English
Etymology
From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛɹən/
- Rhymes: -ɛɹən
Noun
heron (plural herons)
- Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
bird
- Afrikaans: reier
- Albanian: gatë (sq) f, çafkë (sq) f
- Apache:
- Western Apache: kʼos joolí (blue)
- Arabic: مَالِكُ الحَزِين m (māliku l-ḥazīn), بَلَشُون m (balašūn)
- Egyptian Arabic: بلشون m (balšōn)
- Aragonese: garra
- Armenian: տառեղ (hy) (taṙeġ)
- Assamese: বগলী (bogoli), বগ (bog), কণামুচৰি (konamusori)
- Asturian: garza (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: vağ
- Bashkir: селән (selən)
- Basque: lertxun, koartza
- Belarusian: ча́пля f (čáplja)
- Breton: kerc’heiz (br) f
- Bulgarian: ча́пла (bg) f (čápla)
- Catalan: agró m, bernat pescaire m
- Chamicuro: askoli
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蒼鷺 / 苍鹭 (zh) (cānglù), 鷺 / 鹭 (zh) (lù)
- Chuvash: чарлан (čarlan)
- Czech: volavka (cs) f
- Danish: hejre (da) c
- Dutch: reiger (nl) m
- Erzya: сенксь (senkś)
- Esperanto: ardeo (eo)
- Estonian: haigur
- Faroese: hegri (fo)
- Finnish: haikara (fi)
- French: héron (fr) m
- Friulian: airon m
- Galician: garza (gl) f, ghanza f
- Georgian: ყანჩა (q̇anča)
- German: Reiher (de) m
- Greek: ερωδιός (el) m (erodiós), αρδέα f (ardéa), τσικνιάς (el) m (tsikniás)
- Ancient: ἐρῳδιός m (erōidiós)
- Greenlandic: qeriiaq
- Gullah: pojo
- Hebrew: אֲנָפָה (he) f (anafá)
- Hindi: वगुला (vagulā), बगला (hi) m (baglā), बगुला (hi) m (bagulā), बक (hi) m (bak)
- Hungarian: gém (hu)
- Icelandic: hegri (is) m
- Ido: herono (io)
- Indonesian: kuntul (id), kowak (id), cangak (id)
- Interlingua: hairon
- Irish: corr f
- Old Irish: corr f
- Italian: airone (it) m
- Japanese: 鷺 (ja) (さぎ, sagi), サギ (ja) (sagi), 白鷺 (ja) (しらさぎ, shirasagi), シラサギ (ja) (shirasagi)
- Javanese: blekok (jv)
- Kaitag: гӏятӏнучӏ (ʿəṭnuč̣), архитӏла шве (arꭓiṭla šve)
- Kazakh: құтан (qūtan)
- Korean: 왜가리 (waegari), 해오라기 (ko) (hae'oragi), 백로(白鷺) (ko) (baengno)
- Kumyk: чыл (çıl)
- Ladin: airon
- Latgalian: ziurejs
- Latin: ardea (la) f, ardeola f
- Latvian: gārnis
- Lithuanian: garnys (lt)
- Low German: Reier, Reiger m
- Lutshootseed: sbəq'ʷaʔ
- Luxembourgish: Räer (lb) m
- Macedonian: сива чапја f (siva čapja), чапја f (čapja)
- Malay: pucung
- Malayalam: കൊക്ക് (ml) (kokkŭ), ബകം (ml) (bakaṁ)
- Maltese: russett
- Manx: coar ny hastan f
- Maori: heroni
- Marathi: बगळा (Baglhā)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: чарлаҥге (čarlaŋge)
- Western Mari: цӓрлӓнгӹ (cärlängÿ)
- Mazanderani: وکا (vekā)
- Mi'kmaq: tmgwatignej anim
- Minangkabau: bangau (min)
- Mingrelian: ჸანჩი (ʾanči)
- Nahuatl: aztatl
- Nanai: вачака (wačaka)
- Nivkh: вазӽ (vazẋ), вазаӽ (vazaẋ)
- Northern Sami: ránesháigir
- Norwegian: hegre, heire m
- O'odham: ṣu꞉dagĭ u’uwhig
- Occitan: bernat pescaire (oc) m, guiraut pescaire m
- Old Occitan: *aigreta
- Old English: hrāgra m
- Old French: hairon m heiron m
- Old High German: heigaro m, reigaro m
- Ottoman Turkish: بالقجیل (balıkcıl)
- Persian: حواصیل (fa) (havâsil), بوتیمار (fa) (butimâr), چگرنه (čegarne)
- Piedmontese: neiron
- Polish: czapla (pl) f
- Portuguese: garça (pt) f
- Quechua: wakchilla
- Romani: kokosturko m, kokosturka f
- Romanian: stârc (ro) m, bâtlan (ro) m
- Romansch: irun m
- Russian: ца́пля (ru) f (cáplja)
- Sanskrit: बक (sa) m (baka)
- Sardinian: perdigiorronadas, mengoni, menga, garza
- Scottish Gaelic: corra-ghritheach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чапља f
- Roman: čaplja (sh) f
- Shona: nyarupani
- Slovak: volavka
- Slovene: čaplja (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: šytawa f, rybarnik m
- Spanish: garza (es) f
- Sranan Tongo: sabaku
- Svan: ყა̈̄ნჯუ̂ (q̇ǟnǯû)
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Swedish: häger (sv)
- Tagalog: tagák, bakaw, garsa
- Telugu: నారాయణపక్షి (te) (nārāyaṇapakṣi)
- Tepecano: váko·n
- Thai: นกยาง (th) (nók yaang)
- Tofa: шилен
- Turkish: balıkçıl (tr)
- Ukrainian: ча́пля f (čáplja)
- Upper Sorbian: čapla
- Venetan: airon m
- Vietnamese: diệc (vi)
- Volapük: härod (vo)
- Welsh: crëyr m, crychydd m
- West Flemish: reiger
- West Frisian: reager c
- Wolof: warapuló mi
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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Further reading
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, *haigrō, from Frankish/Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, from earlier *hraigrô via dissimilation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛːˈruːn/, /ˈhɛːrun/, /ˈhɛːr(ə)n/, /hɛi̯-/, /hɛ-/
Noun
heron (plural herons)
- the grey heron (Ardea cinerea), or (rarely) a representation of it used in heraldry
- the meat of a heron used as food.
Descendants
References
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French heron, of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *hraigrō.
Noun
heron m (plural herons)
- heron
Descendants
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English heron. The pronunciation is a pseudo-Hispanism as shown by ultimate stress. Doublet of ayron.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /heˈɾon/ [hɛˈɾon̪]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: he‧ron
Noun
herón (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇᜓᜈ᜔)
- heron
- Synonyms: tagak, gabya, garsa
Further reading
- “heron”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018