thrush

See also: Thrush

English

a song thrush

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thrush

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Turdidae

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θɹʌʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:
  I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.
(US, colloquial) A female singer.

Derived terms

Translations

one of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae

Afrikaans: lyster
Arabic: دُجّ (dujj)
Armenian: կեռնեխ (hy) (keṙnex)
Aromanian: sturdzu m, strudz m
Asturian: malvís (ast), tordu (ast), zarzal (ast)
Belarusian: дрозд m (drozd)
Bulgarian: дрозд (bg) m (drozd)
Catalan: tord (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鶇／鸫 (zh) (dōng)
Cornish: molgh f
Czech: drozd (cs) m
Danish: drossel (da) c
Dutch: lijster (nl) f
Esperanto: turdo (eo)
Estonian: rästas (et)
Faroese: trøstur m
Finnish: rastas (fi)
French: grive (fr) m
Friulian: dordei m
Galician: arnelo m, chalra f, malvís m, tordo m
Georgian: შაშვი (šašvi)
German: Drossel (de) f
Greek: τσίχλα (el) f (tsíchla)
Ancient: κίχλη f (kíkhlē)
Hebrew: קִיכְלִי (he) m (qichlí)
Hungarian: rigó (hu)
Icelandic: þröstur (is) m
Ido: turdo (io)
Interlingua: turdo
Irish: smólach m
Italian: tordo (it) m
Japanese: 鶇 (ja) (ツグミ, tsugumi)
Korean: 지빠귀 (jippagwi)
Latgalian: strods m
Latin: turdus m
Latvian: strazds
Laz: ზესკუ (zesǩu), მზესკუ (mzesǩu), მზესქუ (mzesku), ზემსკუ (zemsǩu), ზემსქუ (zemsku)
Lithuanian: strãzdas (lt) m
Low German: Liester m, Drossel f
Luxembourgish: Dréischel f
Macedonian: дрозд m (drozd)
Mazanderani: تیکا (tikâ)
Mingrelian: ზესკვი (zesḳvi), ზესქვი (zeskvi)
Neapolitan: marvizzo m
Norman: graïve m (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trost (no) m

Nynorsk: trast m or f, trost m or f
Occitan: tordre (oc), tord m
Old Norse: þrǫstr m
Old Slovak: drozd m
Ottoman Turkish: آردج قوشی (ardıç kuşu)
Polish: drozd (pl) m
Portuguese: tordo (pt) m (chiefly Portugal), sabiá (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: sturz (ro) m
Russian: дрозд (ru) m (drozd)
Scottish Gaelic: smeòrach f
Serbo-Croatian: drȍzd (sh) m, drozak (sh), дрозд m, дрозак m
Sicilian: turdu (scn) m
Slovak: drozd (sk) m
Slovene: drozg (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: drozna f
Spanish: tordo (es) m, mirlo (es) m, zorzal (es) m
Swedish: trast (sv) c
Tagalog: pipit-tulog
Ukrainian: дрізд m (drizd)
Venetian: tordo m
Volapük: turd
Welsh: bronfraith (cy) f
Yiddish: דראָסל m (drosl)
Zulu: umunswi class 3/4

woman who sings popular songs

Finnish: laulajatar (fi)
Russian: певи́чка (ru) f (pevíčka)

Etymology 2

Uncertain; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish trøske, from Proto-Germanic *þrastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos.

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

A fungal infection caused by species of genus Candida, affecting the mouth or vagina; candidiasis.
- 1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “AIDS Redefined In 1992?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 6:
  Cervical cancer and recurrent vaginal thrush are both strongly linked to the presence of HIV in women.

Synonyms

candidiasis

Derived terms

oral thrush

Translations

fungal infection — see also candidiasis

Breton: borb m
Bulgarian: млечница f (mlečnica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)
Czech: kandidóza f, poševní kvasinková infekce f
Danish: trøske
Dutch: spruw (nl) f
Faroese: trøska f
Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
French: (general) muguet (fr) m, (vaginal) mycose vaginale f
German: Soor (de) m, Soormykose f, (in horses) Strahlfäule f
Greek: άφτρα (el) f (áftra)
Hungarian: (oral) szájpenész (hu), (vaginal) hüvelygomba, (either) candida-fertőzés
Irish: salachar béil m
Italian: mughetto (it) m, candida (it) f, candidosi (it) f
Macedonian: соор (soor)
Polish: (oral) pleśniawka f, (vaginal) drożdżyca (pl) f
Portuguese: sapinhos m pl, cândida (pt) f
Russian: моло́чница (ru) f (molóčnica), кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
Serbo-Croatian: kandidijaza (sh), soor
Slovak: kandidóza f
Spanish: (oral) sapito m, algodoncillo (es) m
Swedish: torsk (sv)
Turkish: kandidiyaz (tr), kandidoz (tr)
Welsh: llindag m, gân m or f, (in horses) trysgli f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mullenjë (sq) f
Volapük: ^{(please verify)} turd, ^{(please verify)} musigaturd

References

“*thrush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.