vulture

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvʌltʃə/
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• General-American: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: V AH1 L CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur. Displaced native Old English ūf.

232 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aasvoël — bird
• Aja (East Africa): gùndú — bird
• Akan: opete — bird
• Albanian: coftinar — bird
• Albanian: shkabë — bird
• Albanian: gabonjë — bird
• Albanian: gjyp — bird
• Albanian: hutë — bird
• Amharic: ጥንብ አንሣ (ṭənb ʾänśa) — bird
• Western Apache: chʼishǫǫgi — bird
• Arabic: نَسْر (nasr) — bird
• Arabic: نسر (nesr) — bird
• Aragonese: vueitre — bird
• Armenian: անգղ (angġ) — bird
• Old Armenian: անգղ (angł) — bird
• Aromanian: vultur — bird
• Aromanian: ornji — bird
• Assamese: শগুন (xogun) — bird
• Asturian: utre — bird
• Asturian: utra — bird
• Asturian: butre — bird
• Avar: хъвек (qxwek) — bird
• Avar: чудук (čuduk) — bird
• Azerbaijani: leşyeyən — bird
• Azerbaijani: kərkəs — bird
• Balinese: garuda — bird
• Basque: sai — bird
• Basque: putre — bird
• Bats: სოვ (sov) — bird
• Belarusian: грыф (hryf) — bird
• Belarusian: сіп (sip) — bird
• Belarusian: белагало́вы сіп (bjelahalóvy sip) — bird
• Bengali: শকুন (śakuna) — bird
• Breton: gup — bird
• Breton: bultur — bird
• Bulgarian: лешояд (lešojad) — bird
• Burmese: လင်းတ (lang:ta.) — bird
• Burushaski: gaċhir — bird
• Burushaski: garmun — bird
• Catalan: voltor — bird
• Chamicuro: tsemo'ye — bird
• Chechen: аьрзу (ärzu) — bird
• Cherokee: ᏑᎵ (suli) — bird
• Chichewa: dembo — bird
• Chichewa: ngwangwa — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 兀鷹 /兀鹰 (wùyīng) — bird
• Chinese Mandarin: 鵰 /雕 (diāo) — bird
• Choctaw: sheki — bird
• Cornish: hok karyn — bird
• Czech: sup — bird
• Danish: grib — bird
• Dutch: gier — bird
• Egyptian: n:r:t-G38 (nrt) — bird
• Esperanto: vulturo — bird
• Estonian: kaeluskotkas — bird
• Faroese: gammur — bird
• Finnish: korppikotka — bird
• French: vautour — bird
• French: carencro (Cajun) — bird
• West-Frisian: gier — bird
• Friulian: astôr — bird
• Friulian: variűl — bird
• Galician: voitre — bird
• Galician: butre — bird
• Georgian: ორბი (orbi) — bird
• Georgian: სვავი (svavi) — bird
• Old Georgian: სოვი (sovi) — bird
• German: Geier — bird
• German: Geierin — bird
• German: Giir — bird
• Greek: γύπας (gýpas) — bird
• Ancient Greek: γύψ (gúps) — bird
• Ancient Greek: τόργος (tórgos) — bird
• Ancient Greek: αἰγυπιός (aigupiós) — bird
• Greenlandic: nattoraliusaq — bird
• Gujarati: ગીધ (gīdh) — bird
• Haitian Creole: karanklou — bird
• Haryanvi: गिरहज (girhaj) — bird
• Haryanvi: कर्गस (kargas) — bird
• Hausa: ungulu — bird
• Hawaiian: wulekula — bird
• Hebrew: נשר (nesher) — bird
• Hebrew: עוזנייה — bird
• Hebrew: עָזְנִיָּה ('ozniyá) — bird
• Hindi: गिद्ध (giddh) — bird
• Hungarian: keselyű — bird
• Icelandic: gammur — bird
• Icelandic: gæsagammur — bird
• Icelandic: hrægammur — bird
• Ido: vulturo — bird
• Indonesian: nazar — bird
• Indonesian: hering — bird
• Irish: badhbh — bird
• Irish: garrfhiach — bird
• Irish: amach — bird
• Irish: bultúr — bird
• Italian: avvoltoio — bird
• Japanese: 禿鷹 (hagetaka) — bird
• Japanese: 禿鷲 (hagewashi) — bird
• Javanese: manuk gagak — bird
• Kaitag: ччигъятӏ (ččiɣəṭ) — bird
• Kashmiri: گرَٛد — bird
• Kazakh: құмай (qūmai) — bird
• Kazakh: тазқара (tazqara) — bird
• Khmer: ត្មាត (tmaat) — bird
• Korean: 독수리 (doksuri) — bird
• Central Kurdish: ھەڵۆ (hello) — bird
• Ladin: valtoi — bird
• Lao: ນົກຍາງ (nogñāŋ) — bird
• Latin: vultur — bird
• Latvian: grifs — bird
• Latvian: maitu lija — bird
• Laz: მარსიღი (marsiği) — bird
