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wren

wren

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English

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wren

Alternative forms

wran (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English wrenne, wranne, from Old English wrenna, wrænna, werna, wærna, wrenne (“wren”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrandijō, from Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (“wren”).

Cognate with Old Saxon wrendilo (“wren”), Old High German rento, rentilo (“wren”), Danish rindel (“wren”), Icelandic rindill (“wren”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɛn/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

wren (plural wrens)

Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.

Derived terms

Translations

bird of family Troglodytidae

Albanian: cinxami (sq) m, çerr (sq) m, ferrak (sq) m
Arabic: صَعْو m (ṣaʕw), وَصْع m (waṣʕ)
Asturian: cenrica (ast), abangavigues (ast)
Breton: dreolan f
Catalan: cargolet m
Central Sierra Miwok: šawánṭi·ṭi-
Cherokee: ᏥᏥ (tsitsi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鷦鷯／鹪鹩 (zh) (jiāoliáo), 䳦 (zh) (xuān), 䲾 (zh) (qiǎo), 鴱／𱉪 (zh) (ài)
Cornish: gwrannen f
Czech: střízlík (cs) m
Danish: gærdesmutte (da) c
Dutch: winterkoninkje (nl) n
Esperanto: birdreĝo, troglodito
Estonian: käblik (et)
Faroese: mortítlingur, músabróðir (fo)
Finnish: peukaloinen (fi)
French: roitelet (fr) m, roitelet huppé (fr) m
Galician: carrizo (gl)
Georgian: ჭინჭრაქა (č̣inč̣raka), ღობემძვრალა (ɣobemʒvrala)
German: Zaunkönig (de) m
Greek: τρυποφράχτης (el) m (trypofráchtis), τρωγλοδύτης (el) m (troglodýtis)
Ancient: κόρθιλος m (kórthilos)
Hungarian: ökörszem (hu)
Icelandic: músarindill
Irish: dreoilín
Old Irish: dreän
Italian: scricciolo (it) m
Japanese: ミソサザイ (misosazai)
Latin: rēgulus m
Ligurian: rætìn m
Lombard: caruspi (lmo) m
Luxembourgish: Zwirkinnek m
Navajo: jádídlǫ́ʼii
Norman: raîté m (Jersey)
Northern Sami: bealgeloddi
Norwegian: gjerdesmett (no) m
Old English: wrenna m
Polish: strzyżyk (pl) m
Portuguese: carriça (pt) f, uirapuru m (Brazil)
Romanian: pitulice (ro) f, ochiul-boului (ro) m
Russian: крапи́вник (ru) m (krapívnik)
Scottish Gaelic: dreathan donn m
Serbo-Croatian: strež (sh) m, carić m
Seri: (lit. the one who is looking for her husband) acáam ccaa
Slovak: striežik m
Slovene: stržek (sl) m
Spanish: chochín (es) m, cucarachero m (Latin America), ratona (es) f (Argentina)
Svan: გუ̂ანც (gûanc)
Swedish: gärdsmyg (sv) c
Ukrainian: кропи́в'янка f (kropývʺjanka), воло́ве о́чко n (volóve óčko)
Volapük: troglodüt (vo)
Welsh: dryw (cy) m or f

References

“wren”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Middle English

Noun

wren

Alternative form of wrenne

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