English Explanatory Dictionary

starling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
  2. The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
  3. A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
noun
  1. An enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together before any structure or work, as a protection against the wash of waves, commonly used to protect the piers of a bridge.
  2. One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
name
  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname from a nickname for a gregarious person.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈstɑːlɪŋ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-starling.wav stär′lĭng /ˈstɑɹlɪŋ/

Word forms

starling starlings sterling

Etymology

From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).

Synonyms

European starling stare boregat bodieron

Related words

Sterling Stirling

Derived words

starlinglike

Translations

Afrikaans: spreeu Albanian: shturë Albanian: gargull Arabic: زُرْزُور Arabic: زرزور Armenian: սարյակ Asturian: estornín Bashkir: сыйырсыҡ Basque: arabazozo Belarusian: шпак Bengali: শালিক Breton: tred Bulgarian: скоре́ц Catalan: estornell Chechen: алкханч Chinese Mandarin: 椋鳥 /椋鸟 Cornish: troos Crimean Tatar: sıyırcıq Czech: špaček Danish: stær Dutch: spreeuw Esperanto: sturno Estonian: kuldnokk Estonian: künnirästas Faroese: stari Finnish: kottarainen French: étourneau West-Frisian: protter Friulian: sturnel Galician: estorniño Georgian: შოშია German: Star Greek: ψαρόνι Ancient Greek: ψάρ Hebrew: זַרְזִיר Hungarian: seregély Icelandic: stari Indonesian: jalak Irish: druid Italian: storno Japanese: 椋鳥 Javanese: jalak Northern Kurdish: alik Northern Kurdish: reşêlek Northern Kurdish: zerzûr
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