common starling - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Calque of translingual Sturnus vulgaris, via common + starling.
common starling (plural common starlings)
- A bird of the species Sturnus vulgaris.
- (Sturnus vulgaris): European starling, starling
Sturnus vulgaris
- Albanian: gargull (sq) m, shturë (sq) f, cirlua (sq) m
- Asturian: estornín pintu (ast)
- Bengali: চিত্রা শালিক (citra śalik), পাতি কাঠশালিক (pati kaṭhśalik)
- Bhojpuri: तिलेर मैना (tilēr mainā)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 紫翅椋鸟
- Dutch: spreeuw (nl) m or f
- Finnish: kottarainen (fi)
- French: étourneau sansonnet (fr) m, étourneau commun (fr) m
- German: Star (de) m
- Greek: ευρωπαϊκό ψαρόνι n (evropaïkó psaróni)
- Japanese: 星椋鳥 (ja) (hoshi mukudori)
- Malayalam: കാളിക്കിളി (kāḷikkiḷi)
- Russian: обыкнове́нный скворе́ц m (obyknovénnyj skvoréc)
- Tongan: misi pālangi