caracara

See also: Caracara, caracará, and Cara Cara

English

The mountain caracara

Etymology

From Spanish caracara or Portuguese carcará, from Tupian, probably imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəˌkɑ.ɹə/

Noun

caracara (plural caracaras)

1. Any of several South American and Central American birds of prey in the family Falconidae.
   • 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106:

     The caracara's flight is direct and rapid, not at all like that of the vulture, which sails and soars in spirals.

   • 2021, Jonathan Meiburg, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey, Vintage, →ISBN, page 8:

     A few still live on the remote coasts of Tierra del Fuego, and though warrahs and gauchos vanished from the Falklands soon after Darwin's visit, striated caracaras still cling to life on the archipelago's outer islands, where they hunt and scavenge in colonies of penguins, seals, and albatrosses.

Derived terms

• Audubon's caracara
• crested caracara
• red-throated caracara, Ibycter americanus
• carunculated caracara, Phalcoboenus carunculatus
• mountain caracara, Phalcoboenus megalopterus
• white-throated caracara, Phalcoboenus albogularis
• striated caracara, Phalcoboenus australis
• northern crested caracara, Caracara cheriway
• southern crested caracara, Caracara plancus
• yellow-headed caracara, Milvago chimachima
• Chimango caracara, Milvago chimango
• chimango caracara
• southern caracara

Translations

bird of prey

• Catalan: caracarà m
• Finnish: karakara (fi)
• German: Geierfalke m
• Navajo: galagaláʼii
• Portuguese: carcará (pt) m, caracará (pt) m
• Quechua: alqamari
• Romanian: caracara (ro) m
• Spanish: caracará, carancho (es)

Further reading

• Caracara (subfamily) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish caracara, from Tupian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.raˈka.ra/

Noun

caracara m (uncountable)

1. caracara

Declension

declension of caracara (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) caracara	caracaraul
genitive/dative	(unui) caracara	caracaraului
vocative	caracaraule

See also

• falconidă
• șoim

References

• caracara in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈkaɾa/ [ka.ɾaˈka.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ra‧ca‧ra

Noun

caracara m (plural caracaras)

1. caracara

Derived terms

• caracara carancho
• caracara chimango
• caracara moñudo

 

Further reading

• “caracara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014