sparrow

Значение (Английский)

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.

Синонимы

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

Переводы

moineau

gorrión

Sperling

passero

Spatz

mus

pardal

pardal

serçe

σπουργίτης

passer

Passer

passerat

passereau

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈspæɹəʊ/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: sparwe

Унаследовано от староанглийский: spearwa

Родственно нидерландский: spreeuw

Родственно швейцарский немецкий: Spar

Родственно немецкий: Sperling

Родственно датский: -

Родственно норвежский букмол: spurv

Родственно нюнорск: sporv

Родственно шведский: sparv

Родственно бретонский: frao

Родственно Tokharian A: spārāñ

Родственно древнегреческий: 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”).