Meaning
1 sensesAny long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
Reiher
ца́пляcáplja
ча́пляčáplja
grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
Examples
14 sentencesThe heron is a wading bird.
deDer Reiher ist ein Stelzvogel.
Lots of herons live in the marsh.
ruМного цапель живёт на болоте.
deViele Reiher leben im Sumpf.
Is that a stork or a heron?
ruЭто аист или цапля?
deIst das ein Storch oder ein Reiher?
In muddy water, the heron grows fat.
ruВ мутной воде цапля тучнеет.
The heron had to hunt for food every day.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hFrom Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.
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Forms
plural: heronsSynonyms
2 synonyms- Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century):HeroHero of Alexandria