lapwing

English

a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Old English hlēapewince, from hlēapan (“to leap”) + *winc- ("sway, totter") (because of its manner of flight). The modern form is influenced by folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæpwɪŋ/

Noun

lapwing (plural lapwings)

1. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
   • 1986, Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149,

     Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.

   • 2010, Des Thompson, Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers, page 36,

     The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.

   • 2010, Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar, page 244,

     Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.

   1. The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
2. A silly man.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V Scene 2,

     This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

Derived terms

• African wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
• banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
• black-headed lapwing (Vanellus tectus)
• black-winged lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus)
• blacksmith lapwing (Vanellus armatus)
• brown-chested lapwing (Vanellus superciliosus)
• cayenne lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
• crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
• gray-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
• gray lapwing (Pluvialis squatarola, syn. Squatarola cinerea)
• Javan lapwing (Vanellus macropterus)
• long-toed lapwing (Vanellus crassirostris)
• masked lapwing (Vanellus miles)
• northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
• pied lapwing (Vanellus cayanus)
• red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
• river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
• Senegal lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
• southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
• spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus)
• spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
• wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
• white-crowned lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
• white-headed lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
• white-tailed lapwing (Vanellus leucurus)
• yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)
• See also Lapwing#List of species in taxonomic order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae

• Belarusian: кні́гаўка f (kníhaŭka), чы́біс m (čýbis)
• Bulgarian: калу́герица f (kalúgerica)
• Catalan: fredeluga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 田鳧 (zh), 田凫 (zh) (tiánfú)

• Czech: čejka (cs) f
• Danish: vibe (da) c
• Dutch: kievit (nl) m
• Esperanto: vanelo
• Faroese: vípa f
• Finnish: hyyppä (fi)
• French: vanneau (fr)
• Galician: galdaripo (gl) m, tamouca f, tabuela f
• Georgian: პრანწია (ṗranc̣ia)
• German: Kiebitz (de) m
• Greek: καλημάνα f (kalimána)
• Hungarian: bíbic (hu)
• Icelandic: vepja (is) f
• Ido: vanelo (io)
• Irish: adhaircín m
• Italian: vanello m
• Japanese: タゲリ (ja) (tageri)
• Lithuanian: pempė (lt) f

• Luxembourgish: Piwitsch m
• Navajo: tábąąsdísítsoh
• Norman: pievie f
• Polish: czajka (pl) f
• Portuguese: quero-quero (pt) m
• Romanian: nagâț (ro) m
• Russian: чи́бис (ru) m (číbis)
• Samogitian: pīmpė f, gīvė f
• Scottish Gaelic: curracag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вивак m

  Roman: vivak (sh) m

• Slovak: cíbik m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kibut m

• Spanish: avefría (es) f, queltehue (es), tero (es)
• Swedish: vipa (sv) c
• Ukrainian: чи́бис m (čýbys), ча́йка f (čájka)
• Vilamovian: kiwic
• Volapük: vanul (vo)
• Welsh: cornicyll m
• West Frisian: ljip (fy)

See also

• plover

Anagrams

• Pawling, pawling