Wikispecies
A skylark .
Etymology
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From sky + lark .
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake /laik ( “ to play ” ) (from Old Norse leika ( “ to play (as opposed to work) ” ) ); see lark for details.[1]
Pronunciation
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skylark (plural skylarks )
A small brown passerine bird , Alauda arvensis , that sings as it flies high into the air.
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Translations
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small brown passerine bird
Albanian: çerdhukël (sq) f , laureshë e madhe f , laureshë (sq) f , larushe f
Arabic: قُبَّرَة f ( qubbara )
Asturian: calandra (ast)
Azerbaijani: torağay (az)
Belarusian: жа́варанак m ( žávaranak )
Breton: alc'hweder sant Pęr
Bulgarian: чучули́га (bg) f ( čučulíga )
Catalan: alosa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雲雀 / 云雀 (zh) ( yúnquè )
Czech: skřivan polní m
Danish: sanglærke (da) c
Dutch: veldleeuwerik (nl) m
Esperanto: alaŭdo (eo)
Estonian: pőldlőoke
Finnish: kiuru (fi) , leivo (fi) , leivonen (fi)
French: alouette des champs (fr) f
Friulian: lodule , odule
Galician: laverca (gl) f
Gallurese: calandru
Georgian: ტოროლა (ka) ( ṭorola )
German: Feldlerche (de) f
Hungarian: mezei pacsirta (hu) , süsétek
Icelandic: sönglævirki (is) m
Irish: fuiseog f , circín starraiceach m
Italian: allodola (it) f , alauda (it) f ( poetic )
Japanese: 雲雀 (ja) ( hibari )
Kalmyk: торһа ( torğa )
Kannada: ಬಾನಾಡಿ (kn) ( bānāḍi )
Korean: 종다리 (ko) ( jongdari ) , 노고지리 ( nogojiri ) ( obsolete )
Kumyk: торгъай ( torğay )
Ladin: lodola
Latin: alauda f
Latvian: lauku cīrulis
Lithuanian: vieversys (lt)
Lule Sami: vitsur , gieddeurjjá
Macedonian: чучулига f ( čučuliga )
Maltese: alwetta f
Maori: kairaka
Norman: alouaette m , alout'raesse f , alouette f
Northern Sami: leivvoš
Occitan: alauseta (oc) f
Polish: skowronek polny m
Portuguese: cotovia (pt) f , laverca (pt) f , calandra (pt) f , calhandra (pt) f
Romani: chiriklo-gilibano m , chirikli-gilibani f
Romanian: ciocârlie (ro) f
Romansch: lodola
Russian: жа́воронок (ru) m ( žávoronok )
Sami: leivvoš
Sardinian: allòdola
Campidanese: calandiri , calandironi
Logudorese: prantaritta
Sassarese: accuccadìta
Scots: laverock
Scottish Gaelic: uiseag f , topag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пољска шева f
Roman: poljska ševa (sh) f
Slovak: škovránok m
Slovene: poljski škrjanec m
Spanish: alondra común (es) f
Swedish: sånglärka (sv)
Tamil: வானம்பாடி (ta) ( vāṉampāṭi )
Turkish: tarla kuşu (tr)
Ukrainian: жа́йворонок m ( žájvoronok )
Upper Sorbian: škowrončk
Venetian: lòdoła f
Vietnamese: chiền chiện (vi)
Vilamovian: liychła
Volapük: felalaud
Welsh: ehedydd
West Frisian: ljurk
skylark (third-person singular simple present skylarks , present participle skylarking , simple past and past participle skylarked )
( dated , originally nautical ) To jump about joyfully, frolic ; to play around, play tricks.
1851 , Herman Melville , Moby Dick , Chapter 5:I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
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References
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Google Ngram Viewer: "skylark, skylarking "
Peak usage 1900—1925, steady decline thereafter.
Cultural Studies Review , October 2008, p. 40 :
"...'skylarking' is a somewhat outmoded term..."