starling

starling

See also: Starling

English

a common starling

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)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

Noun

starling (plural starlings)

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

Derived terms

• common starling, European starling
• rosy starling
• spotless starling

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

Further reading

Starling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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