stork

See also: Stork and Störk

English

Wikispecies

A stork.

Etymology

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: stôrk, IPA^(key): /stɔɹk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɔːk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: stalk (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

stork (plural storks)

1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
2. (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
3. (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

• adjutant stork
• black-necked stork
• black stork
• giant stork
• hair-crested stork
• maguari stork
• marabou stork
• milky stork
• Oriental stork
• saddle-billed stork
• stork-billed
• stork bite
• storky
• white stork
• wood stork

 

Translations

large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae

• Afrikaans: ooievaar
• Akkadian: 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (/⁠laqlaqqu⁠/)
• Albanian: shtërg (sq) m, kanushë (sq) f, lejlek (sq)
• Arabic: لَقْلَق m (laqlaq)

  Egyptian Arabic: لقلق m (laʔlaʔ), حديج (ħodēg)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܩܠܵܩܵܐ m (laqlāqā)

  Classical Syriac: ܚܘܪܒܐ (ḥurbā)

• Armenian: արագիլ (hy) (aragil)

  Old Armenian: արագիլ (aragil), տառեղն (taṙełn)

• Assamese: সাৰেং (xareṅ)
• Asturian: cigüeña (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: leylək
• Bashkir: ҡауҙы (qawźı)
• Basque: amiamoko (eu), zikoina (eu)
• Bats: ფჰ̡იტიდაუ̌ყუ̂ (ph̡iṭidaǔq̇û)
• Belarusian: бу́сел (be) m (búsjel), баця́н (be) m (bacján)
• Breton: c'hwibon (br)
• Bulgarian: щъ́ркел m (štǎ́rkel)
• Catalan: cigonya (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鸛／鹳 (zh) (guàn), 鸛鳥／鹳鸟 (guànniǎo)

• Cornish: hwibon
• Czech: čáp (cs) m
• Danish: stork (da)
• Dutch: ooievaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: cikonio
• Estonian: toonekurg (et)
• Faroese: storkur (fo) m
• Finnish: kattohaikara (fi)
• French: cigogne (fr) f
• Friulian: cicogne
• Galician: cegoña (gl)
• Georgian: ყარყატი (q̇arq̇aṭi)
• German: Storch (de) m, Adebar (de) m (dialectal or poetic)
• Greek: πελαργός (el) (pelargós), λελέκι (el) n (leléki)

  Ancient: πελαργός (pelargós)

• Hebrew: חֲסִידָה (he) f (khasidá)
• Hindi: राजबक m (rājbak), लकलक (hi) m (laklak), सारस (hi) m (sāras)
• Hungarian: gólya (hu), eszterág (hu) (rare)
• Icelandic: storkur (is)
• Indonesian: bangau (id)
• Irish: storc
• Italian: cicogna (it) f
• Japanese: 鸛 (ja) (コウノトリ, kōnotori)
• Karaim: бусел, бусйол, бусол
• Karakalpak: ләйлек
• Kazakh: ләйлек (läilek), дегелек (degelek)
• Korean: 황새 (hwangsae)
• Kumyk: лакълакъ (laqlaq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەقلەق (leqleq), حاجی لەقلەق (ḧacî leqleq)

• Kyrgyz: илегилек (ky) (ilegilek)
• Ladin: zicogna
• Latgalian: žugure f
• Latin: cicōnia f
• Latvian: stārķis m, stārks m
• Ligurian: çighéugna f
• Lithuanian: gandras (lt) m, starkus m (dialect)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: aiber (nds) (Gronings)

  German Low German: Stork m, Störk m, Aadboor (nds) m, Eebeer m

• Lower Sorbian: bośon
• Luxembourgish: Storch m
• Macedonian: штрк m (štrk)
• Malagasy: falamakavava (mg)
• Malay: burung botak, ranggung
• Maltese: ċikonja
• Maori: tāka
• Mingrelian: ყარყანტი (q̇arq̇anṭi)
• Nanai: уйгун (ujgun)
• Navajo: tsídii bidaanézí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stork (no) m

