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English
Pronunciation
Noun
bird of prey (plural birds of prey)
- A carnivorous bird that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on land vertebrates.
Synonyms
Translations
carnivorous bird
- Afrikaans: roofvoël (af)
- Arabic: طَيْر جَارِح (ṭayr jāriḥ)
- Armenian: գիշատիչ թռչուն (gišatičʻ tʻṙčʻun)
- Asturian: ave de presa (ast)
- Bashkir: йыртҡыс ҡош (yırtqıs qoş)
- Basque: hegazti harrapari
- Belarusian: драпежная птушка f (drapježnaja ptuška)
- Bikol Central: wikwik
- Bulgarian: граблива птица f (grabliva ptica)
- Catalan: rapinyaire, ocell rapaç, ocell de rapinya
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 猛禽 (zh) (měngqín), 鷙 / 鸷 (zh) (zhì)
- Chuvash: çăткăн кайăк (çătkăn k̬ajăk)
- Czech: dravý pták
- Danish: rovfugl (da)
- Dutch: roofvogel (nl)
- Esperanto: rabobirdo
- Faroese: ránfuglur m
- Finnish: petolintu (fi)
- French: oiseau de proie (fr) m, rapace (fr) m
- Old French: oisel de proie m
- Galician: ave de rapina (gl) f
- German: Raubvogel (de)
- Greek: αρπακτικό πτηνό n (arpaktikó ptinó)
- Ancient: οἰωνός m (oiōnós)
- Hebrew: עוֹף דּוֹרֵס m
- Hungarian: ragadozó madár (hu)
- Icelandic: ránfugl (is) m
- Interlingua: ave de preda
- Italian: rapace (it) m
- Japanese: 猛禽 (ja), もうきん (mōkin)
- Kumyk: йыртгъыч къуш (yırtğıç quş)
- Latvian: plēsējputns m
- Luxembourgish: Gräifvull m
- Macedonian: птица-грабливка f (ptica-grablivka), граблива птица f (grabliva ptica), грабливец m (grablivec)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: махчин шувуу (maxčin šuvuu)
- Ottoman Turkish: طاوشانجیل (tavşancıl)
- Persian: اشکره (fa) (eškare)
- Polish: ptak drapieżny m
- Portuguese: ave de rapina (pt) f
- Quechua: aqchi, anka (qu) (Cuzco)
- Romanian: pasăre de pradă (ro) f
- Russian: хи́щная пти́ца f (xíščnaja ptíca)
- Scottish Gaelic: eun-creiche m
- Serbo-Croatian: птица грабљивица f, ptica grabljivica f
- Slovak: dravý vták m
- Slovene: ptica roparica f
- Spanish: ave rapaz (es) f, ave de rapiña (es) f, ave rapiega (es) f, ave de presa
- Swedish: rovfågel (sv) c
- Tagalog: limbas
- Tatar: ерткыч кош (yertkıç qoş)
- Thai: นกล่าเหยื่อ
- Turkish: alıcı kuş (tr), avcı kuş (tr), gündüz yırtıcı kuş
- Uyghur: يىرتقۇچ قۇش (yirtquch qush)
- Vietnamese: chim săn mồi (vi)
- Welsh: aderyn ysglyfaethus (cy)
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