bustard

English

kori bustard, Ardeotis kori

Etymology

From Middle English bustarde, from an Anglo-Norman blend of Old French bistarde and oustarde, both from Latin avis tarda (“slow bird”), which is a misnomer as bustards are fast runners.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌs.təd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌs.tɚd/

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• Hyphenation: bus‧tard

Noun

bustard (plural bustards)

1. Any of several large terrestrial birds of the family Otididae that inhabit dry open country and steppes in the Old World.
2. (euphemistic, slang) bastard

   That bustard tried to conquer the world!

Derived terms

• Arabian bustard, Ardeotis arabs
• Australian bustard, Ardeotis australis
• black-bellied bustard, Lissotis melanogaster
• buff-crested bustard, Lophotis gindiana
• bustard quail
• Denham's bustard, Neotis denhami
• great bustard, Otis tarda
• great Indian bustard, Ardeotis nigriceps
• Hartlaub's bustard, Lissotis hartlaubii
• Heuglin's bustard, Neotis heuglinii
• houbara bustard, Chlamydotis undulata
• kori bustard, Ardeotis kori
• little brown bustard, Eupodotis humilis
• little bustard, Tetrax tetrax
• Ludwig's bustard, Neotis ludwigii
• Macqueen's bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii
• Nubian bustard, Neotis nuba
• Savile's bustard, Lophotis savilei
• white-bellied bustard, Eupodotis senegalensis

 

Translations

any of several birds of the family Otididae

• Afrikaans: wildepou
• Arabic: حُبَارَى f (ḥubārā)
• Armenian: արոս (hy) (aros)
• Basque: basoilo
• Bulgarian: дропла (bg) (dropla)
• Catalan: avitarda f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鴇／鸨 (bou²)

  Mandarin: 鴇／鸨 (zh) (bǎo)

• Czech: drop (cs) m anim
• Danish: trappe (da) c
• Dutch: trap (nl)
• Erzya: дудак (dudak)
• Finnish: trappi (fi)
• French: outarde (fr) f
• German: Trappe (de) f
• Greek: ωτίδα f (otída)

  Ancient: ὠτίς f (ōtís)

• Hindi: सोहन (hi) m (sohan), तिल्लर (hi) m (tillar), होबार (hi) m (hobār)
• Hungarian: túzok (hu)
• Ingrian: drofa
• Irish: bustard m
• Italian: otarda (it) f
• Japanese: 野雁 (nogan)
• Khakas: тодах (todax)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چێرگ (çêrg)

  Northern Kurdish: çirg (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: тоодак (ky) (toodak)
• Latvian: sīga
• Lithuanian: einis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Trapp f
• Maltese: pitarrun m
• Manchu: ᡥᡠᠮᡠᡩᡠ (humudu), ᡴᠠᠨᠵᡳᡩᡠ (kanjidu)
• Polish: drop (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: abetarda f
• Romanian: dropie (ro) f
• Russian: дрофа́ (ru) f (drofá)
• Slovak: drop m
• Spanish: avutarda (es) f
• Swahili: tandawala
• Swedish: trapp (sv) c
• Turkmen: togdary, toklutaý
• Welsh: gwerniar f

Further reading

• Otididae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Otididae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• basturd

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bustard, from Old French bistarde.

Noun

bustard m (genitive singular bustaird, nominative plural bustaird)

1. bustard

Declension

Declension of bustard

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative bustard bustaird Vocative a bhustaird a bhustarda Genitive bustaird bustard Dative bustard bustaird

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bustard na bustaird Genitive an bhustaird na mbustard Dative leis an mbustard don bhustard leis na bustaird

Derived terms

• ar bustard (“in the lurch”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bustard	bhustard	mbustard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bustard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN