barn owl

English

a barn owl.

American barn owl (Tyto furcata)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English barn

English owl

English barn owl

From barn + owl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːn ˌaʊl/, /ˈbɑɹn ˌaʊəl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

barn owl (plural barn owls)

1. An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.

   Synonym: disc owl

Hyponyms

• (Tyto alba): eastern barn owl (Tyto alba delicatula), western barn owl (Tyto alba alba), American barn owl (Tyto alba furcata)

Coordinate terms

• (owl living in farm buildings): flammulated owl, great horned owl, greater sooty owl, tawny owl

Translations

Tyto alba

• Albanian: kukuvajka mjekroshe
• Asturian: curuxa (ast), curuxa real (ast), rillu (ast), paxarón del aceite (ast)
• Basque: hontz zuri
• Belarusian: сіпуха звычайная f (sipuxa zvyčajnaja)
• Breton: grell voutin
• Bulgarian: забулена сова f (zabulena sova)
• Burmese: လင်ကောင်ပိုး (langkaungpui:), ငှက်ဆိုး (my) (hngakhcui:)
• Catalan: òliba (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倉鴞 / 仓鸮 (cāngxiāo)

• Czech: sova pálená f
• Danish: slørugle (da)
• Dutch: kerkuil (nl) m
• Esperanto: turstrigo
• Estonian: loorkakk
• Faroese: hjartaugla
• Finnish: tornipöllö (fi)
• French: chouette effraie (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: goudûle

• Friulian: barbezuan
• Galician: curuxa común, curuxa (gl) f
• German: Schleiereule (de) f
• Greek: πεπλόγλαυκα (el) f (peplóglafka)

  Ancient Greek: τυτώ f (tutṓ)

• Hebrew: תנשמת (he) f (tinshemet)
• Hungarian: gyöngybagoly (hu)
• Icelandic: turnugla
• Indonesian: serak jawa
• Irish: scréachóg reilige f
• Italian: barbagianni (it)
• Japanese: 面梟 (ja) (めんふくろう, menfukurō), メンフクロウ (ja) (menfukurō)
• Korean: 가면올빼미 (gamyeonolppaemi)
• Latin: parra
• Latvian: plīvurpūce
• Lithuanian: liepsnotoji pelėda
• Macedonian: дамчест був m (damčest buv)
• Malay: pungguk jelapang
• Maltese: barbaġann
• Manx: hullad soailt f, hullad vane f, caillagh oie f
• Nahuatl: chicuahtli
• Navajo: biniiʼłigaii
• Norman: blianc cahouain
• Norwegian: tårnugle
• Occitan: dama blanca, caús (oc)
• Polish: płomykówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: coruja-das-torres (pt) f
• Romanian: strigă (ro) f
• Romansh: tschuetta velada
• Russian: сипу́ха обыкнове́нная f (sipúxa obyknovénnaja)
• Sami: toardnaskuolfi
• Sardinian: cuccufiu, stria bianca, istria bianca
• Scottish Gaelic: cailleach-oidhche f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кукувиjа f

  Latin: kukuvija (sh) f, kukuvija drijemavica (sh)

• Slovak: plamienka driemavá f
• Slovene: pegasta sova f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wokata sowa f, pisana sowa f

  Upper Sorbian: wokata sowa f, pisana sowa f

• Spanish: lechuza (es) f, lechuza común f
• Swahili: bundi (sw)
• Swedish: tornuggla (sv)
• Thai: นกแสก (th) (nók-sɛ̀ɛk)
• Tiwi: pinjoma, pinjomwa
• Turkish: peçeli baykuş (tr)
• Ukrainian: сипуха f (sypuxa)
• Vietnamese: cú lợn
• Welsh: tylluan wen
• Yucatec Maya: xoochʼ

References

• barn owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tyto alba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tyto alba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Walborn