# ostrich
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English ostrich, ostriche, ostryche, ostrige, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin *austruthio, from Latin avis (“bird”) + strūthiō (“ostrich”), from Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn), or shortened from strūthiocamēlus, from Ancient Greek στρουθιοκάμηλος (strouthiokámēlos), from στρουθός (strouthós, “sparrow”) + κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”). Compare Spanish avestruz and Portuguese avestruz.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈɒs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/; enPR: ŏs'trĭch, ŏs'trĭj
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɔs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈɑs.tɹɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈɔs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɑs.tɹɪd͡ʒ/; enPR: ôs'trĭch, ŏs'trĭch, ôs'trĭj, ŏs'trĭj
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### Noun

ostrich (plural ostriches)
* (ornithology) A large flightless bird of the order Struthioniformes.
** The most widespread species of the genus, known as the common ostrich (Struthio camelus).
*** 1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?
*** a. 1683 (date written), Thomas Browne, “[Unpublished Papers.] On the Ostrich.”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, Sir Thomas Browne’s Works […], volume IV, London: William Pickering; Norwich, Norfolk: Josiah Fletcher, →OCLC, page 337:The Ostrich hath a compounded name in Greek and Latin—Struthio-Camelus, borrowed from a bird and a beast, as being a feathered and biped animal, yet in some ways like a camel; somewhat in the long neck; somewhat in the foot; and, as some imagine, from a camel-like position in the part of generation.
*** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 17:"But is not this fortunate?" continued she, taking up a superb plume of white ostrich feathers, fastened by a small agraffe, enamelled so as to represent a bunch of violets; "this is just what you wanted for the velvet cap you are to wear at Madame de l'Hôpital's masked ball."
*** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
* (obsolete) The rhea.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 245:The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco love to hunt the ostrich
* (figuratively) One who buries their head in the sand instead of acknowledging problems.
* (golf) The hypothetical completion of a hole five strokes under par (a quintuple birdie, quadruple eagle, triple albatross, or double condor).

#### Alternative forms

* estridge (obsolete)

#### Hyponyms

* American ostrich (Rhea americana)
* Arabian ostrich (†Struthio camelus syriacus)
* Asian ostrich (†Struthio asiaticus)
* Barbary ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus)
* black-necked ostrich (Struthio camelus australis)
* Cape ostrich (Struthio camelus australis)
* common ostrich (Struthio camelus)
* East African ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus)
* Masai ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus)
* North African ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus)
* pink-necked ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus)
* red-necked ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus)
* Somali ostrich or blue-necked ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)
* South African ostrich (Struthio camelus australis)
* southern ostrich (Struthio camelus australis)
* Syrian ostrich (†Struthio camelus syriacus)

#### Coordinate terms

* albatross
* birdie
* bogey
* buzzard
* condor
* eagle
* par

#### Derived terms

* ostrich dinosaur
* ostrich fern
* ostrich instruction
* ostrichism
* ostrichlike
* ostrich policy
* ostrich politics
* osturducken

