sparrow

Significado (Inglés)

1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
3. A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
5. (London, UK) A quick-witted, lively person.

Sinónimos

bird

🐦

dunnock

true sparrow

hedge sparrow

bunting

house sparrow

swallow

Prunella modularis

Passer

small person

genus Passer

English sparrow

mossie

common sparrow

accentor

spuggy

canary

finch

house-sparrow

little bird

nuthatch

penis

wild goose

Traducións

moineau

gorrión

Sperling

passero

Spatz

mus

pardal

pardal

serçe

σπουργίτης

passer

Passer

passerat

passereau

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈspæɹəʊ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: sparwe

Herdado de Old English: spearwa

Relativo a neerlandés: spreeuw

Relativo a alemán suízo: Spar

Relativo a alemán: Sperling

Relativo a dinamarqués: -

Relativo a noruegués bokmål: spurv

Relativo a noruegués nynorsk: sporv

Relativo a sueco: sparv

Relativo a bretón: frao

Relativo a Tokharian A: spārāñ

Relativo a grego antigo: ψάρ

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”).