jackdaw
A bird of the genus Coloeus, similar in appearance to crows and found within the same…A bird of the genus Coloeus, similar in appearance to crows and found within the same family; traditionally associated with church towers and ruins, where it frequently likes to nest.
» It's a very intelligent bird, but it's not a magpie at all; it's a jackdaw.
Це дуже розумний птах, але це зовсім не сорока. Це галка.
Meaning
1 sensesA bird of the genus Coloeus, similar in appearance to crows and found within the same family; traditionally associated with church towers and ruins, where it frequently likes to nest.
Dohle
га́лкаgálka
га́лкаhálka
- common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
Examples
7 sentencesIt's a very intelligent bird, but it's not a magpie at all; it's a jackdaw.
Це дуже розумний птах, але це зовсім не сорока. Це галка.
It's not a crow, but a jackdaw.
ruЭто не ворона, а галка.
deDas ist keine Krähe, sondern eine Dohle.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
ruГалкам нравится мой большой кварцевый сфинкс.
One does not need to be an ornithologist to be able to distinguish blackbirds from crows or even jackdaws.
deMan braucht kein Ornithologe zu sein, um Amseln von Krähen oder gar Dohlen unterscheiden zu können.
Jackdaws are birds.
ruГалки - это птицы.
Translations
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Origin
Compound of jack + daw. The first element, also present in Low German (North Saxon) JökerCompound of jack + daw. The first element, also present in Low German (North Saxon) Jöker (“jackdaw”), may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, maybe influenced by association with the name Jack. The second element means “jackdaw” in itself, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhwā. Cognate with Old Prussian doacke (“starling”), Latin faccilāre (“the sound or timbre of the thrush”), and German Dohle (“jackdaw”).
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