heron

See also héron

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Heron on Wikipedia

heron

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

heron (plural herons)

bird

Albanian: çapka (sq)
Arabic: مالك الحزين (ar) (mālik al-ḥazīn) m

Egyptian Arabic: بلشون (balshon) m
Armenian: ձկնկուլ (hy) (jknkul)
Azeri: vağ (az)
Basque: koartza (eu)
Belarusian: чапля (be) (čáplja) f
Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f
Bulgarian: чапла (bg) (čápla) f
Catalan: agró (ca)
Chamicuro: askoli
Chinese:

Mandarin: 蒼鷺 (cmn), 苍鹭 (cmn) (cānglù), 鷺 (cmn), 鹭 (cmn) (lù)
Czech: volavka (cs) f
Danish: hejre (da) c
Dutch: reiger (nl) m
Erzya: сёнксь
Esperanto: ardeo (eo)
Estonian: haigur (et)
Faroese: hegri (fo)
Finnish: haikara (fi)
Frankish: haigru m
French: héron (fr) m
Friulian: airon
Galician: garza
Georgian: ყანჩა (ka) (qanč'a)
German: Reiher (de) m
Greek: ερωδιός (el) (erodiós) m, αρδέα (el) (ardéa) f, τσικνιάς (el) (tsikniás) m
Gullah: pojo
Hindi: वगुला (hi) (vagulā)
Hungarian: gém (hu), kócsag (hu)
Icelandic: hegri (is) m
Indonesian: kuntul, kowak, cangak (id)
Irish: corr
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)
Kazakh: құтан (kk) (kutan)
Korean: 왜가리 (ko) (waegari), 해오라기 (ko) (haeoragi), 백로 (ko) (baengno) (白鷺 (ko))
Ladin: airon
Latgalian: ziurejs
Latin: ardea (la) f, ardeola (la) f
Latvian: gārnis (lv)
Lithuanian: garnys (lt)

Low German: Reier, Reiger m
Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m
Macedonian: сива чапја (mk) (síva čápja) f, чапја (mk) (čápja) f
Maltese: russett
Nahuatl: aztatl (nah)
Norwegian: hegre (no), heire (no) m
Novial: herone
O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig
Occitan: bernat (oc); *aigreta (Old Occitan)
Old English: hrāgra (ang) m
Old French: hairon m heiron m
Old High German: heigaro m, reigaro m
Polish: czapla (pl) f
Portuguese: garça (pt) f
Quechua: wakchilla (qu)
Romani: kokosturko m, kokosturka f
Romansch: irun
Russian: цапля (ru) (cáplja) f
Sami: ránesháigir
Sardinian: perdigiorronadas (sc), mengoni (sc), menga (sc), garza (sc)
Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach (gd) f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: чапља (sh) f

Roman: čaplja (sh) f
Shona: nyarupani
Slovak: volavka (sk)
Slovene: čaplja (sl) f
Spanish: garza (es) f
Sranan Tongo: sabaku
Swedish: häger (sv)
Tagalog: tagák (tl)
Thai: นกยาง (th) (nók yaang)
Turkish: balıkçıl (tr)
Ukrainian: чапля (uk) (čáplja) f
Upper Sorbian: čapla
Vietnamese: con diệc (vi), diệc (vi)
Volapük: (male or female) härod (vo), (male) hihärod (vo), (female) jihärod (vo), (offspring, young) härodül (vo), (obsolete) fitagil (vo)
Welsh: crëyr (cy)
West Flemish: reiger
West Frisian: reager (fy)
Wolof: warapuló mi (wo)

heron m (plural herons)