لقلق

Concepts

stork

storks

chattering

babble

Stork

gossip

chatter

Translations

cigogne

Storch

cegonha

cigüeña

cicogna

πελαργός

ciconia

cigonya

ooievaar

leylek

cigonha

λελέκι

cicogne

Ciconiidae

Etymology

Compare Akkadian 𒀀𒊩𒄷 (/⁠laqlaqqu⁠/, “stork”) and Persian لکلک (lak-lak). It is possible that the term came from Akkadian via unattested Aramaic, as بَلَّارِج (ballārij) is suspect to be from a lost Coptic form, for currently the animal is, despite multiple known terms in Aramaic, only attested in the literary lects of Jewish Literary Aramaic and Classical Syriac.