lark

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , from , from , (compare dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (borrowed into 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family.
 * 2) Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
 * 3)  One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
 * 4) A jolly or peppy person.
 * 1) A jolly or peppy person.
 * 1) A jolly or peppy person.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قُبَّرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: hegatxabal
 * Belarusian: жа́варанак
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lærke
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: lodule, odule
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: κορυδός, κόρυδος
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: fuiseog, circín starraiceach
 * Italian:, lodola
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 노고지리
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: چوڕە
 * Ladino: lodola
 * Latin: alauda
 * Latvian: cīrulis
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:, Lurk, Lörk, Lörke, Lerke; Lewark, , Levalk, Lewrik, Lewrink, , ,
 * Luxembourgish: Léierchen
 * Macedonian: чучулига
 * Maltese: alwett, bilbla
 * Maori: hīoi, pīhoihoi, whioi
 * Marathi: चंडोल
 * Northern Sami: leivvoš
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lerke
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: lāwerce
 * Old Norse: lævirki
 * Ottoman Turkish: طویغار, تارلا قوشی, چایر قوشی, قبر
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Leewoakj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: chirikli-gilibani, chiriklo-gilibano
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: lodola
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: allòdola
 * Scots: laverock
 * Scottish Gaelic: uiseag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шева, шевpљугa
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: škovránok
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: škobrjonk
 * Upper Sorbian: škowrončk
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: жа́йворонок
 * Vietnamese: chim chiền chiện
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ehedydd
 * West Frisian: ljurk


 * Bulgarian: ранобудник
 * Czech: ranní ptáče
 * Dutch: vroege vogel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian: persoană matinală
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To catch larks type of bird.

Etymology 2
, either
 * from a northern English dialectal term (around 1300, from ), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
 * a shortening of (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in.

Noun

 * 1) A frolic or romp, some fun.
 * 2) A prank.
 * 1) A prank.
 * 1) A prank.
 * 1) A prank.
 * 1) A prank.

Synonyms

 * , especially in phrase on a whim, see also Thesaurus:whim

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:, , blbiny, blbnutí
 * Dutch: gedol
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maori: tuapa
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: žertík
 * Dutch: vlerkenstreek
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Maori: hīanga
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To sport, engage in harmless pranking.
 * 2) To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
 * 1) To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.
 * 1) To frolic, engage in carefree adventure.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Bulgarian:, забавлявам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, toilailla


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: