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Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: oscine, oscine bird
Narrower terms: butcherbird, loggerhead shrike, Lanius lucovicianus, migrant shrike, Lanius ludovicianus migrans, bush shrike
From Middle English *schrike, *schryke, from Old English sċrīc (“shrike, thrush”), from the same root as shriek and screech, named after the bird's cry. Compare Icelandic skríkja (“shrieker, shrike”), Swedish skrika (“jay”).
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Assamese:
বাঘ চৰাই
(bagh sorai)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Assamese:
এৰাখাতী
(erakhati)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Asturian:
picanzu
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Basque:
antzandobi
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Breton:
pig-spern
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Bulgarian:
сврака
(svraka)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Carpathian Rusyn:
сорокопуд
(sorokopud)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Catalan:
capsigrany
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Catalan:
capsot
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Catalan:
botxí
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Catalan:
escorxador
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Catalan:
trenca
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Literary Chinese:
鴃
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Chinese Mandarin:
伯劳
(bóláo)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Czech:
ťuhýk
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Danish:
tornskade
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Dutch:
klauwier
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Dutch:
klapekster
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Esperanto:
lanio
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Estonian:
õgija
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Faroese:
tyrningur
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Finnish:
lepinkäinen
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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French:
pie-grièche
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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North Frisian:
wirger
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Galician:
picanzo
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Georgian:
ღაჟო
(ɣažo)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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German:
Würger
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Hungarian:
gébics
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Hungarian:
gábos
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Irish:
sríoc
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Irish:
scréachán
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Italian:
averla
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Japanese:
モズ
(mozu)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Kazakh:
тағанақ
(tağanaq)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Korean:
때까치
(ttaekkachi)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Kumyk:
къаргъанат
(qarğanat)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Northern Kurdish:
kêzxwer
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Northern Kurdish:
kêzxur
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Northern Kurdish:
kêzxwar
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Northern Kurdish:
kîrkok
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Kyrgyz:
борбаштар
(borbaştar)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Latvian:
čakste
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Lithuanian:
medšarkė
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Malay:
tirjup
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Navajo:
zahalániitsoh
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Norwegian:
varsler
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Persian:
ورکاک
(varkâk)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Persian:
ستوجه
(setuje)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Picard:
agache-écreuhèle
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Polish:
dzierzba
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Polish:
srokosz
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Portuguese:
picanço
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Punjabi:
ਲਟੋਰਾ
(laṭorā)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Romanian:
sfrâncioc
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Russian:
сорокопу́т
(sorokopút)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Northern Sami:
skirrit
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Sanskrit:
फिङ्गक
(phiṅgaka)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Scots:
shrike
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Serbo-Croatian:
svračak
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Slovene:
srakoper
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Spanish:
alcaudón
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Spanish:
verdugo
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Swahili:
mbwigu
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Swedish:
törnskata
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Turkish:
örümcek kuşu
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Ottoman Turkish:
اورمجك قوشی
(örümcek kuşu)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Ukrainian:
сорокопуд
(sorokopud)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Uzbek:
qarqunoq
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Vietnamese:
bách thanh
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Welsh:
cigydd
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
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Yakut:
кэргэннэрэ
(kergennere)
— Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae
