harrier

See also: Harrier

English

Etymology

From harry ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæɹi.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)

Noun

harrier (plural harriers)

1. One who harries.
2. Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.
3. A runner, specifically, a cross country runner.
4. A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.

Derived terms

• African harrier-hawk
• African marsh harrier, Circus ranivorus
• black harrier, Circus maurus
• cinereous harrier, Circus cinereus
• eastern marsh harrier, Circus spilonotus
• harrier carrier
• Harrier jump jet
• hen harrier, Circus cyaneus
• long-winged harrier, Circus buffoni
• Malagasy marsh harrier, Circus maillardi
• marsh harrier (Circus spp.)
• Montagu's harrier, Circus pygargus
• northern harrier, Circus hudsonius
• pallid harrier, Circus macrourus
• pied harrier, Circus melanoleucos
• spotted harrier, Circus assimilis
• swamp harrier, Circus approximans
• Western marsh harrier, Circus aeruginosus

 

Translations

birds of prey

• Armenian: մկնաբազե (hy) (mknabaze)
• Avar: итаркӏо (itarkʼo)
• Breton: skoul (br) m
• Bulgarian: ястреб блатар m (jastreb blatar)
• Buryat: хулда (xulda)
• Catalan: arpella (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鷂／鹞 (zh) (yào)

• Czech: moták m
• Dutch: kiekendief (nl) m
• Esperanto: cirkuo
• Finnish: suohaukka (fi)
• French: busard (fr) m
• Galician: aigote m, peneiriño m
• German: Weihe (de) f
• Gujarati: પટ્ટાઈ f (paṭṭāī)
• Hungarian: rétihéja (hu)
• Irish: cromán m
• Italian: albanella (it) f
• Japanese: 沢鵟 (chūhi)
• Latvian: lija f
• Lithuanian: lingė (lt) ?
• Low German:

  German Low German: Wieh f

• Luxembourgish: Hénkeldéif m, Wei f
• Macedonian: е́ја f (éja)
• Maori: kāhu
• Navajo: chʼiltaatʼagii
• Persian: باز (fa) (bâz), سنقر (fa) (sonqor)
• Polish: błotniak (pl) m
• Portuguese: tartaranhão m
• Romanian: erete (ro) m
• Romansch: melv m
• Russian: лунь (ru) m (lunʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зѐча̄р m

  Roman: zèčār (sh) m

• Spanish: aguilucho (es) m
• Swedish: kärrhök (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лунь (uk) m (lunʹ)
• Welsh: boda m

A kind of dog used to hunt hares

• Bulgarian: гонче n (gonče), зайчар m (zajčar)
• Finnish: jäniskoira (fi)
• Irish: gadhar fiaigh m, madra seilge m
• Macedonian: за́јчар m (zájčar)