white stork

English

A flying white stork.

Etymology

From white and stork.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /waɪt stɔɹk/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /waɪt stɔːk/
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Noun

white stork (plural white storks)

A large wading bird, of species Ciconia ciconia, that winters in Africa and breeds in Europe; in European folklore, it delivers babies.

Translations

large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia

Albanian: lejleku i bardhë m
Asturian: cigüeña (ast), cigüeña cande (ast)
Chechen: чӏерийдохург (čʼeriı̇doxurg)
Chichewa: chiswankhono
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白鸛／白鹳 (zh) (báiguàn)
Danish: hvid stork c
Dutch: ooievaar (nl) m
Esperanto: blanka cikonio
Faroese: storkur (fo) m
Finnish: kattohaikara (fi)
French: cigogne blanche (fr)
German: Weißstorch (de) m
Greek: λευκοπελαργός (el) m (lefkopelargós)
Hungarian: fehér gólya (hu)
Icelandic: hvítstorkur (is) m
Japanese: 朱嘴鸛 (ja) (shubashikō)
Kashubian: biôłi bòcón
Kazakh: ақ дегелек (aq degelek)
Latin: ciconia
Maltese: ċikonja bajda f
Navajo: tsídiidaanézí łigaaígíí
Polish: bocian biały (pl) m
Portuguese: cegonha-branca f
Romanian: barză-albă (ro) f
Russian: бе́лый а́ист m (bélyj áist)
Spanish: cigüeña blanca f
Swedish: vit stork (sv) c
Tyap: a̱ba̱lee (kcg)
Ukrainian: леле́ка бі́лий (leléka bílyj)

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