brolga

English

Etymology

From Gamilaraay burralga

Noun

brolga (plural brolgas)

1. Grus rubicunda, an Australian crane.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 90, [1]

     But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […]

Synonyms

• native companion

Translations

an Australian crane

• Bandjalang: gilgil; muralman
• Dharug: dyuralya
• Dieri: purrhalka
• Finnish: australiankurki (fi)
• Gagadu: djamarrabarday
• Gamilaraay: burralga
• Gooniyandi: goorralga
• Guugu Yimidhirr: gurrbal
• Hawaiian: kiulalia
• Kriol: brolga

• Limilngan: lurrilyarr
• Murrinh-Patha: kulerrkkurrk
• Russian: австрали́йский жура́вль m (avstralíjskij žurávlʹ)
• Tiwi: jilarti, jilati, jilartinga, jilaringa
• Wardaman: bornorron
• Wemba-Wemba: kuthun
• Wik-Mungkan: minh korʼ
• Wiradhuri: buurralgang
• Yindjibarndi: yarnkarra

Further reading

• brolga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Grus rubicunda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• balrog

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Kriol

Noun

brolga

1. brolga