# vulture
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvʌltʃə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)

### Noun

vulture (plural vultures)
* Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
** 1912, Flight‎:The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
** 1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time:In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
* (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
    Synonyms: ambulance chaser, vampire
    Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.

#### Hyponyms

* American black vulture
* bearded vulture
* black vulture
* cinereous vulture
* Egyptian vulture
* Eurasian black vulture
* greater yellow-headed vulture
* griffon vulture
* Himalayan griffon vulture
* king vulture
* lappet-faced vulture
* monk vulture
* New World vulture
* Old World vulture
* turkey vulture

#### Derived terms

* culture vulture
* Pondicherry vulture
* red-headed vulture
* vulture bee
* vulture capitalism
* vulture capitalist
* vulture culture
* vulture fund
* vulture hock
* vulturelike
* vulturine
* vulturish
* vulturous
* white scavenger vulture

#### Translations

Afrikaans: aasvoël (af)
Aja: gùndú
Akan: opete
Albanian: coftinar m, shkabë (sq) f, gabonjë (sq) f, gjyp m, hutë (sq) f
Apache:
Western Apache: chʼishǫǫgi
Arabic: نَسْر (ar) m (nasr)
Egyptian Arabic: نسر m (nesr)
Aragonese: vueitre
Armenian: անգղ (hy) (angġ)
Old Armenian: անգղ (angł)
Aromanian: vultur m, ornji f
Assamese: শগুন (xogun)
Asturian: utre (ast) f, utra (ast) f, butre (ast) f
Avar: хъвек (qxʷek), чудук (čuduk)
Azerbaijani: leşyeyən
Balinese: please add this translation if you can
Basque: sai, putre
Bats: სოვ (sov)
Belarusian: грыф m (hryf), сіп m (sip), белагало́вы сіп m (bjelahalóvy sip)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Breton: gup (br) m, bultur (br) m
Bulgarian: лешояд (bg) m (lešojad)
Burmese: လင်းတ (my) (lang:ta.)
Burushaski: gaċhir, garmun
Catalan: voltor (ca) m
Central Sierra Miwok: čý·šywitna-
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: tsemo'ye
Chechen: аьрзу (ärzu)
Cherokee: ᏑᎵ (suli)
Chichewa: dembo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 兀鷹 / 兀鹰 (zh) (wùyīng), 鵰 / 雕 (zh) (diāo)
Czech: sup (cs) m
Danish: grib (da) c
Dutch: gier (nl) m
Egyptian: (nrt f)
Esperanto: vulturo (eo)
Estonian: kaeluskotkas
Faroese: gammur m
Finnish: korppikotka (fi)
French: vautour (fr) m, carencro (Cajun)
Friulian: astôr m, variűl
Galician: voitre (gl) m, butre m
Georgian: ორბი (orbi), სვავი (svavi)
Old Georgian: სოვი (sovi)
German: Geier (de) m, Geierin f
Alemannic German: Giir m
Greek: γύπας (el) m (gýpas)
Ancient: γύψ m (gúps), τόργος m (tórgos), αἰγυπιός m (aigupiós)
Greenlandic: nattoraliusaq
Gujarati: ગીધ (gu) n (gīdh)
Haryanvi: गिरहज (girhaj), कर्गस (kargas)
Hausa: ungulu
Hawaiian: wulekula
Hebrew: נשר (he) m (nesher), עוזנייה / עָזְנִיָּה (he) f ('ozniyá)
Hindi: गिद्ध (hi) ? (giddh)
Hungarian: keselyű (hu)
Icelandic: gammur (is) m, gæsagammur m, hrægammur (is) m
Ido: vulturo (io)
Indonesian: nazar (id), hering (id)
Iranun: please add this translation if you can
Irish: badhbh m, garrfhiach m, amach m, bultúr m
Italian: avvoltoio (it) m
Japanese: 禿鷹 (ja) (ハゲタカ, hagetaka), 禿鷲 (ja) (ハゲワシ, hagewashi)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kashmiri: گرَٛد
Kazakh: құмай (qūmai)
Khmer: ត្មាត (km) (tmaat)
Korean: 독수리 (ko) (doksuri)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھەڵۆ (ckb) (hello)
Ladin: valtoi ?
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: vultur (la) m
Latvian: grifs m, maitu lija f
Laz: მარსიღი (marsiği)
Lithuanian: grifas (lt) ?
Luxembourgish: Geier (lb) m
Macedonian: мршојадец m (mršojadec)
Maguindanao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: nasar, hering
Maltese: avultun m
Manx: ushag chonvayrtagh f
Maranao: banog, garoda
Marathi: गिधाड n (gidhāḍ)
Minangkabau: please add this translation if you can
Mingrelian: ფსივი (psivi)
Mon: တမာတ် (kəmat)
Mongolian: тас (mn) (tas), элээ (mn) (elee)
Navajo: jeeshóóʼ
Northern Sami: goaskin, čuonjáráhtogoaskin
Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: gribb m
Occitan: voltor (oc) m
Odia: ଶାଗୁଣା (or) (śāguṇā)
Old English: ultor m
Ossetian: хӕдмӕлхор (xædmælxor)
Ottoman Turkish: آق بابا (ak baba)
Persian: کرکس (fa) (karkas), لاشخور (fa) (lâšxwar)
Polish: sęp (pl) m
Portuguese: abutre (pt) m, urubu (pt) m, condor (pt) m
Quechua: ullasku, wiskul, suwintu
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: vultur (ro) m
Romansch: tschess m
Russian: гриф (ru) m (grif), стервя́тник (ru) m (stervjátnik)
Sanskrit: आज (sa) m (āja)
Sardinian: bentruxiu ?, untruxu ?, murru ?, bentruxu m, venturzu m, guntorzu m, curturzu m, guntruxu ?, intruxu ?, intulzu ?
Scottish Gaelic: fang f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: су̏п m, лѐшина̄р m, стр̀вина̄р m
Latin: sȕp (sh) m, lèšinār (sh) m, str̀vinār (sh) m
Shan: လၢင်းတႃႉ (láang tâ̰a), ၼၢင်းတႃႉ (náang tâ̰a)
Sicilian: vuturu (scn) m, avuturu (scn) m
Slovak: sup m
Slovene: mrhovinar m, jastreb (sl) m (a species of these birds)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sup m
Upper Sorbian: sup m
Spanish: buitre (es) m, zopilote (es) m
Old Spanish: boitre m
Sranan Tongo: krepsi
Svan: სუ̂აუ̂ (sûaû)
Swahili: tai (sw), gushu, tumbusi
Swedish: gam (sv) c
Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: buwitre
Telugu: రాబందు (te) (rābandu)
Thai: อีแร้ง (th) (ee ráeng), แร้ง (th) (ráeng)
Tibetan: བྱ་རྒོད (bya rgod), རྒོད (rgod)
Turkish: akbaba (tr)
Ukrainian: гриф m (hryf), па́дальник m (pádalʹnyk)
Urdu: گدھ m (giddh)
Uzbek: jo'rchi (uz), kalxat (uz)
Venetan: voltor ?, avoltogio ?
Vietnamese: kền kền (vi)
Volapük: vultur (vo)
Welsh: fwltur m or f, fultur m or f, fwlturiaid m pl or f pl
West Frisian: gier c
Wolof: tan mi
Yiddish: גריף m (grif)
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can :
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### Verb

vulture (third-person singular simple present vultures, present participle vulturing, simple past and past participle vultured)
* (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.
    Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.

### Adjective

vulture
* (obsolete) ravenous; rapacious
** 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

### Further reading

* vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Latin
### Noun

vulture
* ablative singular of vultur