lammergeier

English

A lammergeier in Austria.

Alternative forms

• lammergeyer, lämmergeier

Etymology

From German Lämmergeier, from Lämmer, plural of Lamm (“lamb”) + Geier (“vulture”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlæməɡaɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlæmɚɡaɪɚ/

Noun

lammergeier (plural lammergeiers)

1. A long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.

   Synonyms: bearded vulture, ossifrage

   • 1887 November 25, “The Last Alpine Vulture”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-30:

     According to the Swiss Journal of Ornithology, the Lammergeier, or Alpine vulture, may be regarded as extinct in Switzerland.

Translations

Gypaetus barbatus

• Afrikaans: baardaasvoël m, lammergier
• Albanian: shkabë mjekroshe f
• Arabic: نَسْر مِلَّتْحَيّ m (nasr millatḥayy)
• Armenian: գառնանգղ (hy) (gaṙnangġ)

  Old Armenian: բրդոռ (brdoṙ)

• Azerbaijani: toğlugötürən
• Breton: guperer (br) m
• Bulgarian: брадат лешояд m (bradat lešojad)
• Catalan: trencalòs m
• Chechen: маж йолу аьрзу (maž jolu ärzu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡兀鷲／胡兀鹫 (hú wù jiù)

• Czech: orlosup (cs) m
• Danish: lammegrib c
• Dutch: lammergier (nl) m, baardgier (nl) m
• Esperanto: gipaeto (eo), ŝafgrifo, liphara gipaeto
• Finnish: partakorppikotka (fi)
• French: gypaète (fr) m
• German: Lämmergeier m, Bartgeier (de) m
• Greek: γυπαετός (el) m (gypaetós)

  Ancient: φήνη f (phḗnē)

• Hebrew: פֶּרֶס (he) m (péres)
• Hungarian: szakállas saskeselyű m
• Interlingua: vulture barbate
• Italian: gipeto (it) m, avvoltoio degli agnelli m
• Japanese: 髭鷲 (ひげわし, higewashi), ヒゲワシ (ja) (higewashi)
• Korean: 수염수리 (suyeomsuri)
• Kumyk: уллу тююлген (ullu tüyulgen)
• Malay: hering berjanggut m
• Manx: shirragh faasaagagh m
• Mongolian: ёл (mn) (jol)
• Navajo: hashtłʼish jeeshóóʼ
• Nepali: हाडफोर (hāḍaphor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lammegribb (no)

• Persian: هما (fa) (homâ)
• Polish: orłosęp m
• Portuguese: abutre-barbudo (pt) m
• Romanian: zăgan (ro) m, vultur bărbos m
• Romansch: tschess barbet m
• Russian: борода́ч (ru) m (borodáč), ягня́тник (ru) m (jagnjátnik)
• Sanskrit: जटायु (sa) m (jaṭāyu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жутоглави брадаш m, костоберина f

  Roman: žutoglavi bradaš (sh) m, kostoberina (sh) f

• Slovene: brkati ser
• Spanish: quebrantahuesos (es) m
• Swedish: lammgam (sv) c
• Turkish: kara kuş (tr) m, sakallı akbaba (tr)
• Volapük: jipülavultur (vo)

Further reading

• Bearded vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gypaetus barbatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gypaetus barbatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons