English
Etymology
From German Lämmergeier, from Lämmer, plural of Lamm (“lamb”) + Geier (“vulture”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lammergeier (plural lammergeiers)
- A long-winged vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, found in southern Europe, Africa and India.
- Synonyms: bearded vulture, ossifrage
1887 November 25, “The Last Alpine Vulture”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 March 2024:According to the Swiss Journal of Ornithology, the Lammergeier, or Alpine vulture, may be regarded as extinct in Switzerland.
Translations
Gypaetus barbatus
- Afrikaans: baardaasvoël m, lammergier
- Albanian: shkabë mjekroshe f
- Arabic: نَسْر مِلَّتْحَيّ m (nasr millatḥayy)
- Armenian: գառնանգղ (hy) (gaṙnangġ)
- Middle Armenian: բրդոռ (brdoṙ)
- Azerbaijani: toğlugötürən
- Basque: ugatz
- Breton: guperer (br) m
- Bulgarian: брадат лешояд m (bradat lešojad)
- Catalan: trencalòs m
- Chechen: маж йолу аьрзу (maž jolu ärzu)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胡兀鷲 / 胡兀鹫 (hú wù jiù)
- Czech: orlosup (cs) m
- Danish: lammegrib c
- Dutch: lammergier (nl) m, baardgier (nl) m
- Esperanto: gipaeto (eo), ŝafgrifo, liphara gipaeto
- Finnish: partakorppikotka (fi)
- French: gypaète (fr) m
- Galician: quebraósos m
- German: Lämmergeier m, Bartgeier (de) m
- Greek: γυπαετός (el) m (gypaetós)
- Ancient: φήνη f (phḗnē)
- Hebrew: פֶּרֶס (he) m (péres)
- Hungarian: szakállas saskeselyű m
- Interlingua: vulture barbate
- Italian: gipeto (it) m, avvoltoio degli agnelli m
- Japanese: 髭鷲 (ひげわし, higewashi), ヒゲワシ (ja) (higewashi)
- Korean: 수염수리 (suyeomsuri)
- Kumyk: уллу тююлген (ullu tüyulgen)
- Malay: hering berjanggut m
- Manx: shirragh faasaagagh m
- Mongolian: ёл (mn) (jol)
- Navajo: hashtłʼish jeeshóóʼ
- Nepali: हाडफोर (hāḍaphor)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lammegribb (no)
- Persian: هما (fa) (homâ)
- Polish: orłosęp m
- Portuguese: xofrango m, quebra-ossos m
- Romanian: zăgan (ro) m, vultur bărbos m
- Romansch: tschess barbet m
- Russian: борода́ч (ru) m (borodáč), ягня́тник (ru) m (jagnjátnik)
- Sanskrit: जटायु (sa) m (jaṭāyu)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: жутоглави брадаш m, костоберина f
- Roman: žutoglavi bradaš (sh) m, kostoberina (sh) f
- Slovene: brkati ser
- Spanish: quebrantahuesos (es) m
- Swedish: lammgam (sv) c
- Turkish: kara kuş (tr) m, sakallı akbaba (tr)
- Volapük: jipülavultur (vo)
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