nightjar

English

Alternative forms

• nightchurr

Etymology

From night +‎ jar, churr (“a sound, chirp, cry”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtd͡ʒɑː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪtd͡ʒɑɹ/

Noun

nightjar (plural nightjars)

1. Any of various medium-sized nocturnal birds of the family Caprimulgidae, that feed predominantly on moths and other large flying insects.

Derived terms

• Eurasian nightjar, European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)
• Indian nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus)
• owlet-nightjar

Translations

nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae

• Apache:

  Western Apache: goodé

• Assamese: দিনকণা (dinkona)
• Azerbaijani: keçisağan
• Catalan: enganyapastors (ca) m
• Chechen: буьйсанан мокха хьоза (büüsanan moqa ḥʳoza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜鷹／夜鹰 (zh) (yèyīng)

• Czech: lelek (cs) m
• Dutch: nachtzwaluw (nl) f
• Esperanto: kaprimulgo
• Estonian: öösorr (et)
• Finnish: kehrääjä (fi)
• French: engoulevent (fr) m
• Galician: noiteboa f, noitebra f
• German: Ziegenmelker (de) m, Nachtschwalbe (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: κύμινδις m (kúmindis)

• Hausa: yautai m
• Hebrew: תַּחְמָס (he) m (taẖmás)
• Hungarian: lappantyú (hu), kecskefejő (hu)
• Icelandic: náttfari (is) m
• Irish: tuirne lín m
• Italian: caprimulgo (it) m, succiacapre (it) m
• Japanese: 夜鷹 (yotaka)
• Kikuyu: kiugũigũ class 7
• Korean: 쏙독새 (ssokdoksae)
• Luxembourgish: Fléimouk f
• Malay: burung tukang m
• Maltese: buqrajq m
• Manx: hullad rhennee f
• Navajo: naakʼidoolwoshii
• Norman: huppe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: nattravn m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: natteramn m

• Polish: lelek (pl) m
• Portuguese: noitibó (pt) m, bacurau (pt) m, curiango m
• Romanian: caprimulg (ro) m
• Russian: козодо́й (ru) m (kozodój)
• Spanish: chotacabras (es) m, guardacaminos m, caprimulgo m
• Swedish: nattskärra (sv) c
• Turkish: çobanaldatan (tr)
• Vietnamese: cú muỗi
• Welsh: gwalch y nos m, nyddwr m, troellwr m