arctic tern

English

An arctic tern.

Alternative forms

Arctic tern

Noun

arctic tern (plural arctic terns)

A migratory bird that travels between the Arctic and Antarctic, Sterna paradisaea.

Translations

Sterna paradisaea

Catalan: xatrac àrtic m
Dutch: noordse stern (nl)
Faroese: terna (fo) f
Finnish: lapintiira (fi)
French: sterne arctique (fr) f
German: Küstenseeschwalbe f
Greenlandic: imeqqutaalaq
Hawaiian: ʻimikukailaka
Inupiaq: mitqutaiḷaq
Irish: geabhróg Artach f
Manx: gant ny gibbinyn m
Navajo: hakʼaz tónteel táshchozhii
Portuguese: andorinha do Ártico f, andorinha ártica f
Russian: поля́рная кра́чка f (poljárnaja kráčka)
Sami:
Akkala Sami: tjerre

Inari Sami: čerrih

Kildin Sami: це̄рехь (cier’ex’)

Lule Sami: tjierrek

Northern Sami: čearret

Skolt Sami: ce´rriǩ
Spanish: charrán ártico m, gaviotín ártico m
Swedish: silvertärna (sv) c
Ukrainian: крячо́к поля́рний m (krjačók poljárnyj, literally “polar tern”)

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