heron

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• /ˈhɛɹən/
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* As an English and French surname, from heron. * As an English surname, from Harome in Yorkshire, from Old English harum, dative plural of hær (“stone”) * As an Irish surname, from O'Heron, from Ó hUidhrín (literally “descendant of Uidhrín”), from odhar (“swarthy”). * As an Irish surname, from Ó hEaráin; see Haren. * As an Irish surname, from Mac Giolla Chiaráin (literally “son of the servant of Ciarán”); see Kieran.

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.

166 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: reier — bird
• Albanian: gatë — bird
• Albanian: çafkë — bird
• Western Apache: kʼos joolí — bird
• Arabic: مَالِكُ الحَزِين (māliku l-ḥazīn) — bird
• Arabic: بَلَشُون (balašūn) — bird
• Arabic: بلشون (balšōn) — bird
• Aragonese: garra — bird
• Armenian: տառեղ (taṙeġ) — bird
• Assamese: বগলী (bogoli) — bird
• Assamese: বগ (bog) — bird
• Assamese: কণামুচৰি (konamusori) — bird
• Asturian: garza — bird
• Azerbaijani: vağ — bird
• Bashkir: селән (selən) — bird
• Basque: lertxun — bird
• Basque: koartza — bird
• Belarusian: ча́пля (čáplja) — bird
• Breton: kerc’heiz — bird
• Bulgarian: ча́пла (čápla) — bird
• Catalan: agró — bird
• Catalan: bernat pescaire — bird
• Chamicuro: askoli — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 蒼鷺 /苍鹭 (cānglù) — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 鷺 /鹭 (lù) — bird
• Chuvash: чарлан (čarlan) — bird
• Czech: volavka — bird
• Danish: hejre — bird
• Dutch: reiger — bird
• Erzya: сенксь (senkś) — bird
• Esperanto: ardeo — bird
• Estonian: haigur — bird
• Faroese: hegri — bird
• Finnish: haikara — bird
• French: héron — bird
• Old French: hairon m heiron — bird
• West-Frisian: reager — bird
• Friulian: airon — bird
• Galician: garza — bird
• Galician: ghanza — bird
• Georgian: ყანჩა (q̇anča) — bird
• German: Reiher — bird
• Old High German: heigaro — bird
• Old High German: reigaro — bird
• Greek: ερωδιός (erodiós) — bird
• Greek: αρδέα (ardéa) — bird
• Greek: τσικνιάς (tsikniás) — bird
• Ancient Greek: ἐρῳδιός (erōidiós) — bird
• Greenlandic: qeriiaq — bird
• Gullah: pojo — bird
• Hebrew: אֲנָפָה (anafá) — bird
• Hindi: वगुला (vagulā) — bird
• Hindi: बगला (baglā) — bird
• Hindi: बगुला (bagulā) — bird
• Hindi: बक (bak) — bird
• Hungarian: gém — bird
• Icelandic: hegri — bird
• Ido: herono — bird
• Indonesian: kuntul — bird
• Indonesian: kowak — bird
• Indonesian: cangak — bird
• Interlingua: hairon — bird
• Irish: corr — bird
• Middle Irish: corr — bird
• Italian: airone — bird
• Japanese: 鷺 (sagi) — bird
• Japanese: サギ (sagi) — bird
• Japanese: 白鷺 (shirasagi) — bird
• Japanese: シラサギ (shirasagi) — bird
• Javanese: blekok — bird
• Kaitag: гӏятӏнучӏ (ʿəṭnuč̣) — bird
• Kaitag: архитӏла шве (arꭓiṭla šve) — bird
• Kazakh: құтан (qūtan) — bird
• Korean: 왜가리 (waegari) — bird
• Korean: 해오라기 (hae'oragi) — bird
• Korean: 백로 (baengno) — bird
• Kumyk: чыл (çıl) — bird
• Central Kurdish: شاوە (şawe) — bird
• Kyrgyz: кытан (kıtan) — bird
• Ladin: airon — bird
• Latgalian: ziurejs — bird
• Latin: ardea — bird
• Latin: ardeola — bird
• Latvian: gārnis — bird
• Lithuanian: garnys — bird
• Low German: Reier — bird
• Low German: Reiger — bird
• Lushootseed: sbəq'waʔ — bird
• Luxembourgish: Räer — bird
• Macedonian: сива чапја (siva čapja) — bird
• Macedonian: чапја (čapja) — bird
• Malay: pucung — bird
• Malayalam: കൊക്ക് (kokkŭ) — bird
• Malayalam: ബകം (bakaṁ) — bird
• Maltese: russett — bird
• Manx: coar ny hastan — bird
• Māori: heroni — bird
• Marathi: बगळा (Baglhā) — bird
• Eastern Mari: чарлаҥге (čarlaŋge) — bird
• Western Mari: цӓрлӓнгӹ (cärlängÿ) — bird
• Mazanderani: وکا (vekā) — bird
• Mi'kmaq: tmgwatignej — bird
• Minangkabau: bangau — bird
• Mingrelian: ჸანჩი (ʾanči) — bird
• Nahuatl: aztatl — bird
• Nanai: вачака (wačaka) — bird
• Nivkh: вазӽ (vazẋ) — bird
• Nivkh: вазаӽ (vazaẋ) — bird
• Norwegian: hegre — bird
• Norwegian: heire — bird
• Occitan: bernat pescaire — bird
• Occitan: guiraut pescaire — bird
• Old Occitan: aigreta — bird
• Old English: hrāgra — bird
• O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig — bird
• Persian: حواصیل (havâsil) — bird
• Persian: بوتیمار (butimâr) — bird
• Persian: چگرنه (čegarne) — bird
• Piedmontese: neiron — bird
• Polish: czapla — bird
• Portuguese: garça — bird
• Quechua: wakchilla — bird
• Romani: kokosturko — bird
• Romani: kokosturka — bird
• Romanian: stârc — bird
• Romanian: bâtlan — bird
• Romansh: irun — bird
• Russian: ца́пля (cáplja) — bird
• Northern Sami: ránesháigir — bird
• Sanskrit: बक (baka) — bird
• Sardinian: perdigiorronadas — bird
• Sardinian: mengoni — bird
• Sardinian: menga — bird
• Sardinian: garza — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: чапља — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: čaplja — bird
• Shona: nyarupani — bird
• Slovak: volavka — bird
• Slovene: čaplja — bird
• Lower Sorbian: šytawa — bird
• Lower Sorbian: rybarnik — bird
• Upper Sorbian: čapla — bird
• Southern Altai: чарлак (čarlak) — bird
• Spanish: garza — bird
• Sranan Tongo: sabaku — bird
• Sranan Tongo: kumawari — bird
• Svan: ყა̈̄ნჯუ̂ (q̇ǟnǯû) — bird
• Swedish: häger — bird
• Tagalog: tagák — bird
• Tagalog: bakaw — bird
• Tagalog: garsa — bird
• Telugu: నారాయణపక్షి (nārāyaṇapakṣi) — bird
• Tepecano: váko·n — bird
• Thai: นกยาง (nók yaang) — bird
• Tofa: шилен — bird
• Turkish: balıkçıl — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: بالقجیل (balıkcıl) — bird
• Ukrainian: ча́пля (čáplja) — bird
• Venetan: airon — bird
• Vietnamese: diệc — bird
• Volapük: härod — bird
• Welsh: crëyr — bird
• Welsh: crychydd — bird
• West Flemish: reiger — bird
• Wolof: warapuló mi — bird