sparrow

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

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.

Sinonimai

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

Vertimai

moineau

gorrión

Sperling

passero

Spatz

mus

pardal

pardal

serçe

σπουργίτης

passer

Passer

passerat

passereau

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/ˈspæɹəʊ/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Paveldėta iš Vidurio Anglijos: sparwe

Paveldėta iš senoji anglų: spearwa

Sutampa su olandų: spreeuw

Sutampa su Šveicarijos vokiečių: Spar

Sutampa su vokiečių: Sperling

Sutampa su danų: -

Sutampa su norvegų bukmolas: spurv

Sutampa su naujoji norvegų: sporv

Sutampa su švedų: sparv

Sutampa su bretonų: frao

Sutampa su Tokharian A: spārāñ

Sutampa su senovės graikų: 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”).