thrush

See also: Thrush

English

a song thrush

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹʌʃ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:

     I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.

2. (US, colloquial) A female singer.

Derived terms

• pale thrush (Turdus pallidus)
• song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
• true thrush (Turdus spp.)
• great thrush (Turdus fuscater)
• wrenthrush (Zeledonia coronata)
• ant thrush (Neocossyphus spp.)
• missel thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
• hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus).
• mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• water thrush (Parkesia spp.)
• Wilson's thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
• brown thrush (Toxostoma rufum)
• mistletoe thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• mocking thrush (Harporhynchus rufus)
• ring thrush (Turdus torquatus)
• rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
• varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius)
• migratory thrush (Turdus migratorius)
• mountain thrush (Turdus plebejus)
• shrike thrush
• whistling thrush (Myophonus spp.)
• babbling thrush
• ground thrush (Pittidae spp.)
• jay thrush (Leiothrichidae spp.)
• native thrush (Pachycephala olivacea)
• olive-backed thrush (Hylocichla ustulata)
• screech thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• tawny thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
• squawking thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• tit thrush (Suthora spp. etc.)
• waterthrush (Parkesia spp.)
• willow thrush (Catharus fuscescens)

Translations

one of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae

• Afrikaans: lyster
• Arabic: دُجّ‎ (dujj)
• 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／鸫 (zh) (dōng)

• Czech: drozd (cs) m
• Danish: drossel (da) c
• Dutch: lijster (nl) f
• Esperanto: turdo (eo)
• Estonian: rästas (et)
• Faroese: trøstur m
• Finnish: rastas (fi)
• French: grive (fr) m
• Friulian: dordei m
• Galician: arnelo m, chalra f, malvís m, tordo m
• Georgian: შაშვი (šašvi)
• German: Drossel (de) f
• Greek: τσίχλα (el) f (tsíchla)

  Ancient: κίχλη f (kíkhlē)

• Hebrew: קִיכְלִי‎ (he) m (qichlí)
• 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
• Laz: ზესკუ (zesǩu), მზესკუ (mzesǩu), მზესქუ (mzesku), ზემსკუ (zemsǩu), ზემსქუ (zemsku)
• Lithuanian: strãzdas (lt) m
• Low German: Liester m, Drossel f
• Luxembourgish: Dréischel f
• Macedonian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Mazanderani: تیکا‎ (tikâ)
• Mingrelian: ზესკვი (zesḳvi), ზესქვი (zeskvi)
• Neapolitan: marvizzo m
• Norman: graïve m (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trost (no) m

  Nynorsk: trast m or f, trost m or f

• Occitan: tordre (oc), tord m
• Old Norse: þrǫstr m
• Ottoman Turkish: آردج قوشی‎ (ardıç kuşu)
• Polish: drozd (pl) m
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m (chiefly Portugal), sabiá (pt) m (Brazil)
• 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 (es) m
• Swedish: trast (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipit-tulog
• Ukrainian: дрізд m (drizd)
• Venetian: tordo m
• Volapük: turd
• Welsh: bronfraith (cy) f
• Yiddish: דראָסל‎ m (drosl)
• Zulu: umunswi class 3/4

woman who sings popular songs

• Finnish: laulajatar (fi)
• Russian: певи́чка (ru) f (pevíčka)

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish trøske, from Proto-Germanic *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.

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 — see also candidiasis

• Breton: borb m
• Bulgarian: млечница f (mlečnica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)

• Czech: kandidóza f, poševní kvasinková infekce f
• Danish: trøske
• Dutch: spruw (nl) f
• Faroese: trøska f
• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: (general) muguet (fr) m, (vaginal) mycose vaginale f
• German: Soor (de) m, Soormykose f, (in horses) Strahlfäule f
• Greek: άφτρα (el) f (áftra)
• Hungarian: (oral) szájpenész (hu), (vaginal) hüvelygomba, (either) candida-fertőzés
• Irish: salachar béil m
• Italian: mughetto (it) m, candida (it) f, candidosi (it) f
• Macedonian: соор (soor)
• Polish: (oral) pleśniawka f, (vaginal) drożdżyca f
• Portuguese: sapinhos m pl, cândida (pt) f
• Russian: моло́чница (ru) f (molóčnica), кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: kandidijaza (sh), soor
• Slovak: kandidóza f
• Spanish: (oral) sapito m, algodoncillo (es) m
• Swedish: torsk (sv)
• Turkish: kandidiyaz (tr), kandidoz (tr)
• Welsh: llindag m, gân m or f, (in horses) trysgli f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mullenjë (sq) f
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} turd, ^{(please verify)} musigaturd

See also

• candida
• turdiform

References

• “*thrush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.