common swift

English

Common swift flock in flight

Pronunciation

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Noun

common swift (plural common swifts)

1. Apus apus, a swallow-like bird native to Europe and much of temperate Asia, rarely alighting on the ground.

Translations

Apus apus

• Albanian: dejkë (sq) f
• Asturian: andarón (ast), cirriu (ast)
• Bashkir: ҡара ҡарлуғасы (qara qarluğası)
• Belarusian: чорны свіргуль m (čórny svirhulʹ)
• Bulgarian: бързолет m (bărzolet)
• Catalan: falciot negre
• Czech: rorýs obecný (cs) m
• Dutch: gierzwaluw (nl) f
• Esperanto: apuso
• Estonian: piiritaja
• Finnish: tervapääsky (fi)
• French: martinet noir (fr) m
• German: Mauersegler (de) m
• Georgian: ნამგალა (namgala)
• Greek: μαυροσταχτάρα (el) f (mavrostachtára)
• Hungarian: sarlósfecske (hu)
• Icelandic: múrsvölungur (is) m
• Ingrian: tervapääskö
• Japanese: ヨーロッパ雨燕 (yōroppa-amatsubame)
• Kumyk: къайчыкъанат (qayçıqanat)
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠷ᠎ᠠ
  ᠣᠷᠠᠴᠠᠢ (qor-a oračai)
• Polish: jerzyk (pl) m
• Romanian: drepnea neagră f
• Russian: чёрный стриж m (čórnyj striž)
• Slovak: dážďovník obyčajný (sk) m
• Spanish: vencejo común m
• Swedish: tornseglare (sv) c
• Turkish: ebabil (tr), dağ kırlangıcı
• Uyghur: ھەيران (heyran)

Further reading

• common swift on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apus apus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Apus apus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Apus_apus at Animal Diversity Web