lapwing

English

Etymology

From Old English hlēapewince, from hlēapan ‘to leap’ + *winc- ‘sway, totter’ (because of its manner of flight). The modern form is partly due to popular etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlæpwɪŋ/

Noun

lapwing (plural lapwings)

1. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae of the family Charadriidae.
2. A silly man.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act V Scene 2,

     This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

Derived terms

• northern lapwing

Translations

bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae

• Belarusian: кнігаўка (be) (kníhaŭka) f, чыбіс (be) (čýbis) m
• Bulgarian: калугерица (bg) (kalúgerica) f
• Catalan: fredeluga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 田鳧 (cmn), 田凫 (cmn) (tiánfú)

• Czech: čejka (cs) f
• Danish: vibe (da) c
• Dutch: kievit (nl) m
• Esperanto: vanelo (eo)
• Finnish: hyyppä (fi)
• French: vanneau (fr)
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kiebitz (de) m
• Hungarian: bíbic (hu)
• Icelandic: vepja (is) f
• Ido: vanelo (io)
• Japanese: タゲリ (ja) (tageri)
• Jèrriais: pievie f

• Lithuanian: pempė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Piwitsch (lb) m
• Polish: czajka (pl) f
• Portuguese: quero-quero (pt) m
• Russian: чибис (ru) (číbis) m
• Scottish Gaelic: curracag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вивак (sh) m

  Roman: vivak (sh) m

• Slovak: cíbik (sk) m
• Spanish: avefría (es) f
• Ukrainian: чибис (uk) (čýbys) m, чайка (uk) (čájka) f
• Vilamovian: kiwic
• Volapük: (male or female) vanul (vo), (male) hivanul (vo), (female) jivanul (vo), (male or female offspring) vanulül (vo), (young male offspring) hivanulül (vo), (young female offspring) jivanulül (vo)
• West Frisian: ljip (fy)

See also

• Lapwing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vanellus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Vanellus

Anagrams

• pawling