eagle owl

See also: eagle-owl

English

Alternative forms

• eagle-owl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəl ˈɑʊl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

eagle owl (plural eagle owls)

2. Any of various Old World large owls of the genus Bubo, especially the Eurasian eagle owl, Bubo bubo, that have prominent ear tufts.

Usage notes

According to relatively recent genetic research the genus Bubo also includes snowy owl (former Nyctea), fish owls (former Ketupa) and fishing owls (former Scotopelia). Further research may result in new different split of the genus.

Derived terms

• great eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

Translations

large owl of genus Bubo

• Albanian: buf (sq) m
• Aragonese: bobón m
• Asturian: curuxón (ast), gárabu (ast), uxu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: yapalaq
• Basque: hontz handi
• Belarusian: фі́лін (fílin)
• Breton: toud meur
• Bulgarian: бухал (bg) m (buhal)
• Catalan: duc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鵰鴞／雕鸮 (zh) (diāoxiāo)

• Crimean Tatar: puğu
• Czech: výr (cs) m
• Danish: stor hornugle c
• Dutch: oehoe (nl) m
• Esperanto: gufo (eo)
• Estonian: kassikakk (et)
• Faroese: stór hornugla f
• Finnish: huuhkaja (fi)
• French: grand duc (fr) m
• Friulian: dűc, dűt
• Galician: bufo real m
• German: Uhu (de) m; Schuhu m (dialectal)
• Greek: μπούφος (el) m (boúfos)

  Ancient: βύας m (búas)

• Hebrew: אוח (he) m (oakh)
• Hungarian: uhu (hu)
• Icelandic: úfur (is)
• Indonesian: burung hantu bertanduk
• Ingrian: hyypiäs, öölapakko
• Irish: rí-ulchabhán m
• Italian: gufo reale m
• Japanese: 鷲木菟 (washimimizuku), ワシミミズク (ja)
• Kumyk: ябалакъ (yabalaq)
• Ladin: duch, puin
• Latgalian: opūgs m
• Latin: (Linnaeus) Bubo bubo
• Latvian: ūpis
• Lithuanian: didysis apuokas
• Lower Sorbian: šubut, wjelika sowa
• Macedonian: голем був (golem buv), голем ушест був m (golem ušest buv)
• Maltese: kokka imperjali
• Manx: hullad vooar f
• Negidal: умулгин
• Norwegian: hubro
• Occitan: ducàs, duganelàs
• Polish: puchacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: bufo-real m, corujão (pt) m
• Romani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: bufniță (ro) f
• Romansch: piv grond m
• Russian: фи́лин (ru) m (fílin)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: lidnu

  Skolt Sami: hõʹppi

• Sardinian: cuccu m, cuccumeu m
• Scottish Gaelic: cailleach-oidhche-mhòr f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: велика ушара f, буљина f

  Roman: sova ušara (sh)

• Slovak: výr skalný m
• Slovene: velika uharica f
• Southern Altai: ӱкӱ (ükü)
• Spanish: búho real m
• Swahili: kungwi
• Swedish: berguv (sv) c
• Turkish: puhu (tr)
• Turkmen: hüwi
• Ukrainian: пугач (uk) m (puhač)
• Upper Sorbian: šubut m, pujwuj m
• Venetan: dùgo m
• Vietnamese: cú đại bàng
• Volapük: lilalül (vo)
• Welsh: tylluan fawr f, tylluan eryraidd f
• West Frisian: oehoe

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Sami: bealljeskuolfi (this is most likely an alternative Northern Sami term to "eagle owl" as beallji means "ear" and skuolfi "snowy owl" in Northern Sami), bumbbástat

See also

• horned owl

Further reading

• Horned owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bubo bubo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bubo bubo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons