wagtail

English

White wagtail (Motacilla alba)

Etymology

From a partial suppletion of Middle English wagstert (literally “wag-tail”), equivalent to wag +‎ tail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

wagtail (plural wagtails)

1. Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
2. (zoology) Ellipsis of wagtail platy.

Hyponyms

• African wagtail, African pied wagtail (Motacilla aguimp)
• Cape wagtail (Motacilla capensis)
• citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola)
• field wagtail (Motacilla flava and M. tschutschensis, syn. Budytes spp.)
• forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus)
• garden wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus, syn. Nemoricola indica)
• grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
• Japanese wagtail (Motacilla grandis)
• Madagascar wagtail, Madagascan wagtail (Motacilla flaviventris)
• Mekong wagtail (Motacilla samveasnae)
• mountain wagtail (Motacilla clara)
• pied wagtail (Motacilla alba yarrellii)
• wagtail flycatcher (Motacilla alba yarrellii)
• water wagtail (Motacilla alba yarrellii)
• white-browed wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis
• white wagtail (Motacilla alba alba)
• willie wagtail, willy wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
• winter wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
• wood wagtail (Motacilla cinerea, syn. Calobates sulphurea)
• yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava and M. tschutschensis)

Derived terms

• wagtail-tyrant

Translations

various small passerine birds

• Arabic: ذُعْرَة f (ḏuʕra), هَزَّاز الذَّنَب m (hazzāz aḏ-ḏanab), أَبُو َالْفَصَاد m (ʔabū ālfaṣād)
• Aromanian: coadã-baturã f, cudubaturã f, cutrubatã f
• Asturian: llavandera (ast) f
• Basque: buztanikara
• Belarusian: сітаўка f (sitawka), пліска f (pliska)
• Bulgarian: стърчиопашка f (stǎrčiopaška)
• Catalan: cuereta (ca) f
• Chechen: хӏуьрцӏалдиг (hürcʼaldig)
• Chichewa: nthowitowi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶺鴒 / 鹡鸰 (zh) (jílíng), 雝渠 / 雍渠 (zh) (yōngqú)

• Czech: konipas (cs)
• Danish: vipstjert (da) c
• Dutch: kwikstaart (nl) m
• Esperanto: motacilo
• Faroese: erla f
• Finnish: västäräkki (fi)
• French: hochequeue (fr) m, bergeronnette (fr) f
• Georgian: ბოლოქანქარა (bolokankara)
• German: Stelze (de) f
• Gilaki: دمب‌لاس‌کونی (dumb-lās-kūney)
• Greek: σουσουράδα (el) f (sousouráda)
• Hebrew: נַחְלִיאֵלִי (he) m (naẖliéli)
• Hindi: खंजन (hi) m (khañjan)
• Hungarian: billegető (hu)
• Ido: motacilo (io)
• Irish: glasóg f
• Italian: cutrettola (it) f, batticoda (it) f, ballerina (it) f
• Japanese: 鶺鴒 (ja) (セキレイ, sekirei)
• Komi-Zyrian: сырчик (syrćik)
• Korean: 할미새 (halmisae), 아리새 (arisae)
• Latgalian: cīlova
• Latin: motacilla f
• Latvian: cielava f
• Lithuanian: kielė m
• Malagasy: triotrio (mg)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: вырляҥге (vyrĺaŋge), чывызык (čyvyzyk)

  Western Mari: вӹрлӓнгӹ (vÿrlängÿ), вӹтлӓнгӹ (vÿtlängÿ)

• Norman: craûlant-coue m, craûlant-tchu m, glianneux m, gliaineux m, labouotheux m, lavandgiéthe f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erle f
• Ottoman Turkish: یوند قوشی (yund kuşu), قویروق صالایان (kuyruk sallayan), قویروق صالان (kuyruk sallan)
• Persian: دم‌جنبانک (fa) (dom-jonbânak), سوسلنگ (fa) (sūseleng) (Mašhad)
• Polish: pliszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: alvéola (pt) f, alvéloa (pt), lavandisca (pt) f, lavandeira (pt) f
• Romanian: codobatură (ro) f, prundaș (ro) m
• Russian: трясогу́зка (ru) f (trjasogúzka)
• Serbo-Croatian: pliska (sh) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pliška f, spliška f

• Spanish: lavandera (es) f
• Swedish: ärla (sv) c
• Tatar: чәперчек (tt) (çäperçek)
• Turkish: kuyruk sallayan
• Udmurt: чечег (ćećeg)
• Ukrainian: пли́ска f (plýska)
• Urdu: مَدِیرا f (madīrā)
• Vietnamese: chìa vôi
• Welsh: siglen f, tingsigl m or f
• Wolof: coblet

See also

• oriole

References

• wagtail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Motacillidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Motacillidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “wagtail”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.