buzzard

English

Wikipedia

Common buzzard, Buteo buteo, an Old World buzzard

American black vulture, Coragyps atratus

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin buteōn (“buteo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌzəɹd/

Noun

buzzard (plural buzzards)

1. Any of several Old World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
2. In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
3. (colloquial, derogatory, slang, often preceded by "old", the "old buzzard") A curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
4. (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
   • Goldsmith

     It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.

Derived terms

• augur buzzard, Buteo augur
• common buzzard, Buteo buteo
• eastern buzzard, Buteo japonicus
• forest buzzard, Buteo trizonatus
• grasshopper buzzard, Butastur rufipennis
• grey-faced buzzard, Butastur indicus
• jackal buzzard, Buteo rufofuscus
• lizard buzzard, Kaupifalco monogrammicus
• long-legged buzzard, Buteo rufinus
• Madagascar buzzard, Buteo brachypterus
• mountain buzzard, Buteo oreophilus
• red-necked buzzard, Buteo auguralis
• rufous-winged buzzard, Butastur liventer
• upland buzzard, Buteo hemilasius
• white-eyed buzzard, Butastur teesa

Synonyms

• buteo
• broadwing
• turkey vulture
• vulture

Translations

Genus Buteo

• Albanian: huta
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: zapelatz
• Belarusian: каня f (kanja)
• Breton: baou
• Bulgarian: обикновен мишелов m (obiknoven mišelov)
• Catalan: aligot m, zopilot m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵟 (zh), 𫛭 (zh) (kuáng)

• Choctaw: sheki
• Czech: káně n
• Danish: musvåge
• Dutch: buizerd (nl) m
• Esperanto: buteo
• Estonian: hiireviu
• Faroese: músvákur m
• Finnish: haukka (fi)
• French: buse (fr) f
• Friulian: cagne, poiane
• Galician: miñato m, bexato (gl) m
• German: Bussard (de) m
• Greek: γερακίνα (el) f (gerakína)
• Hungarian: ölyv
• Icelandic: músvákur (is) m
• Irish: clamhán
• Isthmus Zapotec: nguʼxhiʼ
• Italian: poiana (it) f
• Japanese: 鵟 (ja) (ノスリ, nosuri)
• Khmer: ត្មាត (km) (tmaat)
• Korean: 말똥가리 (malttonggari)
• Ladin: gabinel
• Latvian: klijāns

• Lithuanian: suopis (lt)
• Lower Sorbian: pašturlica f
• Macedonian: jастреб глувчар m (jastreb gluvčar)
• Maltese: kuċċarda prima f
• Norwegian: musvåk
• Occitan: tartana f
• Polish: myszołów (pl) m
• Portuguese: águia-de-asa-redonda f, milhafre m
• Romani: worolo m, worla f
• Romanian: șoricar m
• Romansch: girun da mieurs
• Russian: канюк (ru) m (kanjúk)
• Sami : sáhpánboaimmáš, sáhpánfálli
• Sardinian: stori furapuddas, tappàiu, pilloni farrancau
• Scottish Gaelic: clamhan m, àrmhaigh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ми̏ша̄р m, шка́њац m

  Roman: mȉšār m, škánjac m

• Slovak: myšiak lesný
• Slovene: kanja
• Spanish: ratonero común m, busardo m
• Swedish: ormvråk (sv)
• Turkish: şahin (tr)
• Ukrainian: канюк m (kanjúk)
• Upper Sorbian: pašturlica, paskulica
• Volapük: (♂♀) busar (vo), (♂) hibusar, (♀) jibusar, (♂♀ offspring) busarül
• Welsh: bwncath
• West Frisian: mûzefalk (fy)

slang or derogatory term for a person

• French: sale bougre m, sale bougresse f
• German: alter Gauner m, alte Gaunerin f

• Polish: piernik (pl) m, zgred m

American black vulture — see black vulture

turkey vulture — see turkey vulture