songbird

songbird

English

Etymology

song +‎ bird

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒŋˌbɜːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔŋˌbɝd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑŋˌbɝd/

Noun

songbird (plural songbirds)

1. A bird having a melodious song or call.
   • 1976, Electric Light Orchestra, Rockaria!

     Sweet little lady sings like a songbird / And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard

2. Any bird in the passerine suborder Passeri, which are distinguished by a more sophisticated vocal apparatus

   Synonym: oscine

Hyponyms

• songster (male), songstress (female)

Translations

bird

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: пяву́чая пту́шка f (pjavúčaja ptúška) Bulgarian: пойна птица f (pojna ptica) Catalan: ocell cantador m Chinese: Mandarin: 鳴禽／鸣禽 (zh) (míngqín), 鳴鳥／鸣鸟 (zh) (míngniaǒ) Classical Nahuatl: cuīcanitōtōtl Danish: sangfugl (da) c Dutch: zangvogel (nl) m Esperanto: kantobirdo Faroese: sangfuglur m Finnish: laululintu French: oiseau chanteur (fr) m Georgian: მგალობელი ჩიტი (mgalobeli čiṭi) German: Singvogel (de) m Greek: ωδικό πτηνό n (odikó ptinó) Hungarian: énekesmadár (hu) Ido: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 鳴き鳥 (なきどり, nakidori) Korean: 명금 (myeonggeum) Latvian: dziedātājputns m Maori: manu tīoriori Norwegian: Bokmål: sangfugl m, sanger (no) m Nynorsk: songfugl m Polish: ptak śpiewający m Portuguese: pássaro (pt) m, passarinho (pt) m (diminutive ), ave de canto f Russian: пе́вчая пти́ца (ru) f (pévčaja ptíca) Slovene: ptič pevec m, ptica pevka f Spanish: pájaro cantor m Swedish: sångfågel (sv) c Ukrainian: співо́чий птах m (spivóčyj ptax) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Volapük: kanitaböd Welsh: aderyn canu m, adar canu m pl

Anagrams

• Birdsong, bird song, birdsong