Meaning

5 senses
  1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.

  2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.

    Sperling, Spatz

    воробе́йvorobéj, воро́бышекvoróbyšek, воро́бушекvoróbušek

    горобе́цьhorobécʹ, горо́бчикhoróbčyk, воробе́цьvorobécʹ

  3. A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.

  4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.

  5. (London, UK)A quick-witted, lively person.

    cockney sparrow

More definitions
  • any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
  • small brownish European songbird

Examples

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  1. Do you see sparrows around here?

    ruТы видишь здесь воробьёв?

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  2. Tom hears the chirps of sparrows.

    Том чує щебетання горобців.

    ruТом слышит чириканье воробьёв.

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  3. It's a sparrow.

    Це горобець.

    ruЭто воробей.

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  4. I am scaring the sparrows away.

    deIch verscheuche die Spatzen.

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  5. That bird is probably a sparrow.

    ruТа птица, скорее всего, воробей.

    deDer Vogel da ist vermutlich ein Spatz.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
bird of the family Passeridae:
Русский
By meaning 1
bird of the family Passeridae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
bird of the family Passeridae:

Origin

From Middle English sparewe, sparowe, sparu, sparwe, spearewe, sperrewe, from Old English

From Middle English sparewe, sparowe, sparu, sparwe, spearewe, sperrewe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”).

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