turtle dove

turtle dove

See also: turtledove and turtle-dove

English

Wikispecies

Turtle doves

Alternative forms

• turtle-dove, turtledove

Etymology

From Middle English turtildove, turteldoufe ( = Dutch tortelduif = Old High German turtultūba, turtulatūba, turtiltūba; Middle High German turteltūbe, türteltūbe; German Turteltaube = Danish turteldue = Swedish turturduva = Icelandic turtildúfu).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːtəldʌv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝtəldʌv/

Noun

turtle dove (plural turtle doves)

1. Any of several birds in the genus Streptopelia of the pigeon family.

Derived terms

• Australian turtle dove
• Cape turtle dove
• dusky turtle dove
• Eurasian turtle dove
• European turtle dove
• laughing turtle dove
• oriental turtle dove
• red turtle dove
• rufous turtle dove
• spotted turtle dove

 

Translations

bird in the genus Streptopelia

Afrikaans: tortelduif Albanian: turtulli Arabic: تُرْغُلَّة‎ f (turḡulla) Moroccan Arabic: ڭْريڭر‎ m (grigər), ڭْريڭْرة‎ (grigra) (female), دْكر لْله‎ m (dkər lləh) (meaning "call God", from its song) Armenian: տատրակ (hy) (tatrak) Assamese: কুপতি (kupoti), কপৌ (kopou) Basque: usapal Belarusian: турка́ўка f (turkáŭka) Breton: turzhunell voutin Bulgarian: гургули́ца f (gurgulíca) Catalan: tórtora f Chechen: къор-кхокха (q̇or-qoqa) Chinese: Mandarin: 斑鳩 (zh) (ōubānjiū), 斑鸠 (zh) (bānjiū) Czech: hrdlička (cs) f Danish: turteldue (da) Dutch: tortelduif (nl) f Esperanto: turto (eo) Estonian: turteltuvi Faroese: turtildúgva Finnish: turturikyyhky (fi) French: tourterelle (fr) f Friulian: tortorele Galician: rula común (gl) German: Turteltaube (de) f Greek: τριγόνι (trigóni) Ancient Greek: τρυγών f (trugṓn) Hungarian: vadgerle, gerle (hu) Icelandic: turtildúfa (is) Irish: fearán Italian: tortora (it) f Japanese: コキジバト (kokijibato) Kurdish: qumrî (ku) f Latin: turtur m Latvian: parastā ūbele Lithuanian: purplelis (lt)

Macedonian: грлица f (g'rlica) Maltese: gamiema Navajo: hasbídí Norman: d'mié-pigeon m (Jersey), p'tit pigeon d'France m (Jersey) Norwegian: turteldue Occitan: tortora f Old English: turtle f Persian: یمام‎ (fa) (yamām), قمری‎ (fa) (qomrī) Polish: turkawka (pl) Portuguese: rola (pt) f Quechua: urpi (qu) Romanian: turturică (ro) f, turturea (ro) f Romansch: turturella Russian: го́рлица (ru) f (górlica), го́рлинка (ru) f (górlinka) Sami: turtelduvvá Sardinian: trùtture, trùtturi, truvamassaju Scottish Gaelic: calman-tùchan Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: грлица f Roman: grlica (sh) f Slovak: hrdlička (sk) Slovene: grlica (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: marijank m, marjank m, tujawka f Upper Sorbian: tujawka f Spanish: tórtola (es) f Swahili: hua (sw) Swedish: turturduva (sv) Tagalog: lapati Turkish: üveyik (tr) Ukrainian: го́рлиця (hórlycja) Walloon: toûtrale (wa) f Welsh: turtur West Frisian: toarteldo Yiddish: טערקלטויב‎ f (terkltoyb)