quail

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , from. .

Verb

 * 1)  To waste away; to fade, to wither.
 * 2)  To daunt or frighten (someone).
 * 3) * 1978,, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: , ISBN 978-0-571-11297-5 ; republished in , London: Faber, published 1992, ISBN 978-0-571-16328-1 , page 358:
 * To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
 * 1)  To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
 * 2)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
 * 2)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
 * 1)  Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, свивам се от страх
 * Czech: zaleknout se, ztratit odvahu, polekat se
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: შედრკომა, შეშინება, შერხევა, შეტოკება
 * Greek:
 * Irish: creathnaigh
 * Maori: tungehe, tārure
 * Polish: przestraszać się, przestraszyć się
 * Russian:, , , ,

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from.

So called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small game birds of the genera,  or  in the Old World family  or of the New World family.
 * 2)  The meat from this bird eaten as food.
 * 3)  A prostitute.
 * 1)  A prostitute.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: hashbidí
 * Arabic: سُمَّان, سَلْوَى
 * Egyptian Arabic: سمان
 * South Levantine Arabic: سمان
 * Armenian:
 * Ashkun: uvřë́
 * Assamese: বঁটা, বঁটা চৰাই
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: бытбылдыҡ, бүҙәнә
 * Basque: galeper
 * Belarusian: перапелка
 * Bengali: কোয়েল, বটেরা
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Burushaski:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: лекъ
 * Cherokee: ᎫᏇ
 * Chichewa: chinzirí
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: путене
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Early Assamese: বণ্টা
 * Eastern Cham: ꨥꩀ
 * Erzya: ёр
 * Esperanto: koturno
 * Estonian: vutt
 * Faroese: vaktil
 * Finnish:, amerikanviiriäinen
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: cuaie
 * Galician:, paspallar, codorna, cadorna, cantagrá, saltagrá, cogorniza, coalla
 * Georgian: მწყერი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄρτυξ
 * Hawaiian: kēlū
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: qualia
 * Irish: gearg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ヨーロッパウズラ,
 * Kabuverdianu: katurnis
 * Kalmyk: бөдн
 * Kamkata-viri: uřë́
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: pugu
 * Kazakh: бөдене
 * Khmer: សត្វក្រួច
 * Korean: 메추라기
 * Ladin: caia
 * Latin: coturnix
 * Latvian: paipala
 * Laz: ოტრიკე
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:
 * Macedonian: потполошка, препелица
 * Malay: puyuh
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: summiena
 * Maori: koreke, tāreke, koitāreke, whēwhī
 * Mingrelian: ჭყორი
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: díłdánii
 * Ngazidja Comorian: salwa
 * Northern Ohlone: sá̄kani
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham: kakaicu (specifically )
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: ersċhenn, edisċhenn
 * Ossetian: уӕрцц
 * Ottoman Turkish: بلدرجین
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polabian: pipaną
 * Polish:
 * Pontic Greek: ορτύκιν
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਬਟੇਰਾ
 * Romani: dropya
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: quacra, quaiglia
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: xrìcchibi, trepotès, cricchibì, guàgliulu, cualla
 * Scottish Gaelic: gearradh-gort
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: препелица
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: quagghia
 * Slovak: prepelica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: paśpula
 * Upper Sorbian: pocpula
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: შყა̈ჟუ̂, შყეჟუ̂
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pugo, kutipaw, tiktiko
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: hȕolóna
 * Tarifit: tazaršrešt
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: కౌజు పిట్ట
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: пе́репел
 * Uyghur: بودۇنە
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: cuaja
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: bukfuruk
 * Volapük: kotur
 * Waigali: ubë
 * Waray-Waray: pugo
 * Welsh: sofliar, soflieir
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong: ws, noog ws
 * Yucatec Maya: beech'
 * Zazaki: karek


 * Polish:

Etymology 3
From, , from , from. .

Verb

 * 1)  To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.