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red-throated diver

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Any of species Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.

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History

Etymology

From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: nori gushëkuq — Gavia stellata
  • Catalan: agullat petit — Gavia stellata
  • Catalan: cabussó petit — Gavia stellata
  • Catalan: calàbria petita — Gavia stellata
  • Czech: potáplice malá — Gavia stellata
  • Danish: rødstrubet lom — Gavia stellata
  • Dutch: roodkeelduiker — Gavia stellata
  • Faroese: lómur — Gavia stellata
  • Finnish: kaakkuri — Gavia stellata
  • French: plongeon catmarin — Gavia stellata
  • German: Sterntaucher — Gavia stellata
  • Greek: κηλιδοβούτι (kilidovoúti) — Gavia stellata
  • Greenlandic: qarsaaq — Gavia stellata
  • Hungarian: északi búvár — Gavia stellata
  • Icelandic: lómur — Gavia stellata
  • Italian: strolaga minore — Gavia stellata
  • Japanese: 阿比 (abi) — Gavia stellata
  • Latvian: brūnkakla gārgale — Gavia stellata
  • Lower Tanana: toch'otreya — Gavia stellata
  • Maltese: bugħaddas — Gavia stellata
  • Norman: cadras — Gavia stellata
  • Norwegian: smålom — Gavia stellata
  • Romanian: cufundar mic — Gavia stellata
  • Russian: краснозо́бая гага́ра (krasnozóbaja gagára) — Gavia stellata
  • Inari-Sami: kähtee — Gavia stellata
  • Inari-Sami: kakkârâs — Gavia stellata
  • Lule-Sami: gurtte — Gavia stellata
  • Northern Sami: gáhkkor — Gavia stellata
  • Skolt-Sami: kaaʹǩǩi — Gavia stellata
  • Southern Sami: gurhtie — Gavia stellata
  • Slovak: potáplica malá — Gavia stellata
  • Spanish: colimbo chico — Gavia stellata
  • Swedish: smålom — Gavia stellata
  • Welsh: trochydd gyddfgoch — Gavia stellata