shrike

English

Etymology

From Middle English *schrike, *schryke, from Old English sċrīc (“shrike, thrush”), from the same root as shriek and screech, named after the bird's cry. Compare Icelandic skríkja (“shrieker, shrike”), Swedish skrika (“jay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɹaɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

shrike (plural shrikes)

1. Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.

   

Synonyms

• butcherbird

Derived terms

• African long-tailed shrike
• brown shrike
• bush shrike
• crow shrike
• cuckoo shrike
• drongo shrike
• great grey shrike
• great northern shrike
• isabelline shrike
• lesser grey shrike
• loggerhead shrike
• long-tailed shrike
• magpie shrike
• masked shrike
• mountain shrike
• northern shrike
• piping shrike
• red-backed shrike
• red-tailed shrike
• shrike-tanager
• shrike thrush
• shrike tit
• shrike-vireo
• swallow shrike
• toddy shrike
• white-tailed shrike
• woodchat shrike

 

Translations

Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae

• Assamese: বাঘ চৰাই (bagh sorai), এৰাখাতী (erakhati)
• Asturian: picanzu
• Basque: antzandobi
• Breton: pig-spern
• Bulgarian: сврака (bg) f (svraka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: сорокопуд (sorokopud)
• Catalan: capsigrany (ca) m, capsot (ca) m, botxí (ca) m, escorxador (ca) m, trenca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Literary Chinese: 鴃

  Mandarin: 伯劳 (zh) (bóláo)

• Czech: ťuhýk (cs) m
• Danish: tornskade
• Dutch: klauwier (nl) m, klapekster (nl) m
• Esperanto: lanio
• Estonian: õgija
• Faroese: tyrningur
• Finnish: lepinkäinen (fi)
• French: pie-grièche (fr) f
• Galician: picanzo
• German: Würger (de) m
• Hungarian: gébics (hu), gábos
• Irish: sríoc f, scréachán
• Italian: averla (it)
• Japanese: モズ (ja) (mozu)
• Kazakh: тағанақ (tağanaq)
• Korean: 때까치 (ko) (ttaekkachi)
• Kumyk: къаргъанат (qarğanat)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kêzxwer, kêzxur, kêzxwar, kîrkok

• Kyrgyz: борбаштар (borbaştar)
• Latvian: čakste
• Lithuanian: medšarkė
• Malay: tirjup
• Navajo: zahalániitsoh
• North Frisian: wirger
• Northern Sami: skirrit
• Norwegian: varsler (no)
• Ottoman Turkish: اورمجك قوشی (örümcek kuşu)
• Persian: ورکاک (varkâk), ستوجه (setuje)
• Picard: agache-écreuhèle
• Polish: dzierzba (pl), srokosz (pl)
• Portuguese: picanço (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਲਟੋਰਾ m (laṭorā)
• Romanian: sfrâncioc (ro)
• Russian: сорокопу́т (ru) m (sorokopút)
• Sanskrit: फिङ्गक (sa) m (phiṅgaka)
• Scots: shrike
• Serbo-Croatian: svračak (sh) m
• Slovene: srakoper (sl)
• Spanish: alcaudón (es) m, verdugo (es) m
• Swahili: mbwigu
• Swedish: törnskata (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: örümcek kuşu (tr)
• Ukrainian: сорокопуд (sorokopud)
• Uzbek: qarqunoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: bách thanh (vi)
• Welsh: cigydd (cy) m
• Yakut: кэргэннэрэ (kergennere)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shrike”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Ihrkes, hikers, shriek