skylark

English

Wikipedia

A skylark.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From sky +‎ lark.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈskʌɪ.lɑːk/
• (US) IPA: /ˈskaɪ.lɑɹk/, X-SAMPA: /"skaI.lArk/

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Noun

skylark (plural skylarks)

1. A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

Translations

small brown passerine bird

• Albanian: lauresha
• Belarusian: жаваранак m
• Breton: alc'hweder sant Pęr
• Bulgarian: чучулига (bg) (čučuliga) f
• Catalan: alosa vulgar
• Croatian: poljska ševa f
• Czech: skřivan polní
• Danish: sanglærke (da) c
• Dutch: veldleeuwerik m
• Esperanto: alaŭdo (eo)
• Estonian: pőldlőoke
• Finnish: kiuru (fi), leivo (fi)
• French: alouette des champs (fr) f
• Friulian: lodule, odule
• Galician: laverca f
• German: Feldlerche (de) f, Lerche (de) f
• Greek: σταρήθρα (el) (staríthra) f
• Guernésiais: alouaette m, alout'raesse f
• Hungarian: mezei pacsirta (hu)
• Irish: fuiseog (ga) f, circín starraiceach (ga) m
• Italian: allodola (it) f
• Japanese: 雲雀 (hibari)
• Jèrriais: alouette f
• Korean: 종다리 (jongdari), 노고지리 (nogojiri) (obsolete)
• Ladin: lodola
• Latin: alauda (la) f
• Latvian: lauku cīrulis
• Lithuanian: vieversys (lt)
• Macedonian: чучулига (čučuliga) f

• Maltese: alwetta
• Occitan: alauseta f
• Polish: skowronek polny m
• Portuguese: cotovia (pt) f, laverca (pt) f, calandra (pt) f, calhandra (pt) f
• Romani: chiriklo-gilibano m, chirikli-gilibani f
• Romanian: ciocârlie (ro) f, ciocârlia (ro) f
• Romansch: lodola
• Russian: жаворонок (ru) (žávoronok) m
• Sami: leivvoš
• Sardinian: allòdola

  Campidanese Sardinian: calandiri, calandironi

  Gallurese Sardinian: calandru

  Logudorese Sardinian: prantaritta

• Sassarese Sardinian: accuccadìta
• Scottish Gaelic: uiseag (gd) f, topag (gd) f
• Serbian: по љска шева
• Slovak: škovránok poľný
• Slovene: poljski škrjanec
• Spanish: alondra común (es) f
• Swedish: sånglärka (sv)
• Turkish: tarla kuşu (tr)
• Ukrainian: жайворонок польовий
• Upper Sorbian: škowrončk
• Vilamovian: liychła
• Volapük: (male or female) felalaud (vo), (male) felahilaud (vo), (female) felajilaud (vo), (male or female offspring, young) felalaudül (vo), (male offspring, young) felahilaudül (vo), (female offspring, young) felajilaudül (vo)
• Welsh: ehedydd
• West Frisian: ljurk (fy)

Verb

skylark (third-person singular simple present skylarks, present participle skylarking, simple past and past participle skylarked)

1. (originally nautical) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.

Derived terms

• skylarker
• skylarking