  Nynorsk: stork m

• Occitan: cigonha (oc)
• Old English: storc m
• Ottoman Turkish: لكلك (leklek, leylek)
• Pashto: لکلک m (laklák), لګلګ m (laglág), تېکړک m (tikṛák), لبغ m (labáǧ), کومل m (kumál)
• Persian: لک‌لک (fa) (lak-lak)
• Piedmontese: sigogna f
• Polish: bocian (pl) m, bociek (pl) m, bocianica (pl) f
• Portuguese: cegonha (pt)
• Romani: kokosturko m
• Romanian: barză (ro) f, barza-albă f, cocostârc (ro) m (regional)
• Romansch: cicogna
• Russian: а́ист (ru) m (áist)
• Sardinian: cicògna, cicónnia, tziconna
• Scottish Gaelic: corra-bhàn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро́да f, штр̑к m

  Roman: róda (sh) f, štȓk (sh) m

• Slovak: bocian (sk) m
• Slovene: štọ̑rklja (sl) f
• Spanish: cigüeña (es) f
• Svan: ჭო̈̄რ (č̣ȫr)
• Swahili: kongoti
• Swedish: stork (sv)
• Tajik: лаклак (laklak)
• Tatar: ләкләк (tt) (läkläk)
• Turkish: leylek (tr)
• Turkmen: leglek
• Tyap: a̱ba̱lee (kcg)

  Cyrillic: леглек f

• Ukrainian: леле́ка m (leléka), чорногу́з m (čornohúz), бу́сел (uk) m (búsel)
• Upper Sorbian: baćon
• Urdu: سارس m (sāras)
• Uyghur: لەيلەك (leylek)
• Uzbek: laylak (uz)
• Vietnamese: cò (vi)
• Volapük: stork (vo)
• Votic: kurki, kurtši (Kattila)
• Welsh: ciconia, storc, storciaid m pl
• West Frisian: earrebarre (fy)

mythical bringer of babies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送子鳥／送子鸟 (sòng zǐ niǎo)

• Czech: čáp (cs) m (stork, for boys), vrána (cs) f (crow, for girls)
• Finnish: haikara (fi)
• Polish: bocian (pl) m
• Russian: а́ист (ru) m (áist)
• Swedish: storken (sv) c

See also

• crane
• egret
• heron

Anagrams

• Korts, skort, torsk

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish stork, from Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]

Noun

stork c (singular definite storken, plural indefinite storke)

1. stork

Declension

Declension of stork

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stork	storken	storke	storkene
genitive	storks	storkens	storkes	storkenes

References

• “stork” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch storke, from Old Dutch *stork, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔrk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: stork
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

Noun

stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)

1. (dialectal, uncommon) Synonym of ooievaar (“Ciconia ciconia”)
   • 1700, Mosaïze historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, part 2, publ. by Willem & David Goeree, page 461, quoting a saying.

     Het regtschaapen Haagze Waapen, is een Stork; / Dats een Mikker voor de Kikker en de Work.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1864, J. A. Klokman, “Een Achterhoeksche boerenzoon, die Artis bezoekt”, in Het leeskabinet. Mengelwerk tot gezellig onderhoud voor beschaafde kringen, volume 4, 18:

     En betjen vèrder, regs af daor, trof ik 'n heele boel van die lankbeenige veugele an; 'et wazzen allerlei vremde soorten van kranen, storken (ooijevaars) en zuk goed; van die storken hadden ze spierwitte en pikzwarte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• zwarte stork

Icelandic

Noun

stork

1. indefinite accusative singular of storkur

Middle English

Alternative forms

• storc, storck, storke

Etymology

From Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔrk/

Noun

stork (plural storkes)

1. stork

Descendants

• English: stork
• Scots: stork

References

• “stork, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr.

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storker, definite plural storkene)

1. a stork

Derived terms

• storkenebb

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr.

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storkar, definite plural storkane)

1. stork

Derived terms

• storkenebb

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

Noun

stork

1. stork

Descendants

• Danish: stork

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.

Noun

stork c

1. (zoology) stork

Inflection

Declension of stork
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stork	storken	storkar	storkarna
Genitive	storks	storkens	storkars	storkarnas

Anagrams

• korts, skrot, torsk

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English stork.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stoɾk/

Noun

stork (nominative plural storks)

1. (male or female) stork

Declension

declension of stork

	singular	plural
nominative	stork	storks
genitive	storka	storkas
dative	storke	storkes
accusative	storki	storkis
vocative 1	o stork!	o storks!
predicative 2	storku	storkus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• histork
• historkül
• jistork
• jistorkül
• storkahoned
• storkanäst
• storkül
• storkalög
• storkalögik

Related terms

• stor ( = stork, obsolete)
• storasmabed