eagle owl

See also: eagle-owl

English

Alternative forms

eagle-owl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəl ˈɑʊl/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

eagle owl (plural eagle owls)

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

Usage notes

According to relatively recent genetic research the genus Bubo also includes the 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
Altai:
Southern Altai: ӱкӱ (ükü)
Aragonese: bobón m
Asturian: curuxón (ast), gárabu (ast), uxu (ast)
Azerbaijani: yapalaq
Basque: hontz handi
Belarusian: фі́лін (fílin)
Breton: toud meur
Bulgarian: бу́хал (bg) m (búhal)
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
Frisian:
West Frisian: oehoe
Friulian: dűc, dűt
Galician: bufo real m
German: Uhu (de) m; Schuhu m (dialectal)
Greek: μπούφος (el) m (boúfos)
Ancient Greek: 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
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
Romansh: 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

Latin: sova ušara (sh)
Slovak: výr m
Slovene: velika uharica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šubut, wjelika sowa

Upper Sorbian: šubut m, pujwuj m
Spanish: búho real m
Swahili: kungwi (sw)
Swedish: berguv (sv) c
Turkish: puhu (tr)
Turkmen: hüwi
Ukrainian: пугач (uk) m (puhač)
Venetan: dùgo m
Vietnamese: cú đại bàng
Volapük: lilalül (vo)
Welsh: tylluan fawr f, tylluan eryraidd f

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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