heron

heron

See also: Heron and héron

English

Etymology

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Old Dutch *heigero (compare Middle Dutch heiger), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹən

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

Coordinate terms

• (a wading bird): egret, bittern, crane, heronsew, stork

Translations

bird

Afrikaans: reier Albanian: gatë (sq) f, çapkë f Apache: Western Apache: kʼos joolí (blue) Arabic: بَلَشُون‎ (balašūn) Egyptian Arabic: بلشون‎ m (balšōn) Aragonese: garra Armenian: տառեղ (hy) (taṙeł) Assamese: বগলী (bogoli), বগ (bog), কণামুচৰি (konamusori) Asturian: garza (ast) f Azerbaijani: vağ Bashkir: селән (selän) Basque: lertxun, koartza Belarusian: ча́пля f (čáplja) Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f Bulgarian: ча́пла (bg) f (čápla) Catalan: agró m, bernat pescaire m Chamicuro: askoli Chinese: Mandarin: 蒼鷺／苍鹭 (zh) (cānglù), 鷺／鹭 (zh) (lù) Czech: volavka (cs) f Danish: hejre (da) c Dutch: reiger (nl) m Erzya: сёнксь (sjonksʹ) Esperanto: ardeo (eo) Estonian: haigur Faroese: hegri (fo) Finnish: haikara (fi) French: héron (fr) m Friulian: airon m Galician: garza (gl) f, ghanza f Georgian: ყანჩა (q̇anča) German: Reiher (de) m Greek: ερωδιός (el) m (erodiós), αρδέα f (ardéa), τσικνιάς (el) m (tsikniás) Ancient: ἐρῳδιός m (erōidiós) Greenlandic: qeriiaq Gullah: pojo Hebrew: אֲנָפָה‎ (he) f (anafá) Hindi: वगुला (vagulā), बगला (hi) m (baglā), बगुला (hi) m (bagulā), बक (hi) m (bak) Hungarian: gém (hu), kócsag (hu), bakcsó (hu) (only genus Nycticorax; see there for more synonyms) Icelandic: hegri (is) m Ido: herono (io) Indonesian: kuntul (id), kowak (id), cangak (id) Interlingua: hairon Irish: corr f Italian: airone (it) m Japanese: 鷺 (ja) (さぎ, sagi), サギ (ja) (sagi), 白鷺 (ja) (しらさぎ, shirasagi), シラサギ (ja) (shirasagi) Javanese: blekok (jv) Kazakh: құтан (qūtan) Korean: 왜가리 (waegari), 해오라기 (ko) (hae'oragi), 백로(白鷺) (ko) (baengno) Kumyk: чыл (çıl) Ladin: airon Latgalian: ziurejs Latin: ardea (la) f, ardeola f Latvian: gārnis Lithuanian: garnys (lt) Low German: Reier, Reiger m Lutshootseed: sbəq'ʷaʔ Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m Macedonian: сива чапја f (siva čapja), чапја f (čapja) Malayalam: കൊക്ക് (ml) (kokkŭ), ബകം (ml) (bakaṃ) Maltese: russett Manx: coar ny hastan f Maori: heroni Mari: Eastern Mari: чарлаҥге (čarlaṅge) Western Mari: цӓрлӓнгӹ (cärlängÿ) Mi'kmaq: tmgwatignej anim Minangkabau: bangau Mingrelian: ჸანჩი (ʾanči) Nahuatl: aztatl Nanai: вачака Northern Sami: ránesháigir Norwegian: hegre, heire m O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig Occitan: bernat pescaire (oc) m, guiraut pescaire m Old Occitan: *aigreta Old English: hrāgra m Old French: hairon m heiron m Old High German: heigaro m, reigaro m Ottoman Turkish: بالقجیل‎ (balıkcıl) Persian: حواصیل‎ (fa) (havâsil), بوتیمار‎ (fa) (butimâr), چگرنه‎ (čegarne) Piedmontese: neiron Polish: czapla (pl) f Portuguese: garça (pt) f Quechua: wakchilla Romani: kokosturko m, kokosturka f Romanian: stârc (ro) m, bâtlan (ro) m Romansch: irun m Russian: ца́пля (ru) f (cáplja) Sanskrit: बक (sa) m (baka) Sardinian: perdigiorronadas, mengoni, menga, garza Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: чапља f Roman: čaplja (sh) f Shona: nyarupani Slovak: volavka Slovene: čaplja (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: šytawa f, rybarnik m Spanish: garza (es) f Sranan Tongo: sabaku Svan: ყა̈̄ნჯუ̂ (q̇ǟnǯû) Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: häger (sv) Tagalog: tagák, bakaw, garsa Telugu: నారాయణపక్షి (te) (nārāyaṇapakṣi) Tepecano: váko·n Thai: นกยาง (th) (nók yaang) Tofa: шилен Turkish: balıkçıl (tr) Ukrainian: ча́пля f (čáplja) Upper Sorbian: čapla Vietnamese: diệc (vi) Volapük: härod (vo) Welsh: crëyr m, crychydd m West Flemish: reiger West Frisian: reager c Wolof: warapuló mi Yiddish: please add this translation if you can Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• heron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ardeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ardeidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Honer, Horne, Rhone, Rhône, honer, horne, rhone

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• hayroun, heern, heiron, herne, heroun, herowne, heyrone, heyroun, heyrune

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, *haigrō, from Frankish/Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, from earlier *hraigrô via dissimilation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛːˈruːn/, /ˈhɛːrun/, /ˈhɛːr(ə)n/, /hɛi̯-/, /hɛ-/

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. the grey heron (Ardea cinerea), or (rarely) a representation of it used in heraldry
2. the meat of a heron used as food.

Related terms

• heronsewe

Descendants

• English: heron, hern
• Scots: hern

References

• “heirǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• hairon

Etymology

From Old French heron, of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *hraigrō.

Noun

heron m (plural herons)

1. heron

Descendants

• French: héron