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Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Ellipsis of wagtail platy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: oscine, oscine bird
From a partial suppletion of Middle English wagstert (literally “wag-tail”), equivalent to wag + tail.
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
ذُعْرَة
(ḏuʕra)
— various small passerine birds
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Arabic:
هَزَّاز الذَّنَب
(hazzāz aḏ-ḏanab)
— various small passerine birds
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Arabic:
أَبُو َالْفَصَاد
(ʔabū ālfaṣād)
— various small passerine birds
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Aromanian:
coadã-baturã
— various small passerine birds
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Aromanian:
cudubaturã
— various small passerine birds
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Aromanian:
cutrubatã
— various small passerine birds
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Asturian:
llavandera
— various small passerine birds
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Basque:
buztanikara
— various small passerine birds
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Belarusian:
сітаўка
(sitawka)
— various small passerine birds
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Belarusian:
пліска
(pliska)
— various small passerine birds
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Bulgarian:
стърчиопашка
(stǎrčiopaška)
— various small passerine birds
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Catalan:
cuereta
— various small passerine birds
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Chechen:
хӏуьрцӏалдиг
(hürcʼaldig)
— various small passerine birds
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Chichewa:
nthowitowi
— various small passerine birds
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Chinese Mandarin:
鶺鴒 /鹡鸰
(jílíng)
— various small passerine birds
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Chinese Mandarin:
雝渠 /雍渠
(yōngqú)
— various small passerine birds
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Czech:
konipas
— various small passerine birds
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Danish:
vipstjert
— various small passerine birds
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Dutch:
kwikstaart
— various small passerine birds
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Esperanto:
motacilo
— various small passerine birds
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Faroese:
erla
— various small passerine birds
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Finnish:
västäräkki
— various small passerine birds
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French:
hochequeue
— various small passerine birds
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French:
bergeronnette
— various small passerine birds
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Georgian:
ბოლოქანქარა
(bolokankara)
— various small passerine birds
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German:
Stelze
— various small passerine birds
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Gilaki:
دمبلاسکونی
(dumb-lās-kūney)
— various small passerine birds
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Greek:
σουσουράδα
(sousouráda)
— various small passerine birds
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Hebrew:
נַחְלִיאֵלִי
(naẖliéli)
— various small passerine birds
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Hindi:
खंजन
(khañjan)
— various small passerine birds
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Hungarian:
billegető
— various small passerine birds
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Ido:
motacilo
— various small passerine birds
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Irish:
glasóg
— various small passerine birds
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Italian:
cutrettola
— various small passerine birds
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Italian:
batticoda
— various small passerine birds
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Italian:
ballerina
— various small passerine birds
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Japanese:
鶺鴒
(sekirei)
— various small passerine birds
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Komi-Zyrian:
сырчик
(syrćik)
— various small passerine birds
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Korean:
할미새
(halmisae)
— various small passerine birds
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Korean:
아리새
(arisae)
— various small passerine birds
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Latgalian:
cīlova
— various small passerine birds
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Latin:
motacilla
— various small passerine birds
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Latvian:
cielava
— various small passerine birds
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Lithuanian:
kielė
— various small passerine birds
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Malagasy:
triotrio
— various small passerine birds
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Eastern Mari:
вырляҥге
(vyrĺaŋge)
— various small passerine birds
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Eastern Mari:
чывызык
(čyvyzyk)
— various small passerine birds
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Western Mari:
вӹрлӓнгӹ
(vÿrlängÿ)
— various small passerine birds
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Western Mari:
вӹтлӓнгӹ
(vÿtlängÿ)
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
craûlant-coue
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
craûlant-tchu
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
glianneux
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
gliaineux
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
labouotheux
— various small passerine birds
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Norman:
lavandgiéthe
— various small passerine birds
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
erle
— various small passerine birds
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Persian:
دمجنبانک
(dom-jonbânak)
— various small passerine birds
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Persian:
سوسلنگ
(sūseleng)
— various small passerine birds
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Polish:
pliszka
— various small passerine birds
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Portuguese:
alvéola
— various small passerine birds
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Portuguese:
alvéloa
— various small passerine birds
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Portuguese:
lavandisca
— various small passerine birds
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Portuguese:
lavandeira
— various small passerine birds
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Romanian:
codobatură
— various small passerine birds
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Romanian:
prundaș
— various small passerine birds
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Russian:
трясогу́зка
(trjasogúzka)
— various small passerine birds
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Serbo-Croatian:
pliska
— various small passerine birds
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Upper Sorbian:
pliška
— various small passerine birds
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Upper Sorbian:
spliška
— various small passerine birds
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Spanish:
lavandera
— various small passerine birds
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Swedish:
ärla
— various small passerine birds
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Tatar:
чәперчек
(çäperçek)
— various small passerine birds
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Turkish:
kuyruksallayan
— various small passerine birds
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Turkish:
yont kuşu
— various small passerine birds
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Ottoman Turkish:
یوند قوشی
(yund kuşu)
— various small passerine birds
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Ottoman Turkish:
قویروق صالایان
(kuyruk sallayan)
— various small passerine birds
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Ottoman Turkish:
قویروق صالان
(kuyruk sallan)
— various small passerine birds
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Udmurt:
чечег
(ćećeg)
— various small passerine birds
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Ukrainian:
пли́ска
(plýska)
— various small passerine birds
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Urdu:
مَدِیرا
(madīrā)
— various small passerine birds
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Vietnamese:
chìa vôi
— various small passerine birds
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Welsh:
siglen
— various small passerine birds
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Welsh:
tingsigl
— various small passerine birds
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Wolof:
coblet
— various small passerine birds
