[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
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”).
[edit] Pronunciation
heron (plural herons)
- A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
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[edit] Translations
bird
- Albanian: çapka (sq)
- Armenian: ձկնկուլ (hy) (jknkul)
- Azeri: vağ (az)
- Basque: koartza (eu)
- Belarusian: чапля (be)
- Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f.
- Bulgarian: чапла (bg) f.
- Catalan: agró (ca)
- Chamicuro: askoli
- 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
- German: Reiher (de) m.
- Greek: ερωδιός (el) (erodiós) m., αρδέα (el) (ardea) f., τσικνιάς (el) (tsiknias) 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 サギ (sagi), 白鷺 シラサギ (shirasagi)
- Kazakh: құтан (kk)
- Korean: 왜가리 (waegari), 해오라기 (haeOragi), 백로 (白鷺, baegro, baekro)
- Ladin: airon
- Latgalian: ziurejs
- Latin: ardea (la) f., ardeola (la) f.
- Latvian: gārnis
- Lithuanian: garnys (lt)
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- Low Saxon: Reier, Reiger m.
- Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m.
- Macedonian: сива чапја (mk) (siva čapja)
- Maltese: russett
- Nahuatl: aztatl
- 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: corra-ghritheach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чапља (sh) f.
- Roman: čaplja (sh) f.
- Shona: nyarupani
- Slovak: volavka (sk)
- Slovene: čaplja (sl) f.
- Spanish: garza (es) f.
- Sranan: sabaku
- Swedish: häger (sv)
- Tagalog: tagák (tl)
- Turkish: balıkçıl (tr)
- Ukrainian: чапля (uk) (čáplja) f.
- Upper Sorbian: čapla
- 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)
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[edit] See also
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Middle French
heron m. (plural heronz)
- heron
[edit] Descendants
Heron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ardeidae on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Ardeidae
Heron on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
