scops owl

See also: scops-owl

English

Alternative forms

• scops-owl

Etymology

From Latin scops, from Ancient Greek σκώψ (skṓps, “a type of small owl”), from σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “I look at”).

Noun

scops owl (plural scops owls)

1. A small European migratory owl, Otus scops, that winters in sub-Saharran Africa.
2. Any owl of the Old World genus Otus.

Synonyms

• (Otus scops): European scops owl, Eurasian scops owl

Translations

Otus scops

• Albanian: gjon (sq) m, lorëz (sq) f, qok (sq) m
• Asturian: curuxín (ast), curuxina (ast)
• Basque: apo-hontz
• Breton: toud korr m
• Bulgarian: чухал m (čuhal)
• Catalan: xot (ca) m, xut (ca) m, mussol (ca) m
• Czech: výreček malý m
• Danish: dværghornugle c
• Faroese: lítil kattúla m
• Finnish: kyläpöllönen (fi)
• French: petit-duc (fr) m
• German: Zwergohreule (de) f
• Greek: γκιόνης (el) m (gkiónis)
• Hungarian: füleskuvik
• Irish: ulchabhán scopach m
• Italian: assiolo (it) m, assiuolo m
• Navajo: tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ tsidiłdǫǫhii
• Polish: syczek (pl) m, syczek zwyczajny m
• Portuguese: mocho-de-orelhas m
• Romanian: ciuș (ro) m, ciuf pitic m
• Romansch: piv nanin m
• Russian: сплю́шка (ru) f (spljúška), обыкнове́нная со́вка f (obyknovénnaja sóvka)
• Spanish: autillo (es) m
• Swedish: dvärguv (sv) c
• Turkish: İshak kuşu (tr)

any bird of the genus Otus

• Czech: výreček m
• Finnish: pöllönen (fi)
• Polish: syczek (pl) m

Further reading

• Eurasian scops owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia