osprey

English




Etymology
From Late, from , from , a generic term apparently confused with this specific bird in Old French on its similarity to ossifrage.

Noun

 * 1) A bird of prey  that feeds on fish and has white underparts and long, narrow wings each ending in four finger-like extensions.
 * 2) * 1594, (attributed), The Battle of Alcazar
 * I will provide thee of a princely osprey.

Synonyms

 * (a misnomer as the osprey is not an eagle, but compare some of the translations below)
 * (from Latin "bone-breaker")
 * (from Latin "bone-breaker")
 * (from Latin "bone-breaker")

Translations

 * Afrikaans: visarend, visvalk
 * Albanian: shqipe e zezë, shqiponjë peshkngrënëse, petrit peshkngrënës
 * Arabic: عُقَاب نَسْرِيّ
 * Bashkir: кәлмәргән
 * Basque: arrano arrantzale
 * Breton: erer-spluj
 * Bulgarian: орел рибар
 * Catalan: àguila pescadora
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cree: ᐊᐱᐢᑿᕀ
 * Czech: orlovec
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fiŝaglo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: fiskiørn
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: შაკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἁλιάετος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: elang tiram
 * Irish: coirneach, iascaire coirneach
 * Italian: falco pescatore, aquilastro
 * Japanese:
 * Klamath-Modoc: dokdokw'as
 * Komi-Zyrian: чери варыш, скӧпун
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: kirluons
 * Latin: ossifragus, haliaeetus
 * Latvian: zivjērglis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Fischaadler, Fischarend
 * Lutshootseed: c̓ixʷc̓ixʷ
 * Manx: shawk eeastee
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: сака
 * Western Mari: сексӹ
 * Navajo: táłkááʼ naalzheehí
 * Negidal: оломо̄н
 * Norman: orfinne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: fiskeørn
 * Nynorsk: fiskeørn
 * Old English: herefong
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: águia-pesqueira
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: fish hawk
 * Scottish Gaelic: iolair-uisge, iolair-iasgaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: орао рибар
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kršiak rybár, kršiak rybožravý, orliak riečny
 * Slovene: ribji orel
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rybjecy hodlaŕ
 * Spanish: águila pescadora, gavilán pescador,
 * Swahili: kipungu
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Tocharian B: kurār-lūwo
 * Turkish:
 * Udmurt: чорыгасьдушес
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: melakvil
 * Welsh: gwalch y pysgod