heron

See also: héron

English

Wikipedia

heron

Etymology

From Middle English heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Old Dutch heigero (compare Middle Dutch heiger), from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from 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

• Albanian: çapka
• Arabic: مالك الحزين m (mālik al-ḥazīn)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلشون m (balshon)

• Armenian: ձկնկուլ (jknkul)
• Asturian: garza (ast) f
• Azeri: vağ
• Bashkir: селән (selän)
• Basque: koartza
• Belarusian: чапля f (čáplja)
• Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f
• Bulgarian: чапла (bg) f (čápla)
• Catalan: agró
• Chamicuro: askoli
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒼鷺, 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)
• Frankish: haigru m
• French: héron (fr) m
• Friulian: airon
• Galician: garza
• Georgian: ყანჩა (qanč’a)
• German: Reiher (de) m
• Greek: ερωδιός (el) m (erodiós), αρδέα f (ardéa), τσικνιάς (el) m (tsikniás)
• Greenlandic: qeriiaq
• Gullah: pojo
• Hindi: वगुला (vagulā)
• Hungarian: gém (hu), kócsag (hu)
• Icelandic: hegri (is) m
• Indonesian: kuntul (id), kowak (id), cangak (id)
• 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)
• Kazakh: құтан (qutan)
• Korean: 왜가리 (waegari), 해오라기 (haeoragi), 백로 (baengno) (白鷺 (ko))
• Ladin: airon
• Latgalian: ziurejs
• Latin: ardea (la) f, ardeola f
• Latvian: gārnis

• Lithuanian: garnys (lt)
• Low German: Reier, Reiger m
• Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m
• Macedonian: сива чапја f (síva čápja), чапја f (čápja)
• Maltese: russett
• Maori: heroni
• Nahuatl: aztatl
• Norwegian: hegre, heire m
• Novial: herone
• O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig
• Occitan: bernat, *aigreta (Old Occitan)
• Old English: hrāgra m
• Old French: hairon m heiron m
• Old High German: heigaro m, reigaro m
• 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: цапля (ru) f (cáplja)
• Northern Sami: ránesháigir
• Sardinian: perdigiorronadas, mengoni, menga, garza
• Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чапља f

  Roman: čaplja f

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

  Lower Sorbian: šytawa f, rybarnik m

• Spanish: garza (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: sabaku
• Swedish: häger (sv)
• Tagalog: tagák
• Thai: นกยาง (nók yaang)
• Turkish: balıkçıl (tr)
• Ukrainian: чапля f (čáplja)
• Upper Sorbian: čapla
• Vietnamese: con diệc, diệc (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) härod (vo), (♂) hihärod, (♀) jihärod, (♂♀ offspring) härodül, (obsolete) fitagil
• Welsh: crëyr
• West Flemish: reiger
• West Frisian: reager
• Wolof: warapuló mi

External links

• Heron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ardeidae on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Ardeidae
•  Ardeidae on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Ardeidae

Anagrams

• honer, rhone, Rhone, Rhône

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Middle French

Noun

heron m (plural herons)

1. heron

Descendants

• French: héron