weather vane

See also: weathervane

English

Don Quixote-inspired weather vane, Spain

Alternative forms

• weathervane

Noun

weather vane (plural weather vanes)

1. A mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind.

   Synonyms: vane, weathercock

   • 1913, Willa Cather, “Neighboring Fields, I”, in O Pioneers!:

     From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.

Coordinate terms

• anemoscope
• windsock

Translations

a device showing the direction of the wind

• Arabic: دَوَّارَة رِيَاح f (dawwārat riyāḥ)
• Bulgarian: ветропоказател m (vetropokazatel)
• Catalan: penell (ca) m, gallet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風標／风标 (zh) (fēngbiāo)

• Czech: korouhev (cs) m
• Danish: vindfløj c, vejrhane c
• Dutch: windwijzer (nl) m, windvaan (nl) f
• Esperanto: ventoflago
• Finnish: tuuliviiri (fi)
• French: girouette (fr) f
• Galician: catavento (gl) m, virantenla f, penel m
• German: Wetterfahne (de) f, Windfahne f
• Greek: ανεμοδείκτης (el) m (anemodeíktis)
• Hungarian: szélkakas (hu)
• Ingrian: lippu
• Italian: banderuola (it) f
• Japanese: 風見鶏 (ja) (kazamidori)
• Macedonian: ве́троказ m (vétrokaz)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vindfløy m

  Nynorsk: vindfløy m

• Polish: wiatrowskaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cata-vento (pt) m, ventoinha (pt) f, catavento (pt) m
• Romanian: giruetă (ro) f
• Russian: флю́гер (ru) m (fljúger)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ветроказ m

  Roman: vetrokaz m

• Slovene: vetrokaz m
• Spanish: veleta (es) f
• Swedish: vindflöjel (sv) c

Further reading

• weather vane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia