thrush

See also: Thrush

English

a Song Thrush

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Etymology 1

From a combination of Old English þrȳsce (from Proto-Germanic *þrūskijǭ) and Old English *þrēasce (attested in Anglian þrǣsce; from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and American Robin have.
2. (US, colloquial) A female singer.

Derived terms

• pale thrush
• song thrush
• true thrush

Translations

one of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae

• Armenian: կեռնեխ (hy) (keṙnex)
• Aromanian: sturdzu m, strudz m
• Belarusian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Bulgarian: дрозд (bg) m (drozd)
• Catalan: tord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶇 (zh), 鸫 (zh) (dōng), 畫眉鳥 (zh), 画眉鸟 (zh) (huàméiniǎo)

• Czech: drozd (cs) m
• Danish: drossel (da) c
• Dutch: lijster (nl) f
• Esperanto: turdo (eo)
• Faroese: trøstur m
• Finnish: rastas (fi)
• French: grive (fr) m
• Friulian: dordei m
• Georgian: შაშვი (šašvi)
• German: Drossel (de) f
• Greek: κίχλη (el) f (kíchli), (colloquial) τσίχλα (el) f (tsíchla)
• Hungarian: rigó (hu)
• Icelandic: þröstur (is) m
• Ido: turdo (io)
• Interlingua: turdo
• Irish: smólach m
• Italian: tordo (it) m
• Japanese: 鶇 (ja) (ツグミ, tsugumi)
• Korean: 지빠귀 (jippagwi)
• Latgalian: strods m
• Latin: turdus m
• Latvian: strazds

• Lithuanian: strãzdas (lt) m
• Low German: Liester (nds) m, Drossel (nds) f
• Luxembourgish: Dréischel f
• Macedonian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Mazanderani: تیکا‎ (tikâ)
• Norman: graïve m (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trost (no) m

  Nynorsk: trast m, f, trost m, f

• Occitan: tordre (oc), tord m
• Old Norse: þrǫstr m
• Polish: drozd (pl) m
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m (PT), sabiá (pt) (BR)
• Romanian: sturz (ro) m
• Russian: дрозд (ru) m (drozd)
• Scottish Gaelic: smeòrach f
• Serbo-Croatian: drȍzd (sh) m, drozak (sh), дрозд m, дрозак m
• Sicilian: turdu (scn) m
• Slovak: drozd (sk) m
• Slovene: drozg (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drozna f

• Spanish: tordo (es) m, mirlo (es) m, zorzal m
• Swedish: trast (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipit-tulog
• Ukrainian: дрізд m (drizd)
• Venetian: tordo m
• Welsh: bronfraith f
• Yiddish: דראָסל‎ m (drosl)

woman who sings popular songs

• Finnish: laulajatar (fi)

• Russian: певи́чка (ru) f (pevíčka)

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish trøske.

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. A fungal infection caused by Candida, now especially of the vagina; candidiasis.

Synonyms

• candidiasis

Derived terms

• oral thrush

Translations

fungal infection

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)

• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: muguet (fr) m (oral), mycose vaginale f (vaginal)
• Irish: salachar béil m

• Polish: drożdżyca f
• Portuguese: cândida (pt) f
• Russian: моло́чница (ru) f (molóčnica), кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: kandidijaza (sh), soor
• Turkish: kandidiyaz (tr), kandidoz (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mullenjë f
• Dutch: spruw(2)

• Hungarian ^{(please verify)} szájpenész (2)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} turd, ^{(please verify)} musigaturd

See also

• candida
• turdiform