thrush

English

a Song Thrush

Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /θɹʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Etymology 1

From a combination of Old English þrȳsce (from Proto-Germanic *þrūskjōn) and Old English *þrēasce (attested in Anglian þrǣsce; from Proto-Germanic *þrauskōn).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and robin have.
2. (US, colloquial) A female singer.

Translations

one of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae

• Armenian: կեռնեխ (hy) (keṙnex) 
• Belarusian: дрозд (be) (drozd) m 
• Bulgarian: дрозд (bg) (drozd) m 
• Catalan: tord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶇 (cmn), 鸫 (cmn) (dōng)

• Czech: drozd (cs) m
• Dutch: lijster (nl)
• Esperanto: turdo (eo)
• Faroese: trøstur (fo) m
• Finnish: rastas (fi)
• French: tourd (fr) m
• Georgian: შაშვი (ka) (šašvi) 
• German: Drossel (de) f
• Greek: κίχλη (el) (kíchli) f , (colloquial) τσίχλα (el) (tsíchla) f 
• Guernésiais: graïve m
• Hungarian: rigó (hu)
• Icelandic: þröstur (is) m
• Interlingua: turdo
• Italian: tordo (it) m
• Japanese: つぐみ (ja) (tsugumi) , 鶫 (ja) (つぐみ, tsugumi), ツグミ (ja) (tsugumi)
• Latgalian: strods m

• Latin: turdus (la) m
• Latvian: strazds (lv)
• Lithuanian: varnėnas (lt) m
• Low German: Drooßel f
• Luxembourgish: Dréischel (lb) f
• Macedonian: дрозд (mk) (drozd) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trost (nb) m

  Nynorsk: trast (nn) m and f, trost (nn) m and f

• Polish: drozd (pl) m
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m (PT), sabiá (pt) (BR)
• Romanian: sturz (ro) m
• Russian: дрозд (ru) (drozd) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: smeòrach (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: drȍzd (sh) m, drozak, дрозд (sh) m, дрозак (sh) m
• Slovak: drozd (sk) m
• Slovene: drozg (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drozna f

• Spanish: tordo (es) m, mirlo (es) m, zorzal (es) m
• Swedish: trast (sv) c
• Ukrainian: дрізд (uk) (drizd) m 

woman who sings popular songs

• Russian: певичка (ru) (pevíčka) f 

Derived terms

• song thrush

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare Swedish torsk, Danish trøske.

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. A fungal infection caused by Candida, now especially of the vagina; candidiasis.

Synonyms

• candidiasis

Derived terms

• oral thrush

Translations

fungal infection

• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: muguet (fr) m (oral), mycose vaginale (fr) f (vaginal)
• Portuguese: cândida f

• Russian: молочница (ru) (molóčnica) f , кандидоз (ru) (kandidóz) m 
• Turkish: pamukçuk (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: mullenjë (sq) f
• Mandarin: 画眉鸟 (huameiniao)
• Dutch: spruw(2)
• Hungarian szájpenész (hu) (2)

• Volapük: turd, musigaturd

See also

• candida
• turdiform