bustard

English

kori bustard, Ardeotis kori

Etymology

From Middle English bustarde, from an Anglo-Norman blend of Old French bistarde and oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda (“slow bird”), which is actually contradictory as bustards are fast runners.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌs.təd/

Noun

bustard (plural bustards)

1. Any of several large terrestrial birds of the family Otididae that inhabit dry open country and steppes in the Old World.

Derived terms

• Arabian bustard, Ardeotis arabs
• Australian bustard, Ardeotis australis
• black-bellied bustard, Lissotis melanogaster
• buff-crested bustard, Lophotis gindiana
• Denham's bustard, Neotis denhami
• great bustard, Otis tarda
• great Indian bustard, Ardeotis nigriceps
• Hartlaub's bustard, Lissotis hartlaubii
• Heuglin's bustard, Neotis heuglinii
• houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata
• kori bustard, Ardeotis kori
• little brown bustard, Eupodotis humilis
• little bustard, Tetrax tetrax
• Ludwig's bustard, Neotis ludwigii
• Macqueen's bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii
• Nubian bustard, Neotis nuba
• Savile's bustard, Lophotis savilei
• white-bellied bustard, Eupodotis senegalensis

 

Translations

any of several birds of the family Otididae

• Afrikaans: wildepou
• Arabic: حُبَارَى‎ f (ḥubārā)
• Basque: basoilo
• Bulgarian: дропла (bg) (dropla)
• Catalan: avitarda f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鴇, 鸨 (bou²)

  Mandarin: 鴇 (zh), 鸨 (zh) (bǎo)

• Czech: drop (cs) m anim
• Danish: trappe (da) c
• Dutch: trap (nl)
• Finnish: trappi (fi)
• French: outarde (fr) f
• German: Trappe (de) f
• Greek: ωτίδα f (otída)

  Ancient: ὠτίς f (ōtís)

• Hindi: सोहन (hi) m (sohan), तिल्लर (hi) m (tillar), होबार (hi) m (hobār)
• Hungarian: túzok (hu)
• Irish: bustard m
• Italian: otarda (it) f

• Japanese: 野雁 (nogan)
• Khakas: тодах (todax)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چێرگ‎ (ku) (çêrg)

  Northern Kurdish: çirg (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: тоодак (ky) (toodaq)
• Latvian: sīga
• Lithuanian: einis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Trapp f
• Maltese: pitarrun m
• Manchu: ᡥᡠᠮᡠᡩᡠ (humudu), ᡴᠠᠨᠵᡳᡩᡠ (kanjidu)
• Polish: drop (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: abetarda f
• Romanian: dropie (ro) f
• Russian: дрофа́ (ru) f (drofá)
• Slovak: drop m
• Spanish: avutarda (es) f
• Swahili: tandawala
• Swedish: trapp (sv) c
• Turkmen: togdary, toklutaý
• Welsh: gwerniar f

Further reading

• Otididae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Otididae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• basturd

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bustard, from Old French bistarde.

Noun

bustard m (genitive singular bustaird, nominative plural bustaird)

1. bustard

Declension

Declension of bustard

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bustard bustaird Vocative a bhustaird a bhustarda Genitive bustaird bustard Dative bustard bustaird

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bustard na bustaird Genitive an bhustaird na mbustard Dative leis an mbustard don bhustard leis na bustaird

Derived terms

• ar bustard (“in the lurch”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bustard	bhustard	mbustard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "bustard" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.