ebabil

Meaning

A medium-sized bird from the family Apodidae; the Common swift.

Concepts

common swift

swift

Synonyms

karasağan

Translations

Mauersegler

martinet noir

rondone

gierzwaluw

andorinhão-preto

avión

✈️

vencejo

saboc

vencejo común

falzia

falciot negre

mavrostachtára

Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.baːˈbil/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: ابابیل

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish ابابیل (ebābil, “large flights of birds, legendary birds in the Qur'an, held by some to have been the alpine swift or a species of swallow”), from Arabic أَبَابِيل (ʔabābīl).