arctic tern

English

An arctic tern.

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• Arctic tern

Noun

arctic tern (plural arctic terns)

1. A migratory bird that travels between the Arctic and Antarctic, Sterna paradisaea.

Translations

Sterna paradisaea

• Catalan: xatrac àrtic m
• Dutch: noordse stern (nl)
• Faroese: terna (fo) f
• Finnish: lapintiira (fi)
• French: sterne arctique (fr) f
• German: Küstenseeschwalbe f
• Greenlandic: imeqqutaalaq
• Hawaiian: ʻimikukailaka
• Inupiaq: mitqutaiḷaq
• Irish: geabhróg Artach f
• Manx: gant ny gibbinyn m
• Navajo: hakʼaz tónteel táshchozhii
• Portuguese: andorinha do Ártico f, andorinha ártica f
• Russian: поля́рная кра́чка f (poljárnaja kráčka)
• Sami:

  Akkala Sami: tjerre

  Inari Sami: čerrih

  Kildin Sami: це̄рехь (cier’ex’)

  Lule Sami: tjierrek

  Northern Sami: čearret

  Skolt Sami: ce´rriǩ

• Spanish: charrán ártico m, gaviotín ártico m
• Swedish: silvertärna (sv) c
• Ukrainian: крячо́к поля́рний m (krjačók poljárnyj, literally “polar tern”)