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)

1. 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)