanese: ハイタカ (ja) (haitaka)
• Korean: 새매 (ko) (saemae)
• Ladin: sparvel pice
• Latin: accipiter (la) m
• Latvian: zvirbuļu vanags (lv)
• Lithuanian: paukštvanagis (lt)
• Lule Sami: tsihtsehábak

• Macedonian: jастреб врапчар (mk) (jástreb vrápčar)
• Maltese: sparvier (mt)
• Northern Sami: dihtti
• Norwegian: spurvehauk (no)
• Occitan: esparvièr (oc)
• Polish: krogulec (pl) m
• Romani: hulyo m, hulyaika f
• Romansch: sprer (rm), sprer pitschen (rm)
• Russian: перепелятник (ru) (perepeljátnik) m
• Sami: dihtti, cihcefálli
• Sardinian: astorittu feridori (sc), scatta de pisci (sc), astoreddu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: speireag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кобац (sh) m

  Roman: kobac (sh) m

• Slovene: skobec (sl) m
• Southern Sami: tsöötsehke-haepkie, tsøøtsehke-haepkie
• Spanish: gavilán (es) m
• Swedish: sparvhök (sv) c
• Ukrainian: перепелятник (uk) (perepeljátnyk) m
• Upper Sorbian: škraholc (hsb), kraholc (hsb)
• Volapük: (♂♀) peär (vo), (♂) hipeär (vo), (♀) jipeär (vo), (♂♀ offspring) peärül (vo), (♂ offspring) hipeärül (vo), (♀ offspring) jipeärül (vo)
• Welsh: gwalch glas (cy)
• West Frisian: sparwer (fy)

See also

• American kestrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:American kestrel
• Sparrow hawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Falco sparverius on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Falco sparverius
• Accipiter nisus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Accipiter nisus
• Falco sparverius on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Falco sparverius
• Accipiter nisus on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Accipiter nisus

References

• “sparrow hawk” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “sparrow hawk” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "sparrow hawk" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.