a common starling Etymology
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From Middle English starling , sterling , sterlinge , from Old English stærling , from stær ( “ starling ” ) + -ling ( diminutive suffix ) . Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck ( “ starling ” ) .
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starling (plural starlings )
A family, Sturnidae , of passerine birds .
The common starling , Sturnus vulgaris , which has dark, iridescent plumage .
( hydraulic engineering ) An inclosure like a coffer-dam , formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater .
A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus , found in US waters.
Synonyms: boregat , bodieron Derived terms
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Translations
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bird
Afrikaans: spreeu
Albanian: shturë (sq) f , gargull (sq) m
Arabic: زُرْزُور ( zurzūr )
Egyptian Arabic: زرزور m ( zarzūr )
Armenian: սարյակ (hy) ( saryak )
Bashkir: сыйырсыҡ ( sıyırsıq )
Basque: arabazozo
Belarusian: шпак m ( špak )
Bengali: শালিক (bn) ( śalik )
Breton: tred (br) f
Bulgarian: скоре́ц (bg) m ( skoréc )
Catalan: estornell (ca) m
Chechen: алкханч ( alqanč )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 椋鳥 / 椋鸟 (zh) ( liángniǎo )
Crimean Tatar: sıyırcıq
Czech: špaček (cs) m
Danish: stær (da) c
Dutch: spreeuw (nl) m or f
Esperanto: sturno
Estonian: kuldnokk (et) , künnirästas
Faroese: stari m
Finnish: kottarainen (fi)
French: étourneau (fr) m
Friulian: sturnel ?
Galician: estorniño m
Georgian: შოშია ( šošia )
German: Star (de) m
Greek: ψαρόνι (el) n ( psaróni )
Ancient: ψάρ m ( psár )
Hebrew: זַרְזִיר (he) m ( zarzír )
Hungarian: seregély (hu)
Icelandic: stari (is) m
Inari Sami: kottarâš
Indonesian: jalak (id)
Irish: druid f
Italian: storno (it) m
Japanese: 椋鳥 (ja) ( mukudori )
Javanese: jalak (jv)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: alik (ku) , reşêlek (ku) , zerzûr (ku)
Ladin: storno ?
Latin: sturnus m
Latvian: mājas strazds m
Lithuanian: varnėnas (lt) m
Low German: Spree m or f
Lule Sami: sterra
Luxembourgish: Spréif f
Macedonian: сколовра́нец m ( skolovránec )
Maltese: sturnell m
Maori: tāringi
Norman: étourné m ( Guernsey ) , êtourné m ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: stárra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stær m
Nynorsk: stare m , star (nn) m
Occitan: estornèl (oc) m
Old English: stær m
Ossetian: сауцъиу ( sawc’iw )
Ottoman Turkish: صیغیرجق ( sığırcık ) , سار ( sar ) , زرزور ( zurzur ) , چكركه قوشی ( çekirge kuşu )
Persian: سار (fa) ( sâr ) , ساری (fa) ( sâri )
Polish: szpak (pl) m anim
Portuguese: estorninho (pt) m
Romanian: graur (ro) m
Romansch: sturnel ?
Russian: скворе́ц (ru) m ( skvoréc )
Sardinian: istùrulu campinu ? , sturru grandinau ?
Scottish Gaelic: druid f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чво́рак m
Roman: čvórak (sh) m
Slovak: škorec (sk) m
Slovene: škorec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: škórc m
Upper Sorbian: škórc m
Spanish: estornino (es) m
Swedish: stare (sv) c
Tagalog: martines
Talysh: шор
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sığırcık (tr)
Turkmen: sar
Ukrainian: шпак m ( špak )
Venetian: strioło m
Volapük: sturnod (vo)
Welsh: drudwen f
West Frisian: protter (fy) c
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