lapwing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lapwynge, lapwynke, lappewincke, lapwynche, lhapwynche, from Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), from Old English hlēapan (“to leap”) + wincian (“to wink, make a sign”), due to its manner of flight. Cognate with West Frisian ljip (“lapwing”).
The modern form is influenced by folk etymology to resemble English wing.
Inflected forms:
form: lapwings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
pos: noun
examples: Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
gloss: Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A silly man.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
Related words: plover
Derived words: African wattled lapwing
Andean lapwing
banded lapwing
black-headed lapwing
blacksmith lapwing
black-winged lapwing
brown-chested lapwing
cayenne lapwing
crowned lapwing
gray-headed lapwing
gray lapwing
Javan lapwing
long-toed lapwing
masked lapwing
northern lapwing
pied lapwing
red-wattled lapwing
river lapwing
Senegal lapwing
sociable lapwing
southern lapwing
spot-breasted lapwing
spur-winged lapwing
wattled lapwing
white-crowned lapwing
white-headed lapwing
white-tailed lapwing
yellow-wattled lapwing
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bibikinə
lang: Belarusian
word: кні́гаўка
roman: kníhawka
lang: Belarusian
word: чы́біс
roman: čýbis
lang: Bulgarian
word: калу́герица
roman: kalúgerica
lang: Catalan
word: fredeluga
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 田鳧 /田凫
roman: tiánfú
lang: Czech
word: čejka
lang: Danish
word: vibe
lang: Dutch
word: kievit
lang: Dutch
word: kieviet
lang: Esperanto
word: vanelo
lang: Faroese
word: vípa
lang: Finnish
word: hyyppä
lang: French
word: vanneau
lang: West-Frisian
word: ljip
lang: Galician
word: galdaripo
lang: Galician
word: tamouca
lang: Galician
word: tabuela
lang: Georgian
word: პრანწია
roman: ṗranc̣ia
lang: German
word: Kiebitz
lang: Greek
word: καλημάνα
roman: kalimána
lang: Hungarian
word: bíbic
lang: Icelandic
word: vepja
lang: Ido
word: vanelo
lang: Irish
word: adhaircín
lang: Irish
word: pilibín
lang: Italian
word: vanello
lang: Japanese
word: タゲリ
roman: tageri
lang: Lithuanian
word: pempė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Piwitsch
lang: Maltese
word: venewwa
lang: Norman
word: pievie
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vipe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vipe
lang: Polish
word: czajka
lang: Portuguese
word: quero-quero
lang: Punjabi
word: ਟਟੀਹਰੀ
roman: ṭaṭīhrī
lang: Romanian
word: nagâț
lang: Russian
word: чи́бис
roman: číbis
lang: Samogitian
word: pīmpė
lang: Samogitian
word: gīvė
lang: Scots
word: teuchat
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: curracag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: adharcan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вивак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vivak
lang: Slovak
word: cíbik
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kibut
lang: Spanish
word: avefría
lang: Spanish
word: queltehue
lang: Spanish
word: tero
lang: Swedish
word: vipa
lang: Tamil
word: ஆட்காட்டி
roman: āṭkāṭṭi
lang: Tulu
word: ടിട്ടിഭ
roman: ṭiṭṭibha
lang: Ukrainian
word: чи́бис
roman: čýbys
lang: Ukrainian
word: ча́йка
roman: čájka
lang: Vilamovian
word: kiwic
lang: Volapük
word: vanul
lang: Welsh
word: cornicyll