"secretary bird" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɛkɹəˌtɛɹɪ bɜːd/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: secretary birds [plural]
Etymology: Probably so named because its crest of long feathers resembles quill pens stuck behind the ears of an office clerk. Alternatively, possibly from Arabic صَقْر اَلطَّائِر (ṣaqr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “hunter bird”), from صَقْر (ṣaqr, “falcon, hawk”) طَائِر (ṭāʔir, “bird”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ar|صَقْر اَلطَّائِر||hunter bird}} Arabic صَقْر اَلطَّائِر (ṣaqr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “hunter bird”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} secretary bird (plural secretary birds)
  1. A large terrestrial bird of prey, Sagittarius serpentarius, native to Africa with very long legs that preys on reptiles, especially snakes. Categories (lifeform): Birds of prey Synonyms: secretarybird Translations (member of bird family): sekretarisvoël (Afrikaans), كَاتِب (kātib) [masculine] (Arabic), пти́ца-секрета́р (ptíca-sekretár) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 蛇鷲 /蛇鹫 (shéjiù) (Chinese Mandarin), 鷺鷹 /鹭鹰 (lùyīng) (Chinese Mandarin), 秘書鳥 /秘书鸟 (mìshūniǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), secretarisvogel [masculine] (Dutch), secretaris [masculine] (Dutch), sihteerilintu (Finnish), sihteeri (Finnish), messager sagittaire [masculine] (French), messager secrétaire [masculine] (French), messager serpentaire [masculine] (French), Sekretär [masculine] (German), kígyászkeselyű (Hungarian), rúnaí [masculine] (Irish), ヘビクイワシ (hebikuiwashi) (Japanese), 뱀잡이수리 (baemjabisuri) (Korean), screeudeyr [masculine] (Manx), giní jáádnézí (Navajo), secretário [masculine] (Portuguese), serpentário [masculine] (Portuguese), pasăre secretar [feminine] (Romanian), пти́ца-секрета́рь (ptíca-sekretárʹ) [feminine] (Russian), adhil (Southwestern Dinka), serpentario [masculine] (Spanish), ndege katibu (Swahili), sekreterarfågel [common-gender] (Swedish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.