stork

See also: Stork and Störk

English

Wikispecies

A stork.

Etymology

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur.

Pronunciation

• enPR: stôrk, IPA^(key): /stɔɹk/
• IPA^(key): /stɔːk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: stalk (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

stork (plural storks)

1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
2. (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
3. (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

• black-necked stork
• giant stork
• hair-crested stork
• saddle-billed stork
• storky

Translations

large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae

• Afrikaans: ooievaar
• Albanian: shtërg (sq) m, kanushë (sq) f, lejlek (sq)
• Arabic: لَقْلَق (laqlaq), بَجَعَة f (bajaʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic: لقلق m (la'la'), بجعة (bagaʕa)

• Armenian: արագիլ (hy) (aragil)
• Assamese: সাৰেং (xareṅ)
• Asturian: cigüeña f
• Azerbaijani: leylək
• Bashkir: ҡауҙы (qawźı)
• Basque: amiamoko (eu), zikoina (eu)
• Belarusian: бу́сел (be) m (búsjel), бацян (be) m (bacjan)
• Breton: c'hwibon (br)
• Bulgarian: щъ̀ркел m (štǎ̀rkel)
• Catalan: cigonya (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鸛／鹳 (zh) (guàn), 鹳 (zh) (guàn), 鸛鳥／鹳鸟 (guànniǎo), 鹳鸟 (guànniǎo)

• Cornish: hwibon
• Czech: čáp (cs) m
• Danish: stork (da)
• Dutch: ooievaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: cikonio
• Estonian: toonekurg (et)
• Faroese: storkur (fo) m
• Finnish: kattohaikara (fi)
• French: cigogne (fr) f
• Friulian: cicogne
• Galician: cegoña
• Georgian: წერო (c̣ero)
• German: Storch (de) m, Adebar (de) m (dialectal or poetic)
• Greek: πελαργός (el) (pelargós), λελέκι (el) n (leléki)

  Ancient: πελαργός (pelargós)

• Hebrew: חסידה (he) f (khasida)
• Hindi: राजबक m (rājbak)
• Hungarian: gólya (hu), eszterág (hu) (rare)
• Icelandic: storkur (is)
• Indonesian: bangau (id)
• Irish: storc
• Italian: cicogna (it) f
• Japanese: 鸛 (ja) (コウノトリ, kōnotori)
• Kazakh: ләйлек (läilek)
• Korean: 황새 (hwangsae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: لەقلەق (leqleq), حاجی لەقلەق (ḧacî leqleq)

• Ladin: zicogna
• Latgalian: žugure f
• Latin: cicōnia f
• Latvian: stārķis m, stārks m
• Ligurian: çighéugna f
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• Lithuanian: gandras (lt) m, starkus m (dialect)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: aiber (nds) (Gronings)

  German Low German: Stork m, Störk m, Aadboor (nds) m, Eebeer m

• Lower Sorbian: bośon
• Luxembourgish: Storch m
• Macedonian: штрк m (štrk)
• Malagasy: falamakavava (mg)
• Malay: burung botak, ranggung
• Maltese: ċikonja
• Maori: tāka
• (deprecated template usage) Marathi: (bagala)
• Navajo: tsídii bidaanézí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stork (no) m

  Nynorsk: stork m

• Occitan: cigonha (oc)
• Old English: storc m
• Persian: لک‌لک (laklak)
• Polish: bocian (pl) m, bociek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cegonha (pt)
• Romani: kokosturko m
• Romanian: barză (ro) f, barza-albă f
• Romansch: cicogna
• Russian: а́ист (ru) m (áist)
• Sardinian: cicògna, cicónnia, tziconna
• Scottish Gaelic: corra-bhàn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рода f, штрк m

  Roman: roda (sh) f, štrk (sh) m

• Slovak: bocian (sk) m
• Slovene: štorklja (sl) f
• Spanish: cigüeña (es) f
• Swahili: kongoti
• Swedish: stork (sv)
• Tatar: ләкләк (tt) (läkläk)
• Turkish: leylek (tr)
• Ukrainian: леле́ка m (leléka), чорногу́з m (čornohúz), бу́сел (uk) m (búsel)
• Upper Sorbian: baćon
• Uzbek: laylak (uz)
• Vietnamese: cò (vi)
• Volapük: stork (vo)
• Votic: kurtši
• Welsh: ciconia, storc, storciaid m pl
• West Frisian: earrebarre (fy)

mythical bringer of babies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送子鸟 (sòng zǐ niǎo)

• Finnish: haikara (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: аист (ru) (aist)
• Swedish: storken (sv) c

See also

• crane
• egret
• heron

Anagrams

• Korts, skort, torsk

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish stork, from Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]

Noun

stork c (singular definite storken, plural indefinite storke)

1. stork

Declension

Declension of stork

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stork	storken	storke	storkene
genitive	storks	storkens	storkes	storkenes

References

• “stork” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch storke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɔrk/
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

• Audio:

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Noun

stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)

1. (dialectal, uncommon) stork
   • 1700, Mosaïze historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, part 2, publ. by Willem & David Goeree, page 461, quoting a saying.

     Het regtschaapen Haagze Waapen, is een Stork; / Dats een Mikker voor de Kikker en de Work.

   • 1864, J. A. Klokman, "Een Achterhoeksche boerenzoon, die Artis bezoekt", in Het leeskabinet. Mengelwerk tot gezellig onderhoud voor beschaafde kringen, volume 4, 18.

     En betjen vèrder, regs af daor, trof ik 'n heele boel van die lankbeenige veugele an; 'et wazzen allerlei vremde soorten van kranen, storken (ooijevaars) en zuk goed; van die storken hadden ze spierwitte en pikzwarte.

Synonyms

• ooievaar

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Icelandic

Noun

1. indefinite accusative singular of storkur

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• storc, storck, storke

Etymology

From Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔrk/

Noun

stork (plural storkes)

1. stork

Descendants

• English: stork
• Scots: stork

References

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storker, definite plural storkene)

1. a stork

Derived terms

• storkenebb

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storkar, definite plural storkane)

1. stork

Derived terms

• storkenebb

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.

Noun

stork c

1. (zoology) stork

Inflection

Declension of stork
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	stork	storken	storkar	storkarna
Genitive	storks	storkens	storkars	storkarnas

Anagrams

• korts, skrot, torsk

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English stork.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stoɾk/

Noun

stork (nominative plural storks)

1. (male or female) stork

Declension

declension of stork

	singular	plural
nominative	stork	storks
genitive	storka	storkas
dative	storke	storkes
accusative	storki	storkis
vocative 1	o stork!	o storks!
predicative 2	storku	storkus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• histork
• historkül
• jistork
• jistorkül
• storkahoned
• storkanäst
• storkül
• storkalög
• storkalögik

Related terms

• stor ( = stork, obsolete)
• storasmabed