• Lithuanian: grifas — bird
• Luxembourgish: Geier — bird
• Macedonian: мршојадец (mršojadec) — bird
• Malay: nasar — bird
• Malay: hering — bird
• Maltese: avultun — bird
• Manx: ushag chonvayrtagh — bird
• Maranao: banog — bird
• Maranao: garoda — bird
• Marathi: गिधाड (gidhāḍ) — bird
• Maroon Spirit Language: opete — bird
• Mingrelian: ფსივი (psivi) — bird
• Central Sierra Miwok: čý·šywitna- — bird
• Mon: တမာတ် (kəmat) — bird
• Mongolian: тас (tas) — bird
• Mongolian: элээ (elee) — bird
• Navajo: jeeshóóʼ — bird
• Norwegian: gribb — bird
• Occitan: voltor — bird
• Odia: ଶାଗୁଣା (śāguṇā) — bird
• Old English: ultor — bird
• Ossetian: хӕдмӕлхор (xædmælxor) — bird
• Pannonian Rusyn: суп (sup) — bird
• Persian: کرکس (karkas) — bird
• Persian: لاشخور (lâšxwar) — bird
• Polish: sęp — bird
• Portuguese: abutre — bird
• Portuguese: urubu — bird
• Portuguese: condor — bird
• Quechua: ullasku — bird
• Quechua: wiskul — bird
• Quechua: suwintu — bird
• Romanian: vultur — bird
• Romansh: tschess — bird
• Russian: гриф (grif) — bird
• Russian: стервя́тник (stervjátnik) — bird
• Northern Sami: goaskin — bird
• Sanskrit: आज (āja) — bird
• Sardinian: bentruxiu — bird
• Sardinian: untruxu — bird
• Sardinian: murru — bird
• Sardinian: bentruxu — bird
• Sardinian: venturzu — bird
• Sardinian: guntorzu — bird
• Sardinian: curturzu — bird
• Sardinian: guntruxu — bird
• Sardinian: intruxu — bird
• Sardinian: intulzu — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: fang — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: су̏п — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: лѐшина̄р — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: стр̀вина̄р — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: sȕp — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: lèšinār — bird
• Serbo-Croatian: str̀vinār — bird
• Shan: လၢင်းတႃႉ (láang tâ̰a) — bird
• Shan: ၼၢင်းတႃႉ (náang tâ̰a) — bird
• Sicilian: vuturu — bird
• Sicilian: avuturu — bird
• Sikkimese: རྒོད (rgod) — bird
• Slovak: sup — bird
• Slovene: mrhovinar — bird
• Slovene: jastreb — bird
• Lower Sorbian: sup — bird
• Upper Sorbian: sup — bird
• Southern Altai: улар (ular) — bird
• Spanish: buitre — bird
• Spanish: zopilote — bird
• Spanish: sopilote — bird
• Spanish: gallinazo — bird
• Spanish: samuro — bird
• Spanish: zamuro — bird
• Spanish: jote — bird
• Spanish: urubú — bird
• Spanish: cute — bird
• Old Spanish: boitre — bird
• Sranan Tongo: krepsi — bird
• Sranan Tongo: tingifowru — bird
• Sranan Tongo: opete — bird
• Svan: სუ̂აუ̂ (sûaû) — bird
• Swahili: tai — bird
• Swahili: gushu — bird
• Swahili: tumbusi — bird
• Swedish: gam — bird
• Tagalog: buwitre — bird
• Telugu: రాబందు (rābandu) — bird
• Thai: อีแร้ง (ee ráeng) — bird
• Thai: แร้ง (ráeng) — bird
• Tibetan: བྱ་རྒོད (bya rgod) — bird
• Tibetan: རྒོད (rgod) — bird
• Turkish: akbaba — bird
• Ottoman Turkish: آق بابا (ak baba) — bird
• Ukrainian: гриф (hryf) — bird
• Ukrainian: па́дальник (pádalʹnyk) — bird
• Urdu: گدھ (giddh) — bird
• Uzbek: jo'rchi — bird
• Uzbek: kalxat — bird
• Venetan: voltor — bird
• Venetan: avoltogio — bird
• Vietnamese: kền kền — bird
• Volapük: vultur — bird
• Volapük: lugil — bird
• Welsh: fwltur — bird
• Wolof: tan mi — bird
• Yiddish: גריף (grif) — bird
• Afrikaans: aasvoël — person
• Bulgarian: хищник (hištnik) — person
• Finnish: haaskalintu — person
• French: charognard — person
• French: vautour — person
• Georgian: სვავი (svavi) — person
• German: Aasgeier — person
• Hungarian: hiéna — person
• Ido: vulturo — person
• Persian: لاشخور (lāšxor) — person
• Polish: sęp — person
• Russian: стервя́тник (stervjátnik) — person
• Spanish: buitre — person
• Turkish: akbaba — person