starling

See also: Starling

English

Etymology

From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑɹlɪŋ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑːlɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

Noun

starling (plural starlings)

A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
1. The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge.
A California fish, the rock trout (Hexagrammos), especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, the boregat or bodieron.

Derived terms

Translations

bird

Afrikaans: spreeu
Albanian: shturë (sq) f, gargull (sq) m
Arabic: زُرْزُور‎ (zurzūr)
Egyptian Arabic: زرزور‎ m (zarzūr)
Armenian: սարյակ (hy) (saryak)
Bashkir: сыйырсыҡ (sıyırsıq)
Basque: arabazozo
Belarusian: шпак m (špak)
Breton: tred (br) f
Bulgarian: скоре́ц (bg) m (skoréc)
Catalan: estornell (ca) m
Chechen: алкханч (alqanč)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 椋鳥／椋鸟 (zh) (liángniǎo)
Crimean Tatar: sıyırcıq
Czech: špaček (cs) m
Danish: stær (da) c
Dutch: spreeuw (nl) m or f
Esperanto: sturno
Estonian: kuldnokk (et)
Faroese: stari m
Finnish: kottarainen (fi)
French: étourneau (fr) m
Friulian: sturnel ?
Galician: estorniño m
Georgian: შოშია (šošia)
German: Star (de) m
Greek: ψαρόνι (el) n (psaróni)
Ancient: ψάρ m (psár)
Hebrew: זַרְזִיר‎ (he) m (zarzír)
Hungarian: seregély (hu)
Icelandic: stari (is) m
Inari Sami: kottarâš
Indonesian: jalak (id)
Irish: druid f
Italian: storno (it) m
Japanese: 椋鳥 (ja) (mukudori)
Javanese: jalak
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: alik (ku), reşêlek (ku), zerzûr (ku)
Ladin: storno ?
Latin: sturnus m
Latvian: mājas strazds m
Lithuanian: varnėnas (lt) m
Low German: Spree m or f
Lule Sami: sterra
Luxembourgish: Spréif f
Macedonian: сколовра́нец m (skolovránec)
Maltese: sturnell ?
Maori: tāringi
Norman: étourné m (Guernsey), êtourné m (Jersey)
Northern Sami: stárra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stær m

Nynorsk: stare m, star (nn) m
Occitan: estornèl (oc) m
Old English: stær m
Ossetian: сауцъиу (sawc’iw)
Ottoman Turkish: صیغیرجق‎ (sığırcık), سار‎ (sar), زرزور‎ (zurzur), چكركه قوشی‎ (çekirge kuşu)
Persian: سار‎ (fa) (sār), ساری‎ (fa) (sāri)
Polish: szpak (pl) m anim
Portuguese: estorninho (pt) m
Romanian: graur (ro) m
Romansch: sturnel ?
Russian: скворе́ц (ru) m (skvoréc)
Sardinian: istùrulu campinu ?, sturru grandinau ?
Scottish Gaelic: druid f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чво́рак m

Roman: čvórak (sh) m
Slovak: škorec (sk) m
Slovene: škorec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: škórc m

Upper Sorbian: škórc m
Spanish: estornino (es) m
Swedish: stare (sv) c
Tagalog: martines
Talysh: шор
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sığırcık (tr)
Turkmen: sar
Ukrainian: шпак m (špak)
Venetian: strioło m
Volapük: sturnod (vo)
Welsh: drudwen f
West Frisian: protter (fy) c
Westrobothnian: staarr m

pilings

Finnish: suojapaalutus
French: bec (fr) m
German: Eisbrecher (de) m
Italian: palificazione (it) f, palafitta (it) ?
Polish: izbica (pl) f, lodołam m
Russian: водоре́з (ru) m (vodoréz), волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), ледоре́з (ru) m (ledoréz)
Swedish: isbrytare (sv) c

References

starling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sturnidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hexagrammos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Sturnidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hexagrammos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

ratlings

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