thrush

See also: Thrush

English

a Song Thrush

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹʌʃ/

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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 drdwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

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

• Afrikaans: lyster
• 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)

• 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)

• 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 m, Drossel f
• Luxembourgish: Dréischel f
• Macedonian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Mazanderani: تیکا‎ (tikâ)
• 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
• 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 m
• Swedish: trast (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipit-tulog
• Ukrainian: дрізд m (drizd)
• Venetian: tordo m
• Welsh: bronfraith 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

Origin 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 translations at candidiasis

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)

• Czech: kandidóza f, poševní kvasinková infekce f
• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: muguet (fr) m (oral), mycose vaginale f (vaginal)
• German: Candidiasis f, Vaginalpilz m, [bei Pferden:] Strahlfäule f
• Greek: άφτρα (el) f (áftra)
• Hungarian: (oral) szájpenész (hu), (vaginal) hüvelygomba, (either) candida-fertőzés

• Irish: salachar béil m
• Italian: candida (it) f, candidosi (it) f
• Polish: drożdżyca f
• Portuguese: cândida (pt) f
• Russian: моло́чница (ru) f (molóčnica), кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: kandidijaza (sh), soor
• Slovak: kandidóza f
• 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 (sq) f
• Dutch: spruw(2)

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

See also

• candida
• turdiform