Vulture

Noun

 * 1) Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
 * 2)  A person who profits from the suffering of others.

Thesaurus
blackmailer, bloodsucker, extortionist, filch, harpy, heist, hook, leech, lift, pinch, predator, profiteer, racketeer, raptor, shakedown artist, shark, snitch, swipe, vampire

Etymology
From vultur:, voltur:.

Derived terms

 * griffon vulture
 * turkey vulture

Translations

 * Afrikaans: aasvoël
 * Albanian: shkaba
 * Arabic: (nasr)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: sai arre
 * Belarusian: белагаловы сіп (biełahałovy sip)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: gup gell
 * Bulgarian: лешояд (lešojad)
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 兀鷹, 兀鹰,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: grib
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kaeluskotkas
 * Faroese: gammur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: variűl
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ორბი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: נשר
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gæsagammur
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: bultúr
 * Italian:, (griffon vulture)
 * Japanese: ハゲタカ (hagetaka)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:


 * Ladin: valtoi
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: baltgalvas grifs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: sup
 * Macedonian: мршоjадец (mršojadec)
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese: avultun
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian: gribb
 * Occitan: voltor
 * Persian: کرکس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tschess
 * Russian:
 * Sami: goaskin, čuonjáráhtogoaskin
 * Sardinian: bentruxiu, untruxu, murru
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: mrhovinar, jastreb (a species of these birds)
 * Spanish: buitre
 * Swahili: tai, gushu, tumbusi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: buitre
 * Telugu: రాబందు (raabandu)
 * Thai: อีแร้ง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: sup
 * Volapük: vultur,  hivultur,  jivultur,  vulturül
 * Welsh: fwltur, fultur
 * West Frisian: gier


 * French: