owl

Etymology
From, , from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), diminutive of  (compare 🇨🇬), of imitative origin or a variant of ,  (compare 🇨🇬 or , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.  A Germanic variant  was the source of Old High German ūwila (German Eule).

Noun

 * 1) Any of various birds of prey of the order  that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
 * 2)  A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
 * 3) An owl pigeon.
 * 4)  A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.
 * 5) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus, having large eyespots on the wings.
 * 1) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus, having large eyespots on the wings.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аты
 * Acehnese: jampôk
 * Adyghe: кукумау
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: チカㇷ゚
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Altai: мечиртке
 * Amharic: ጉጉት
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: múh
 * Arabic: بُومَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: بومة, قويق
 * Hijazi Arabic: بومة
 * North Levantine Arabic: بومة
 * Aragonese: bobón, baueso, craberet
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ফেঁচা
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese: kukulai
 * Bashkir: ябалаҡ
 * Basque: mozo,, gauhontz, hontza
 * Bau Bidayuh: buwo
 * Belarusian: сава́
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Bhojpuri: कुचकुचवा, उरुआ
 * Borôro: tagogo
 * Bouyei: rogyahheh, rogjaucmyaus
 * Breton: ,
 * Brunei Malay: burung antu
 * Bulgarian: птица от разред сови
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: бэгсэргэ
 * Carpathian Rusyn: совы
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: ngiwngiw, mingok
 * Central Bontoc: koop
 * Central Sierra Miwok: huh·umi-
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: ma'sheti
 * Chechen: бухӏа
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎫᎫ
 * Cheyenne: vé'kėséhemėstaa'e
 * Chickasaw: oopa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 貓頭鷹, 鴞, 鴟鴞
 * Eastern Min: 貓王鳥
 * Hakka: 貓頭鳥
 * Hokkien:, , , 鴣黃, 暗晏鳥, , 鷦鶹, , 公黃, 姑嫂鳥, 貓頭姑
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Chukchi: тыӄыԓ
 * Chuvash: тӑмана
 * Classical Syriac: ܒܘܡܐ
 * Comanche: mupitsʉ
 * Cornish: cowan, kowan
 * Corsican: ciocciu
 * Crimean Tatar: kökökmiyav, muratquş
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: civet
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: འུག་པ
 * Elfdalian: ugel
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, kakk
 * Evenki: itiknija
 * Faroese: ugla, ugli,  úla
 * Fijian: lulu
 * Finnish: ;
 * Franco-Provençal:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: çus
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბუ
 * German:, , Eulenvogel
 * Old High German: ūwila
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γλαῦξ
 * Greenlandic: uppik
 * Guaraní: ñakurutû, urukure'a, suinda
 * Gujarati:
 * Haitian Creole: koukou
 * Hausa: mujiya
 * Hawaiian: pueo
 * Hebrew:, , ,
 * Hiligaynon: búkaw
 * Hindi:, , , , , , , ,
 * Hopi: hotsko
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibanag: lappang
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: ikwikwi
 * Ilocano: kullaaw, puek
 * Indonesian:, , , , ,
 * Ingush: бов
 * Interlingua: uluco
 * Irish:, cailleach oíche
 * Italian: ,
 * Ivatan: bantuluk
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Carakan: ꦢꦫꦺꦱ꧀
 * Rumi:
 * Kalasha: uhúk
 * Kalmyk: һурвлһ
 * Kannada: ,
 * Karaim: sova
 * Kapampangan: kulayu
 * Kashubian: sowa
 * Kazakh: жапалақ
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kimaragang: puwok
 * Komi-Permyak: сюзь
 * Kongo: dikuti, kifungu
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: обуркъуш, обуръябалакъ
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کوند
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: ciuita
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: palāda, opūgs
 * Latin: būbō, noctua,, ulula , parra
 * Latvian: pūce, apogs, ūpis
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala: esulúngútu
 * Lithuanian: ; also (some species)
 * Livonian: būs
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: uul
 * German Low German:
 * Lun Bawang: fuek
 * Luxembourgish: ,
 * Macedonian: був, ут, утка
 * Malagasy: vorombozaka,
 * Malay:, burung suangi, pungguk
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: kokka
 * Manx: hullad
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: घुबड
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: тумна
 * Western Mari: тымана
 * Maricopa: mmdii
 * Mauritian Creole: ibou
 * Mazanderani: کوربی, پیت کتله
 * Mi'kmaq: gu'gu'gwes
 * Mirandese: queruja
 * Moksha: корож
 * Mongolian: шар шувуу,
 * Montagnais: uhu
 * Nanai: оксаран
 * Nanticoke: quoo-waant
 * Navajo: néʼéshjaaʼ
 * Nepali:, , ,
 * Norman: cahouain
 * Norn: jugla
 * Northern Sotho: leribiši
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ugle
 * Nynorsk: ugle
 * O'odham: cukut
 * Occitan: chòta
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: gookooko'oo
 * Old English: ūle
 * Old Norse: ugla
 * Old Occitan: cavec
 * Oromo: uruungguu
 * Ossetian: уыг, сидахъ
 * Pangasinan: kolayot
 * Pannonian Rusyn: сова
 * Pashto: کونګ
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Ul
 * Polabian: töľă
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, estrige
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: tuku, paqpaka, ch'usiqa, huku, juku
 * Rohingya: feñsa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tschuetta
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sakizaya: deku
 * Sami:
 * Inari Sami: skyelfi, oppuu
 * Northern Sami: skuolfi, idjaloddi
 * Skolt Sami: hõˊppi
 * Samoan: lulu
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Santali: ᱫᱩᱱᱫᱩ, ᱠᱚᱠᱚᱨ
 * Sardinian: tirulia, cuccumeu, cuccumiau
 * Saterland Frisian: Uule
 * Scots: yuggle
 * Scottish Gaelic: cailleach-oidhche, comhachag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сова, јеја, јејина, буљина
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sherpa: འུག་པ
 * Shona: zizi
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Silesian: uojle
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:, výr
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: sowa
 * Upper Sorbian: sowa
 * Southern Altai: ӱкӱ
 * Spanish:, , ,  , autillo ,  ,  , sijú cotunto ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠚꠦꠌꠣ, ꠙꠦꠌꠣ
 * Tagal Murut: puvok
 * Tagalog: kuwago
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil: ,
 * Taos: kǫ̏wéna
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འུག་པ།
 * Tigrinya: ጉንጓ
 * Tocharian B: uluke
 * Tok Pisin: pugu
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: межерген
 * Udi: гуъгеъл
 * Ukrainian:, сич
 * Urdu: الو
 * Uyghur: مۈشۈك ياپىلاق, ھۇۋقۇش
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Veps: hir'pulo
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: aojł
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: bukaw
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Coast Bajau: puok
 * West Frisian: ûle
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: мэкчиргэ
 * Yámana: sírra
 * Yiddish: סאָווע
 * Yoruba: òwìwí
 * Zazaki:
 * Zealandic: ulen
 * Zhuang: roeggyaeujmeuz
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1)  To smuggle contraband goods.