Meaning

6 senses
  1. Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

    any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

  2. Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.

    Lerche

    жа́воронокžávoronok

    жа́йворонокžájvoronok

  3. (broadly)One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

    Frühaufsteher, Lerche

    жа́воронокžávoronok

  4. A jolly or peppy person.

  5. A frolic or romp, some fun.

    Spaß

    заба́ваzabáva

  6. A prank.

    Streich

    шу́ткаšútka, прока́заprokáza

Examples

19 sentences
  1. I did it on a lark.

  2. Tom's just larking about.

    Том просто дуркує. — deniko

    deTom albert nur herum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom was up with the lark.

    deTom ist beim ersten Hahnenschrei aufgestanden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Don't come to school to lark around.

    ruНе приходи в школу, чтобы дурачиться. — odexed

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  5. Her voice was sweeter than the lark's.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
bird:
Русский
By meaning 3
bird:
romp, frolic, some fun:
prank:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
bird:
one who wakes early:
romp, frolic, some fun:
prank:

Origin

From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto

From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwaʀikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.

Uncertain, either

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