starling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).
Inflected forms:
form: starlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sterling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
pos: noun
gloss: A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
pos: noun
examples: Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.
gloss: A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
pos: noun
Derived words: starlinglike
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: spreeu
lang: Albanian
word: shturë
lang: Albanian
word: gargull
lang: Arabic
word: زُرْزُور
roman: zurzūr
lang: Arabic
word: زرزور
roman: zarzūr
lang: Armenian
word: սարյակ
roman: saryak
lang: Asturian
word: estornín
lang: Bashkir
word: сыйырсыҡ
roman: sıyırsıq
lang: Basque
word: arabazozo
lang: Belarusian
word: шпак
roman: špak
lang: Bengali
word: শালিক
roman: śalik
lang: Breton
word: tred
lang: Bulgarian
word: скоре́ц
roman: skoréc
lang: Catalan
word: estornell
lang: Chechen
word: алкханч
roman: alqanč
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 椋鳥 /椋鸟
roman: liángniǎo
lang: Cornish
word: troos
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: sıyırcıq
lang: Czech
word: špaček
lang: Danish
word: stær
lang: Dutch
word: spreeuw
lang: Esperanto
word: sturno
lang: Estonian
word: kuldnokk
lang: Estonian
word: künnirästas
lang: Faroese
word: stari
lang: Finnish
word: kottarainen
lang: French
word: étourneau
lang: West-Frisian
word: protter
lang: Friulian
word: sturnel
lang: Galician
word: estorniño
lang: Georgian
word: შოშია
roman: šošia
lang: German
word: Star
lang: Greek
word: ψαρόνι
roman: psaróni
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ψάρ
roman: psár
lang: Hebrew
word: זַרְזִיר
roman: zarzír
lang: Hungarian
word: seregély
lang: Icelandic
word: stari
lang: Indonesian
word: jalak
lang: Irish
word: druid
lang: Italian
word: storno
lang: Japanese
word: 椋鳥
roman: mukudori
lang: Javanese
word: jalak
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: alik
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: reşêlek
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: zerzûr
lang: Ladin
word: storno
lang: Latin
word: sturnus
lang: Latvian
word: mājas strazds
lang: Lithuanian
word: varnėnas
lang: Low German
word: Spree
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Spréif
lang: Macedonian
word: сколовра́нец
roman: skolovránec
lang: Maltese
word: sturnell
lang: Māori
word: tāringi
lang: Norman
word: étourné
lang: Norman
word: êtourné
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stær
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: stare
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: star
lang: Occitan
word: estornèl
lang: Old English
word: stær
lang: Ossetian
word: сауцъиу
roman: sawc’iw
lang: Persian
word: سار
roman: sâr
lang: Persian
word: ساری
roman: sâri
lang: Polish
word: szpak
lang: Portuguese
word: estorninho
lang: Romanian
word: graur
lang: Romansh
word: sturnel
lang: Russian
word: скворе́ц
roman: skvoréc
lang: Inari-Sami
word: kottarâš
lang: Lule-Sami
word: sterra
lang: Northern Sami
word: stárra
lang: Sardinian
word: istùrulu campinu
lang: Sardinian
word: sturru grandinau
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: druid
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чво́рак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čvórak
lang: Slovak
word: škorec
lang: Slovene
word: škorec
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: škórc
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: škórc
lang: Southern Altai
word: сыгырчык
roman: sïgïrčïk
lang: Spanish
word: estornino
lang: Swedish
word: stare
lang: Tagalog
word: martines
lang: Talysh
word: шор
lang: Turkish
word: sığırcık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صیغیرجق
roman: sığırcık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سار
roman: sar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: زرزور
roman: zurzur
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چكركه قوشی
roman: çekirge kuşu
lang: Turkmen
word: sar
lang: Ukrainian
word: шпак
roman: špak
lang: Venetan
word: strioło
lang: Volapük
word: sturnod
lang: Welsh
word: drudwen