capercaillie

English

A capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• capercailye, capercaillye, capercailzie, capercally

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots capercailzie (for the -z-, see Mackenzie and tailzie), a corruption of Scottish Gaelic capall (“horse”) + coille (“of the woods”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæpəˈkeɪli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæpɚˈkeɪli/
• Rhymes: -eɪli

Noun

capercaillie (plural capercaillies)

1. A large, black grouse of the genus Tetrao in the bird family Phasianidae, especially the western capercaillie, Tetrao urogallus.

Synonyms

• (Tetrao urogallus): wood grouse

Derived terms

• black-billed capercaillie
• western capercaillie

Translations

bird of the genus Tetrao

• Bulgarian: глухар m (gluhar)
• Chukchi: умкырэвымрэв (umkyrėvymrėv)
• Czech: tetřev (cs)
• Dutch: auerhoen (nl) n
• Finnish: metso (fi)
• Ingrian: metso
• Polish: głuszec (pl) m
• Russian: глуха́рь (ru) m (gluxárʹ)
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: tetrijeb (sh) m
• Swedish: tjäder (sv) c

Tetrao urogallus

• Albanian: gjeli i egër
• Asturian: faisán (ast), gallu (ast)
• Basque: basoilar
• Belarusian: глушэц (hlušec)
• Breton: skilgog meur
• Bulgarian: глухар (gluhar)
• Catalan: gall fer m, gall salvatge m, gall de bosc m
• Chukchi: умкырэвымрэв (umkyrėvymrėv)
• Czech: tetřev hlušec
• Danish: tjur (da)
• Dutch: auerhoen (nl) n
• Esperanto: urogalo
• Estonian: metsis
• Finnish: metso (fi)
• French: grand tétras (fr) m, grand coq de bruyère (fr) m
• Friulian: gjal di mont, gjal cedron
• Galician: pita do monte, galo do monte
• German: Auerhuhn (de) n
• Greek: αγριόκουρκος (agriókourkos)
• Hungarian: siketfajd (hu)
• Icelandic: þiður
• Irish: capall coille
• Italian: urogallo (it) m, gallo cedrone m
• Ladin: gial grisc
• Latvian: mednis
• Lithuanian: kurtinys (lt)
• Macedonian: тетреб (tetreb)
• Northern Sami: čukčá
• Norwegian: storfugl (no), tiur (no) (male), røy (no) (female)
• Occitan: pollambèrt (oc) m
• Polish: głuszec (pl) m, głuszec zwyczajny m
• Portuguese: tetraz-grande-das-serras m
• Romanian: cocoș de munte
• Romansch: cot / gialina da taus
• Russian: глуха́рь (ru) m (gluxárʹ)
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: capall-coille
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тетреб, тетријеб глухан m

  Roman: tetreb (sh), tetrijeb gluhan (sh) m

• Slovak: tetrov hlucháň
• Slovene: divji petelin (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: puronka f

• Southern Sami: tjåktja
• Spanish: urogallo (es) m, gallo silvestre m
• Swedish: tjäder (sv)
• Turkish: çali horozu, orman horozu (tr)
• Ukrainian: глухар (hluxar)
• Upper Sorbian: hłuchar
• Veps: mecoi
• Welsh: grugiar y coed