corncrake

See also: corn-crake and corn crake

English

Alternative forms

• corn crake, corn-crake

Etymology

From corn +‎ crake.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnkɹeɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹnˌkɹeɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

corncrake (plural corncrakes)

1. A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.

   Synonyms: bean-crake (obsolete), landrail

Translations

the bird Crex crex

• Afrikaans: kwartelkoning
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: талтар (taltar), тартал (tartal)

• Armenian: մարգահավ (margahav)
• Asturian: guión de falpayares m
• Azerbaijani: adi çivdimdik
• Bashkir: тартай (tartay)
• Basque: giloi
• Belarusian: дзярга́ч m (dzjarháč)
• Bengali: কর্ন ক্রেক (korno krek)
• Breton: rakig-melchon
• Bulgarian: дърдавец m (dărdavec)
• Carpathian Rusyn: деркач m (derkač)
• Catalan: guatlla maresa f, rei de guàtleres m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長腳秧雞 / 长脚秧鸡 (chángjiǎoyāngjī)

• Circassian:

  East Circassian: мэкъупӏэджэд (mɛqʷupʼɛdžɛd)

• Czech: chřástal polní (cs) m
• Danish: engsnarre (da) c, vagtelkonge c
• Dutch: kwartelkoning (nl) m
• Erzya: дерьгун (deŕgun)
• Esperanto: krekso
• Estonian: rukkirääk (et)
• Faroese: akurskritt n
• Finnish: ruisrääkkä (fi)
• French: râle des genêts (fr) m, roi des cailles (fr) m, roi caille (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: knalangefal n

  West Frisian: teapert c

• Georgian: ღალღა (ɣalɣa)
• German: Wachtelkönig (de) m, Wiesenralle f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: κρέξ f (kréx)

• Hungarian: haris (hu)
• Icelandic: engirella (is) f
• Ingrian: ruiskrääkkä
• Irish: traonach m
• Italian: re di quaglie m, gallinella terrestre f
• Japanese: 鶉水鶏 (ウズラクイナ, uzurakuina)
• Kashubian: kasper
• Kazakh: шәукілдек (šäwkildek)
• Komi:

  Komi-Zyrian: герчкан (gerćkan)

• Korean: 메추라기뜸부기 (mechuragitteumbugi)
• Kumyk: тартар (tartar)
• Latvian: grieze f
• Lithuanian: griežlė (lt) f
• Livvi: ruislindu
• Macedonian: прдавец m (prdavec), крекс m (kreks)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: кӓрш (kärš)

• Mongolian: явган түнжин (javgan tünžin)
• Norman: râle dé g'nêt f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åkerrikse m or f

  Nynorsk: åkerrikse f

• Occitan: rei de catla m
• Ossetian: цъӕх мӕга (c’æx mæga)
• Polish: derkacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: codornizão m
• Romanian: cristei (ro) m, cristel de câmp m
• Russian: дерга́ч (ru) m (dergáč), коросте́ль (ru) m (korostélʹ)
• Samogitian: grėižielie f, girgždielie f, grėižie f
• Scottish Gaelic: traon m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̏давац m

  Latin: pȑdavac (sh) m

• Slovak: chrapkáč poľný m, chriašteľ poľný m
• Slovene: kosec m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šarak m

  Upper Sorbian: carž m

• Spanish: guión de codornices m, rey de codornices m
• Swedish: kornknarr (sv) c
• Turkish: bıldırcın kılavuzu (tr)
• Ukrainian: дерка́ч m (derkáč)
• Venda: tähklind
• Volapük: kräg
• Welsh: rhegen yr ŷd f
• Yakut: лахаатта (laqaatta), кииллэни (kiilleni)