curlew

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːlju/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɜːlu/
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• General-American: /ˈkɝlu/
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From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kojlik — migratory wading bird
• Albanian: kllinzë — migratory wading bird
• Arabic: كَرَوَان (karawān) — migratory wading bird
• Arabic: كروان (karawan) — migratory wading bird
• Asturian: algaraván — migratory wading bird
• Asturian: zarapicu — migratory wading bird
• Catalan: becut — migratory wading bird
• Catalan: polit — migratory wading bird
• Czech: koliha — migratory wading bird
• Dutch: wulp — migratory wading bird
• Esperanto: kurlo — migratory wading bird
• Esperanto: numenio — migratory wading bird
• Finnish: kuovi — migratory wading bird
• French: courlis — migratory wading bird
• Galician: mazarico — migratory wading bird
• German: Brachvogel — migratory wading bird
• Greek: νουμήνιος (noumínios) — migratory wading bird
• Greek: τουρλί (tourlí) — migratory wading bird
• Greek: τουρλίδα (tourlída) — migratory wading bird
• Hebrew: חֶרְמְשׁוֹן — migratory wading bird
• Hungarian: póling — migratory wading bird
• Ingrian: sookulikka — migratory wading bird
• Ingrian: vihmakulli — migratory wading bird
• Ingrian: vesikulli — migratory wading bird
• Irish: crotach — migratory wading bird
• Irish: cuirliún — migratory wading bird
• Italian: chiurlo — migratory wading bird
• Latvian: kuitila — migratory wading bird
• Lithuanian: kuolinga — migratory wading bird
• Navajo: daakʼį́į́ʼ — migratory wading bird
• Norman: couorlieu — migratory wading bird
• Nyunga: weerlow — migratory wading bird
• Polish: kulik — migratory wading bird
• Polish: kulig — migratory wading bird
• Portuguese: maçarico — migratory wading bird
• Romanian: corlă — migratory wading bird
• Romanian: găinușă-de-baltă — migratory wading bird
• Russian: кроншне́п (kronšnép) — migratory wading bird
• Scots: whaup — migratory wading bird
• Scottish Gaelic: guilbneach — migratory wading bird
• Spanish: zarapito — migratory wading bird
• Swahili: membe — migratory wading bird
• Turkish: kervan çulluğu — migratory wading bird
• Venetan: arcasa — migratory wading bird
• Welsh: gylfinir — migratory wading bird