purple sandpiper

English

Noun

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

1. A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
   • 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11:

     Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…

Translations

Calidris maritima

• Catalan: territ fosc m
• Dutch: paarse strandloper (nl) m
• Faroese: grágrælingur m, grælingur m
• Finnish: merisirri (fi)
• Greenlandic: sissarmiutaq
• Icelandic: sendlingur (is)
• Irish: gobadán cosbhuí m
• Lule Sami: fiervvatjoavtjoj
• Northern Sami: fierváviroš
• Norwegian: fjæreplytt
• Polish: biegus morski m
• Skolt Sami: reddviârvvaž
• Slovak: pobrežník morský
• Swedish: skärsnäppa (sv) c