barn swallow

English

European subspecies, H. r. rustica in Denmark.

Pronunciation

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Noun

barn swallow (plural barn swallows)

1. Hirundo rustica, the most widespread species of swallow in the world; a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings, is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Translations

species of swallow

• Afrikaans: europese swael
• Arabic: خطاف المخازن
• Armenian: գյուղական ծիծեռնակ (gyuġakan ciceṙnak)
• Asturian: andarina (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: kənd qaraquşu
• Belarusian: вясковая ластаўка f (vjaskóvaja lastaŭka)
• Bengali: পাতি আবাবিল (pati ababil)
• Bulgarian: селска лястовица f (selska ljastovica)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏃᏍᏓᏱ (anosdayi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家燕 (zh) (jiāyàn)

• Chuvash: ял чӗкеҫӗ (jal č̬ĕk̬eś̬ĕ)
• Czech: vlaštovka (cs) f
• Danish: landsvale (da) c, forstuesvale c
• Dutch: boerenzwaluw (nl) f
• Finnish: haarapääsky (fi)
• French: hirondelle rustique (fr) f, hirondelle de cheminée (fr) f, hirondelle des granges (fr) f
• Galician: anduriña (gl) f
• Georgian: სოფლის მერცხალი (soplis mercxali)
• German: Rauchschwalbe f
• Greek: σταβλοχελίδονο n (stavlochelídono), χελιδόνι (el) n (chelidóni)
• Greenlandic: tulugarnaq
• Guaraní: mbyju'i-jetapa, mbyju'i jetapa
• Hebrew: סנונית הרפתות
• Hungarian: füsti fecske (hu)
• Icelandic: landsvala (is) f
• Ingrian: kotipääskö
• Inuktitut: tulugarnaq
• Italian: rondine comune
• Japanese: 燕 (ja) (ツバメ, tsubame)
• Kazakh: қыстау қарлығашы (qystau qarlyğaşy)
• Khakas: аал харачхайы (aal xaraçxayı)
• Korean: 제비 (ko) (jebi)
• Latin: hirundo f
• Latvian: bezdelīga f
• Manx: gollan geayee
• Mongolian: ᠠᠰᠠᠷ ᠤᠨ
  ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ
  ᠬᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠴᠠᠢ (asar-un altan qariyačai)
• Navajo: táshchozhiiłchííʼ
• Northern Sami: suorrespálfu, ^{(please verify)} čuonjáráhtogoaskin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: låvesvale f

  Nynorsk: låvesvale f

• Occitan: ironda (oc) f
• Ojibwe: ᔕᔕᐊᐧᓂᐱᓯ
• Persian: چلچله (fa) (čelčele), بلوایه (fa) (bolvâye)
• Plautdietsch: Husschwaulm n
• Polish: dymówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: andorinha-de-bando f, andorinha-das-chaminés f, andorinha comum f
• Romanian: randunea f
• Russian: дереве́нская ла́сточка f (derevénskaja lástočka), каса́тка (ru) f (kasátka)
• Serbo-Croatian: lastavica (sh) f
• Slovene: kmečka lastovka f
• Spanish: golondrina (es) f
• Sudovian: smikuta f
• Swedish: ladusvala (sv) c
• Tagalog: layang-layang
• Tamil: தகைவிலான் (takaivilāṉ)
• Thai: นกนางแอ่นบ้าน (nók naaŋ-àeen bâan)
• Tswana: pêolwane
• Turkish: kır kırlangıcı (tr)
• Turkmen: kır kırlangıcı
• Ukrainian: ластівка f (lastivka)

Further reading

• barn swallow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hirundo rustica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hirundo rustica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• barn swallow at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.