One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.
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Curlew
//ˈkɜːlju//
Synonyms for "curlew" (1 found)
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44 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- kllinzë noun (migratory wading bird)
- kojlik noun (migratory wading bird)
Arabic
2 entries- كروان noun (migratory wading bird)
- كَرَوَان noun (migratory wading bird)
Asturian
2 entries- algaraván noun (migratory wading bird)
- zarapicu noun (migratory wading bird)
Catalan
2 entries- becut noun (migratory wading bird)
- polit noun (migratory wading bird)
Czech
1 entries- koliha noun (migratory wading bird)
Dutch
1 entries- wulp noun (migratory wading bird)
Esperanto
2 entries- kurlo noun (migratory wading bird)
- numenio noun (migratory wading bird)
Finnish
1 entries- kuovi noun (migratory wading bird)
French
1 entries- courlis noun (migratory wading bird)
Galician
1 entries- mazarico noun (migratory wading bird)
German
1 entries- Brachvogel noun (migratory wading bird)
Greek
3 entries- νουμήνιος noun (migratory wading bird)
- τουρλί noun (migratory wading bird)
- τουρλίδα noun (migratory wading bird)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֶרְמְשׁוֹן noun (migratory wading bird)
Hungarian
1 entries- póling noun (migratory wading bird)
Ingrian
3 entries- sookulikka noun (migratory wading bird)
- vesikulli noun (migratory wading bird)
- vihmakulli noun (migratory wading bird)
Irish
2 entries- crotach noun (migratory wading bird)
- cuirliún noun (migratory wading bird)
Italian
1 entries- chiurlo noun (migratory wading bird)
Latvian
1 entries- kuitila noun (migratory wading bird)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kuolinga noun (migratory wading bird)
Navajo
1 entries- daakʼį́į́ʼ noun (migratory wading bird)
Norman
1 entries- couorlieu noun (migratory wading bird)
Nyunga
1 entries- weerlow noun (migratory wading bird)
Polish
2 entries- kulig noun (migratory wading bird)
- kulik noun (migratory wading bird)
Portuguese
1 entries- maçarico noun (migratory wading bird)
Romanian
2 entries- corlă noun (migratory wading bird)
- găinușă-de-baltă noun (migratory wading bird)
Russian
1 entries- кроншне́п noun (migratory wading bird)
Scots
1 entries- whaup noun (migratory wading bird)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- guilbneach noun (migratory wading bird)
Spanish
1 entries- zarapito noun (migratory wading bird)
Swahili
1 entries- membe noun (migratory wading bird)
Venetan
1 entries- arcasa noun (migratory wading bird)
Welsh
1 entries- gylfinir noun (migratory wading bird)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.
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