plover

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• General-American: /ˈplʌvɚ/
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• General-American: /ˈploʊvɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈplʌvə/
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• CMU ARPABET: P L AH1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Western Apache: tábąą dijágé — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Asturian: pollu — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Asturian: mazaricu — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Bulgarian: дъждосвирец (dǎždosvirec) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Catalan: corriol — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Chinese Mandarin: 千鳥 /千鸟 (qiānniǎo) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Chinese Mandarin: 鴴 /鸻 (héng) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Czech: kulík — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Dutch: plevier — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Esperanto: pluvio — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Faroese: lógv — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Finnish: kurmitsa — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• French: pluvier — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Galician: píldora — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Galician: píllara — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• German: Regenpfeifer — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Ancient Greek: χαραδριός (kharadriós) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Hebrew: חוֹפָמִי (ḥofamí) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Hungarian: lile — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Icelandic: lóa — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Indonesian: cerek — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Irish: feadóg — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Italian: caradrio — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Japanese: 千鳥 (chidori) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Korean: 물떼새 (multtesae) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Luxembourgish: Wakeleefer — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Middle English: plover — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Norman: êprivyi — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Norwegian Bokmål: lo — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lo — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Okinawan: 浜千鳥 (hamachiduri) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Old Norse: ló — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Old Norse: lóa — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Polish: siewka — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Portuguese: tarambola — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Portuguese: borrelho — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Romanian: ploier — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Romanian: fluierar — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Russian: зуёк (zujók) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Russian: ржа́нка (ržánka) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Scottish Gaelic: feadag — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Scottish Gaelic: trìlleachan — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Slovene: deževnik — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Spanish: chorlo — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Spanish: chorlito — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Spanish: chorlitejo — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Swahili: kiluwiluwi — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Telugu: ఉల్లంకి (ullaṅki) — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Turkish: yağmurcun — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Vietnamese: choi choi — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Volapük: garadriut — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Welsh: rhostog — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Welsh: cwtiad — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• Woiwurrung: perret-perret — wading bird of the family Charadriidae
• ǃXóõ: ǁn̥a̰ẽ — wading bird of the family Charadriidae