bee-eater

English

bee-eater
Merops apiaster

Etymology

From the diet of these birds, which consists of flying insects, especially bees and wasps.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbiː iːtəɹ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

bee-eater (plural bee-eaters)

Any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, especially the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bee,‎ eater.

Translations

bird in the family Meropidae

Albanian: zog blete
Arabic: وَرْوَار m (warwār)
Armenian: մեղվակեր (hy) (meġvaker)
Catalan: abellerol (ca) m
Chechen: жӏалин-къоьрг (žˀalin-qʼörg)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食蜂鳥／食蜂鸟 (shífēngniǎo), 蜂虎科 (fēnghǔ-kē) (family)
Czech: vlha (cs) f
Danish: biæder c
Dutch: bijeneter (nl) m
Esperanto: abelmanĝulo (eo), meropo
Fala: abejarucu m
Finnish: mehiläissyöjä (fi)
French: guêpier (fr) m
Galician: meixengra, abellaruco (gl)
German: Bienenfresser (de) m
Greek: μελισσοφάγος (el) m (melissofágos)
Ancient: μέροψ m (mérops)
Hungarian: gyurgyalag (hu), piripió, méhészmadár (hu)
Irish: beachadóir m
Italian: gruccione (it) m, vespiere m
Japanese: ハチクイ (hachikui), ハチクイ科 (hachikui-ka) (family)
Korean: 벌잡이새 (beoljabisae)
Latin: merops m
Maltese: qerd in-naħal m
Navajo: tsísʼná yiyání
Ottoman Turkish: آری قوشی (arı kuşu)
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: żołna (pl) f
Portuguese: abelharuco (pt) m, mejengra (pt) f
Romanian: viespar (ro), albinărel (ro) m, prigoare (ro) f, prigorie (ro) f
Russian: щу́рка (ru) f (ščúrka)
Scottish Gaelic: beachadair m
Spanish: abejaruco (es) m
Swedish: biätare (sv) c
Tagalog: manunubing, parikparik
Telugu: పచ్చరెక్క (paccarekka)
Turkish: arı kuşu (tr)
Vietnamese: trảu (vi)
Walloon: wespî (wa) m

References

bee-eater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meropidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Meropidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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