#### Translations

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Adyghe: мэхъшэбзыу (mɛχšɛbzəwu)
Afar: goroyya
Afrikaans: volstruis (af)
Aghwan: please add this translation if you can
Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: struc (sq) m
Arabic: نَعَامَة f (naʕāma), ظَلِيم m (ẓalīm)
Egyptian Arabic: نعام m (naʕām) (collective), نعامة f (naʕāma) (singulative)
Hijazi Arabic: نعامة f (naʕāma)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܲܥܵܡܵܐ m (naˁāmā)
Classical Syriac: ܢܲܥܵܡܵܐ m (naˁāmā)
Armenian: ջայլամ (hy) (ǰaylam)
Middle Armenian: իշտրմուղ (ištrmuġ), ջայլամ (ǰaylam)
Old Armenian: ջայլամն (ǰaylamn), ջայլեամն (ǰayleamn)
Assamese: উটপক্ষী (utpokhi), উট চৰাই (ut sorai)
Asturian: avestruz (ast) f
Avar: варанихӏинчӏ (waraniḥʳinčʼ)
Azerbaijani: dəvəquşu (az)
Basque: ostruka (eu)
Belarusian: стра́ус m (stráus)
Bengali: উটপাখী (uṭpakhi)
Breton: struskañval m
Bulgarian: щра́ус (bg) m (štráus)
Burmese: ငှက်ကုလားအုတ် (my) (hngakku.la:ut)
Catalan: estruç (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (gvna utana)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鴕鳥 / 鸵鸟 (to$^4$ niu$^5$)
Hakka: 鴕鳥 / 鸵鸟 (thò-niâu)
Hokkien: 鴕鳥 / 鸵鸟 (zh-min-nan) (tô-chiáu), 蹄鳥 / 蹄鸟 (tê-chiáu), 長頷鳥 / 长颔鸟 (tn̂g-ām-chiáu)
Mandarin: 鴕鳥 / 鸵鸟 (zh) (tuóniǎo)
Cornish: strus m
Czech: pštros (cs)
Danish: struds (da)
Dutch: struisvogel (nl) m
Egyptian: (njw)
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Erzya: дуенармунь (dujenarmuń)
Esperanto: struto
Estonian: jaanalind (et)
Faroese: strutsur
Finnish: strutsi (fi)
French: autruche (fr) f
Old French: ostruce f
Friulian: struç
Galician: avestruz (gl) f
Georgian: სირაქლემა (siraklema)
German: Strauß (de) m, Vogelstrauß (de) m
Greek: στρουθοκάμηλος (el) f (strouthokámilos)
Ancient: στρουθοκάμηλος m or f (strouthokámēlos), στρουθίων m (strouthíōn)
Hausa: jimina
Hebrew: יָעֵן (he) f (ya'en)
Hindi: शुतुरमुर्ग़ m (śuturmurġ), शुतुरमुर्ग (hi) m (śuturmurg), शुतुर्मुर्ग (hi) m (śuturmurg), उष्ट्रपक्षी m (uṣṭrapakṣī)
Hungarian: strucc (hu)
Icelandic: strútur (is)
Ido: strucho (io)
Igala: òbìjimu
Igbo: enyi nnụ̀nụ̀
Indonesian: burung unta (id)
Interlingua: struthio, avestruthio
Irish: ostrais, struth m, struth-chamhall m
Istriot: please add this translation if you can
Italian: struzzo (it) m
Japanese: ダチョウ (ja) (dachō), 駝鳥 (ja) (だちょう, dachō)
Kazakh: түйеқұс (tüieqūs)
Khmer: អូទ្រុស (ʼoutruh)
Korean: 타조(駝鳥) (ko) (tajo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hêştirme (ku) n
Kyrgyz: төө куш (ky) (töö kuş)
Ladin: struz
Lao: ກະຈອກເທດ (ka chǭk thēt)
Latin: struthiocamelus m, struthio m
Latvian: strauss m
Ligurian: strûsso m
Lithuanian: strutis (lt) m
Lombard: struzz m
Low German: Struus m
Macedonian: ној m (noj), гајгур m (gajgur)
Malay: burung unta
Malayalam: ഒട്ടകപക്ഷി (oṭṭakapakṣi), ഒട്ടകപ്പക്ഷി (ml) (oṭṭakappakṣi)
Maltese: ngħam m
Maori: otereti
Maranao: tabonan
Marathi: शहामृग m (śahāmŕg)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тэмээн хяруул (temeen xjaruul)
Navajo: tsídiitsoh
Neapolitan: struzzo m
Norman: autruche f
Northern Sotho: mpšhe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: struts (no) m
Nynorsk: struts (nn) m
Occitan: estruci (oc)
Old English: strūta m
Old Norse: strúz m
Oromo: guuchii
Ottoman Turkish: دوه قوشی (deve kuşu)
Pashto: شترمرغ (ps) m (šotormórǧ), اوښمرغه (ps) m (ux̌mǝrǧǝ́)
Persian: شترمرغ (fa) (šotormorğ)
Piedmontese: struss m
Polish: struś (pl) m
Portuguese: avestruz (pt)
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Romani: astrechi m, barimatango m
Romanian: struț (ro) m
Romansch: strut
Russian: стра́ус (ru) m (stráus)
Saho: gooriya
Sardinian: abistrussu, bistrussu, istrutzu
Scottish Gaelic: struth
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: но̏ј m
Roman: nȍj (sh) m
Slovak: pštros m
Slovene: noj (sl) m
Somali: gorayo
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: štrus m
Upper Sorbian: štrus m
Sotho: mpjhe, mpshe (st) sg, dimpshe (st) pl
Spanish: avestruz (es) m
Swahili: mbuni (sw)
Swedish: struts (sv)
Tagalog: abestrus
Tajik: шутурмурғ (šuturmurġ)
Tamil: தீக்கோழி (ta) (tīkkōḻi)
Tatar: тәвә кошы (tt) (täwä qoşı)
Telugu: నిప్పుకోడి (te) (nippukōḍi)
Thai: กระจอกเทศ (th) (grà-jɔ̀ɔk-têet)
Tswana: ntšhe
Turkish: deve kuşu (tr)
Turkmen: düýeguş
Ukrainian: стра́ус m (stráus)
Urdu: شترمرغ m (śuturmurġ)
Uyghur: تۆگىقۇش (tögiqush)
Uzbek: tuyaqush (uz)
Vietnamese: đà điểu (vi)
Volapük: strut (vo)
Walloon: otruche (wa) f
Welsh: estrys f or m
West Frisian: strúsfûgel
Wolof: bànjóoli bi, baa
Yámana: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: שטרויס m (shtroys)
Yoruba: ògòǹgò
Yup'ik: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: intshe :
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### See also

* cassowary
* emu
* kiwi
* nandu
* rhea
* tinamou

### Further reading

* ostrich on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Christo-, chorist, rhotics

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* ostriche, ostrige, ostryche

### Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ostrige and continental Old French ostruce, from Vulgar Latin *austrūthiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔstritʃ/, /ˈɔstridʒ/

### Noun

ostrich (plural ostriches)
* ostrich (Struthio camelus)
* (rare) A goblet made of an ostrich egg.
* (rare, heraldry) A heraldic image of an ostrich.

#### Descendants

* English: ostrich
* Scots: ostriche (obsolete)
* → Welsh: estrys

#### References

* “ostrich(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-4.