skylark

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• UK: /ˈskaɪlɑːk/
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• US: /ˈskaɪlɑɹk/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -aɪlɑː(ɹ)k
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• CMU ARPABET: S K AY1 L AA2 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.

90 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: çerdhukël — small brown passerine bird
• Albanian: laureshë e madhe — small brown passerine bird
• Albanian: laureshë — small brown passerine bird
• Albanian: larushe — small brown passerine bird
• Southern Altai: бос торкой (bos torkoy) — small brown passerine bird
• Arabic: قُبَّرَة (qubbara) — small brown passerine bird
• Asturian: calandra — small brown passerine bird
• Azerbaijani: torağay — small brown passerine bird
• Belarusian: жа́варанак (žávaranak) — small brown passerine bird
• Breton: alc'hweder sant Pęr — small brown passerine bird
• Bulgarian: чучули́га (čučulíga) — small brown passerine bird
• Catalan: alosa — small brown passerine bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 雲雀 /云雀 (yúnquè) — small brown passerine bird
• Czech: skřivan polní — small brown passerine bird
• Danish: sanglærke — small brown passerine bird
• Dutch: veldleeuwerik — small brown passerine bird
• Esperanto: alaŭdo — small brown passerine bird
• Estonian: pőldlőoke — small brown passerine bird
• Finnish: kiuru — small brown passerine bird
• Finnish: leivo — small brown passerine bird
• Finnish: leivonen — small brown passerine bird
• French: alouette des champs — small brown passerine bird
• West-Frisian: ljurk — small brown passerine bird
• Friulian: lodule — small brown passerine bird
• Friulian: odule — small brown passerine bird
• Galician: laverca — small brown passerine bird
• Gallurese: calandru — small brown passerine bird
• Georgian: ტოროლა (ṭorola) — small brown passerine bird
• German: Feldlerche — small brown passerine bird
• Hungarian: mezei pacsirta — small brown passerine bird
• Hungarian: süsétek — small brown passerine bird
• Icelandic: sönglævirki — small brown passerine bird
• Irish: fuiseog — small brown passerine bird
• Irish: circín starraiceach — small brown passerine bird
• Italian: allodola — small brown passerine bird
• Italian: alauda — small brown passerine bird
• Japanese: 雲雀 (hibari) — small brown passerine bird
• Kalmyk: торһа (torğa) — small brown passerine bird
• Kannada: ಬಾನಾಡಿ (bānāḍi) — small brown passerine bird
• Korean: 종다리 (jongdari) — small brown passerine bird
• Korean: 노고지리 (nogojiri) — small brown passerine bird
• Kumyk: торгъай (torğay) — small brown passerine bird
• Ladin: lodola — small brown passerine bird
• Latin: alauda — small brown passerine bird
• Latvian: lauku cīrulis — small brown passerine bird
• Lithuanian: vieversys — small brown passerine bird
• Macedonian: чучулига (čučuliga) — small brown passerine bird
• Maltese: alwett — small brown passerine bird
• Māori: kairaka — small brown passerine bird
• Norman: alouaette — small brown passerine bird
• Norman: alout'raesse — small brown passerine bird
• Norman: alouette — small brown passerine bird
• Occitan: alauseta — small brown passerine bird
• Polish: skowronek polny — small brown passerine bird
• Portuguese: cotovia — small brown passerine bird
• Portuguese: laverca — small brown passerine bird
• Portuguese: calandra — small brown passerine bird
• Portuguese: calhandra — small brown passerine bird
• Romani: chiriklo-gilibano — small brown passerine bird
• Romani: chirikli-gilibani — small brown passerine bird
• Romanian: ciocârlie — small brown passerine bird
• Romansh: lodola — small brown passerine bird
• Russian: жа́воронок (žávoronok) — small brown passerine bird
• Sami: leivvoš — small brown passerine bird
• Lule-Sami: vitsur — small brown passerine bird
• Lule-Sami: gieddeurjjá — small brown passerine bird
• Northern Sami: leivvoš — small brown passerine bird
• Sardinian: allòdola — small brown passerine bird
• Campidanese Sardinian: calandiri — small brown passerine bird
• Campidanese Sardinian: calandironi — small brown passerine bird
• Sardinian: prantaritta — small brown passerine bird
• Sassarese: accuccadìta — small brown passerine bird
• Scots: laverock — small brown passerine bird
• Scottish Gaelic: uiseag — small brown passerine bird
• Scottish Gaelic: topag — small brown passerine bird
• Serbo-Croatian: пољска шева — small brown passerine bird
• Serbo-Croatian: poljska ševa — small brown passerine bird
• Slovak: škovránok — small brown passerine bird
• Slovene: poljski škrjanec — small brown passerine bird
• Upper Sorbian: škowrončk — small brown passerine bird
• Spanish: alondra común — small brown passerine bird
• Swedish: sånglärka — small brown passerine bird
• Tamil: வானம்பாடி (vāṉampāṭi) — small brown passerine bird
• Turkish: tarla kuşu — small brown passerine bird
• Ukrainian: жа́йворонок (žájvoronok) — small brown passerine bird
• Venetan: lòdoła — small brown passerine bird
• Vietnamese: chiền chiện — small brown passerine bird
• Vilamovian: liychła — small brown passerine bird
• Volapük: felalaud — small brown passerine bird
• Welsh: ehedydd — small brown passerine bird