barn owl

English

a barn owl.

Etymology

From barn +‎ owl.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːn ˌaʊl/, /ˈbɑɹn ˌaʊəl/
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Noun

barn owl (plural barn owls)

An owl of the species Tyto alba, often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings.
Synonym: disc owl

Hyponyms

(Tyto alba): eastern barn owl (Tyto alba delicatula), western barn owl (Tyto alba alba), American barn owl (Tyto alba furcata)

Coordinate terms

(owl living in farm buildings): flammulated owl, great horned owl, greater sooty owl, tawny owl

Translations

Tyto alba

Albanian: kukuvajka mjekroshe
Asturian: curuxa (ast), curuxa real (ast), rillu (ast), paxarón del aceite (ast)
Basque: hontz zuri
Belarusian: сіпуха звычайная f (sipuxa zvyčajnaja)
Breton: grell voutin
Bulgarian: забулена сова f (zabulena sova)
Burmese: လင်ကောင်ပိုး (langkaungpui:), ငှက်ဆိုး (my) (hngakhcui:)
Catalan: òliba (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 倉鴞／仓鸮 (cāngxiāo)
Czech: sova pálená f
Danish: slørugle (da)
Dutch: kerkuil (nl) m
Esperanto: turstrigo
Estonian: loorkakk
Faroese: hjartaugla
Finnish: tornipöllö (fi)
French: chouette effraie (fr) f
Friulian: barbezuan
Galician: curuxa común, curuxa (gl) f
German: Schleiereule (de) f
Greek: πεπλόγλαυκα (el) f (peplóglafka)
Ancient: τυτώ f (tutṓ)
Hebrew: תנשמת (he) f (tinshemet)
Hungarian: gyöngybagoly (hu)
Icelandic: turnugla
Indonesian: serak jawa
Irish: scréachóg reilige f
Italian: barbagianni (it)
Japanese: 面梟 (ja) (めんふくろう, menfukurō), メンフクロウ (ja) (menfukurō)
Korean: 가면올빼미 (gamyeonolppaemi)
Latin: parra
Latvian: plīvurpūce
Lithuanian: liepsnotoji pelėda
Lower Sorbian: wokata sowa f, pisana sowa f
Macedonian: дамчест був m (damčest buv)
Malay: pungguk jelapang
Maltese: barbaġann
Manx: hullad soailt f, hullad vane f, caillagh oie f
Nahuatl: chicuahtli
Navajo: biniiʼłigaii
Norman: blianc cahouain
Norwegian: tårnugle
Occitan: dama blanca, caús (oc)
Polish: płomykówka (pl)
Portuguese: coruja-das-torres (pt) f
Romanian: strigă (ro)
Romansch: tschuetta velada
Russian: сипу́ха обыкнове́нная f (sipúxa obyknovénnaja)
Sami: toardnaskuolfi
Sardinian: cuccufiu, stria bianca, istria bianca
Scottish Gaelic: cailleach-oidhche f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кукувиjа f

Roman: kukuvija (sh) f, kukuvija drijemavica (sh)
Slovak: plamienka driemavá f
Slovene: pegasta sova f
Spanish: lechuza (es) f, lechuza común f
Swahili: bundi (sw)
Swedish: tornuggla (sv)
Thai: นกแสก (th) (nók-sɛ̀ɛk)
Tiwi: pinjoma, pinjomwa
Turkish: peçeli baykuş (tr)
Ukrainian: сипуха f (sypuxa)
Upper Sorbian: wokata sowa f, pisana sowa f
Vietnamese: cú lợn
Welsh: tylluan wen
West Frisian: goudûle
Yucatec Maya: xoochʼ

References

barn owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tyto alba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tyto alba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

Walborn

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