sparrow
Εννοια (Αγγλικός)
- The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
- A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
- A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
- Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
- (London, UK) A quick-witted, lively person.
Έννοιες
σπουργίτης
σπουργίτι
spourgítis
στρουθίο
πασσερίδες
Συνώνυμα
true sparrow
Prunella modularis
Passer
small person
genus Passer
common sparrow
house-sparrow
little bird
Μεταφράσεις
Συχνότητα
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/ˈspæɹəʊ/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)
In summary
From Middle English sparwe, sparowe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”). Cognate with Dutch spreeuw (“starling”), Alemannic German Spar (“sparrow”), German Sperling (“sparrow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål spurv (“sparrow”), Norwegian Nynorsk sporv (“sparrow”), Swedish sparv (“sparrow”), Breton frao (“crow”), Tocharian A ṣpārāñ, Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”).
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