heron

See also: Heron and héron

English

Etymology

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Old Dutch *heigero (compare Middle Dutch heiger), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹən

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

Coordinate terms

• (a wading bird): egret, bittern, crane, heronsew, stork

Translations

bird

• Afrikaans: reier
• Albanian: gatë (sq) f, çapkë f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: kʼos joolí (blue)

• Arabic: بَلَشُون‎ (balašūn)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلشون‎ m (balšōn)

• Aragonese: garra
• Armenian: տառեղ (hy) (taṙeł)
• Assamese: বগলী (bogoli), বগ (bog), কণামুচৰি (konamusori)
• Asturian: garza (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: vağ
• Bashkir: селән (selän)
• Basque: koartza
• Belarusian: ча́пля f (čáplja)
• Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f
• Bulgarian: ча́пла (bg) f (čápla)
• Catalan: agró, ardeid, bernat pescaire m
• Chamicuro: askoli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒼鷺 (zh), 苍鹭 (zh) (cānglù), 鷺 (zh), 鹭 (zh) (lù)

• Czech: volavka (cs) f
• Danish: hejre (da) c
• Dutch: reiger (nl) m
• Erzya: сёнксь (sjonksʹ)
• Esperanto: ardeo (eo)
• Estonian: haigur
• Faroese: hegri (fo)
• Finnish: haikara (fi)
• French: héron (fr) m
• Friulian: airon
• Galician: garza, ghanza f
• Georgian: ყანჩა (q̇anča)
• German: Reiher (de) m
• Greek: ερωδιός (el) m (erodiós), αρδέα f (ardéa), τσικνιάς (el) m (tsikniás)

  Ancient: ἐρῳδιός m (erōidiós)

• Greenlandic: qeriiaq
• Gullah: pojo
• Hebrew: אֲנָפָה‎ (he) f (anafá)
• Hindi: वगुला (vagulā), बगला (hi) m (baglā), बगुला (hi) m (bagulā), बक (hi) m (bak)
• Hungarian: gém (hu), kócsag (hu), bakcsó (hu) (only genus Nycticorax; see there for more synonyms)
• Icelandic: hegri (is) m
• Ido: herono (io)
• Indonesian: kuntul (id), kowak (id), cangak (id)
• Interlingua: hairon
• Irish: corr
• Italian: airone (it) m
• Japanese: 鷺 (ja) (さぎ, sagi), サギ (sagi), 白鷺 (しらさぎ, shirasagi), シラサギ (shirasagi)
• Javanese: blekok (jv)
• Kazakh: құтан (qutan)
• Korean: 왜가리 (waegari), 해오라기 (ko) (hae'oragi), 백로(白鷺) (ko) (baengno)
• Kumyk: чыл (çıl)
• Ladin: airon
• Latgalian: ziurejs
• Latin: ardea (la) f, ardeola f
• Latvian: gārnis
• Lithuanian: garnys (lt)

• Low German: Reier, Reiger m
• Lutshootseed: sbəq'ʷaʔ
• Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m
• Macedonian: сива чапја f (siva čapja), чапја f (čapja)
• Maltese: russett
• Manx: coar ny hastan f
• Maori: heroni
• Mi'kmaq: tmgwatignej anim
• Mingrelian: ჸანჩი (ʾanči)
• Nahuatl: aztatl
• Nanai: вачака
• Northern Sami: ránesháigir
• Norwegian: hegre, heire m
• O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig
• Occitan: bernat

  Old Occitan: *aigreta

• Old English: hrāgra m
• Old French: hairon m heiron m
• Old High German: heigaro m, reigaro m
• Persian: حواصیل‎ (fa) (havâsil), بوتیمار‎ (fa) (butimâr), چگرنه‎ (čegarne)
• Piedmontese: neiron
• Polish: czapla (pl) f
• Portuguese: garça (pt) f
• Quechua: wakchilla
• Romani: kokosturko m, kokosturka f
• Romanian: stârc (ro) m, bâtlan (ro) m
• Romansch: irun
• Russian: ца́пля (ru) f (cáplja)
• Sanskrit: बक (sa) m (baka)
• Sardinian: perdigiorronadas, mengoni, menga, garza
• Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чапља f

  Roman: čaplja (sh) f

• Shona: nyarupani
• Slovak: volavka
• Slovene: čaplja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šytawa f, rybarnik m

• Spanish: garza (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: sabaku
• Svan: ყა̈̄ნჯუ̂ (q̇ǟnǯû)
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: häger (sv)
• Tagalog: tagák, bakaw, garsa
• Telugu: నారాయణపక్షి (te) (nārāyaṇapakṣi)
• Tepecano: váko·n
• Thai: นกยาง (th) (nók yaang)
• Tofa: шилен
• Turkish: balıkçıl (tr)
• Ukrainian: ча́пля f (čáplja)
• Upper Sorbian: čapla
• Vietnamese: diệc (vi)
• Volapük: härod (vo)
• Welsh: crëyr, crychydd m, crychyddod m pl
• West Flemish: reiger
• West Frisian: reager c
• Wolof: warapuló mi
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• heron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ardeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ardeidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Honer, Horne, Rhone, Rhône, honer, horne, rhone

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• hayroun, heyroun, heroun, herne, heiron, heyrune, heyrone, herowne, heern

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, *haigrō, from Old Dutch *heigero, from Frankish/Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, from earlier *hraigrô via dissimilation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛːrun/, /ˈhɛːr(ə)n/, /ˈhɛi̯run/, /hɛi̯ˈruːn/

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. the grey heron (Ardea cinerea), or (rarely) a representation of it used in heraldry
2. the meat of a heron used as food.

Related terms

• heronsewe

Descendants

• English: heron, hern
• Scots: hern

References

• “heirǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• hairon

Etymology

From Old French heron, of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *hraigrō.

Noun

heron m (plural herons)

1. heron

Descendants

• French: héron