sparrowhawk
A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that…A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
» Twenty sparrowhawks flee before an owl.
Meaning
3 sensesA Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
A Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds.
A female such bird, a male being a musket.
Any of numerous other relatively small birds of Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble A. nisus.
Sperber
Examples
3 sentencesTwenty sparrowhawks flee before an owl.
I think it was a sparrowhawk or a hobby.
ruЯ думаю, это был ястреб-перепелятник или чеглок.
Sparrowhawks are birds of prey.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-From Middle English sparhauk, sperhauk, from Old English spearhafoc, spearhabuc (“sparrow-hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *sparwahabuk, from Proto-Germanic *sparwahabukaz, equivalent to sparrow + hawk. Cognate with Danish spurvehøg (“sparrowhawk”), Swedish sparvhök (“sparrowhawk”), Icelandic sparrhaukur (“sparrowhawk”).
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