jackdaw

English

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Etymology

Compound of jack and daw The first element, also present in Low German Kajak, (North Saxon) Jöker "jackdaw", may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, or to the name Jack. The second element means "jackdaw" in itself, from Old English dāƿe, and is cognate with German Dohle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdʒækˌdɔː/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ{k%dO:/
• (GenAM) IPA: /ˈdʒækˌdɔ/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ{k%dO/
• Hyphenation: jack‧daw

Noun

jackdaw (plural jackdaws)

1. A European bird of the crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins.
2. A Daurian jackdaw, a closely related Asian bird (Corvus dauuricus).

Synonyms

• (Corvus monedula): daw, western jackdaw, Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw

Translations

Corvus monedula

• Albanian: galë (sq) f
• Bashkir: сәүкә (säwkä)
• Basque: bele txiki
• Belarusian: каўка (be) (káŭka) f, галка (be) (hálka) f
• Breton: kavan-tour
• Bulgarian: чавка (bg) (čávka) f
• Catalan: gralla
• Chechen: човка
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寒鴉 (cmn), 寒鸦 (cmn) (hányā)

• Czech: kavka (cs) f
• Danish: allike (da) c
• Dutch: kauw (nl) m
• Esperanto: monedo
• Estonian: hakk
• Faroese: rókur (fo)
• Finnish: naakka (fi)
• French: choucas (fr) m
• Friulian: cornete, çore cenerine
• Galician: gralla cereixeira
• Georgian: ჭკა (ka) (čka)
• German: Dohle (de) f
• Greek: κάργια (el) (kárgia), καρακάξα (el) (karakáxa) f, καλιακούδα (el) (kaliakoúda) f

  Ancient Greek: κολοιός (koloios) m

• Hebrew: קאק (he) (ka'ak)
• Hungarian: csóka (hu)
• Icelandic: dvergkráka (is) f
• Ido: chuvo (io)
• Irish: cág (ga) m
• Italian: taccola (it)
• Japanese: ニシコクマルガラス (ja) (nishikokumarugarasu), コクマルガラス (ja) (kokumarugarasu)
• Korean: 갈까마귀 (ko) (galkkamagwi)
• Ladin: agacion, cornacia

• Latgalian: čāguons m
• Latin: monedula f
• Latvian: kovārnis (lv)
• Lithuanian: kuosa (lt)
• Low German: Dohl f, Krickelkreih f
• Lower Sorbian: kawka f
• Luxembourgish: Steekueb (lb) m
• Macedonian: чавка (mk) (čávka) f
• Maltese: ċawla (mt) f
• Manx: caaig doo-chassagh (gv) m
• Norwegian: kaie (no)
• Occitan: gralhon
• Old Irish: caóc f
• Polish: kawka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gralha de nuca cinzenta
• Romanian: cioacă (ro) f
• Romansch: tulaun (curnagl grisch)
• Russian: галка (ru) (gálka) f
• Sami: toardnagájon
• Sardinian: tàccula, carroga, carroghedda
• Scottish: cathag
• Scottish Gaelic: cadhag (gd) f, cathag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чавка (sh) f, чавче (sh) f (diminutive form)

  Roman: čavka (sh) f, čavče (sh) f (diminutive form)

• Slovak: kavka (sk) f
• Slovene: kavka (sl) f
• Spanish: grajilla (es) f
• Swedish: kaja (sv)
• Turkish: küçük karga (tr)
• Ukrainian: галка (uk) (hálka) f
• Upper Sorbian: kawka f
• Volapük: (male or female) glügakrov (vo), (offspring, young) glügakrovül (vo)
• Welsh: jac-y-do, jac-do
• West Frisian: ka

Corvus dauuricus — see Daurian jackdaw