Owl

Noun

 * 1) Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
 * 2) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.

Derived terms

 * barn owl
 * eagle owl
 * elf owl
 * great horned owl
 * little owl
 * long eared owl
 * night owl
 * owl bus
 * owl-butterfly
 * owl-faced monkey
 * owlglass


 * owl jug
 * owl-light
 * owl-swallow
 * owl-moth
 * owl train
 * powerful owl
 * screech owl
 * sea-owl
 * stuffed owl
 * tawny owl
 * as wise as an owl

Adjectives for Owl
moping; staring; melodious; vile; great; horned; nocturnal; clamorous; uncouth.

Thesaurus
angry clouds, avifauna, baby bird, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdy, black cat, black clouds, broken mirror, cage bird, chick, cygnet, diving bird, dove, eagle, eaglet, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, fowl, fruit-eating bird, fulmar, game bird, gathering clouds, halcyon bird, insect-eating bird, migrant, migratory bird, nestling, oscine bird, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, pigeon, rainbow, ratite, raven, sea bird, seed-eating bird, shooting star, shore bird, songbird, squab, storm clouds, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, thundercloud, thunderhead, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, wildfowl

Etymology
owle:, from ule:, from  (cf. West Frisian ûle:, Dutch uil:, Danish ugle:), diminutive of  ‘eagle-owl’ (cf. German Uhu:), variant of  (cf. Swedish uv: ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf:), from  (cf. Latvian ũpis: ‘eagle-owl’, Czech upeti: ‘to wail, howl’, Avestan undefined: ‘to call out’).

Pronunciation

 * also ,
 * also ,

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: (buuma)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: bayquş
 * Basque:, , ,
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian: кукумявка
 * Catalan: òliba, mussol
 * Cebuano: ,
 * Central Bontoc: koop
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 貓頭鷹, 猫头鹰
 * Crimean Tatar: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: strigo
 * Estonian:, kakk
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian:
 * Galician: moucho
 * Georgian: ბუ
 * German: ,
 * Greek: γλαύκα,
 * Hebrew: ינשוף,, לילית, אוח
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Ivatan: bantuluk
 * Japanese: 梟 (フクロウ, fukurō)
 * Korean: 올빼미 (olppaemi), 부엉이 (bueong-i)
 * Kurdish:, , pû,
 * Ladin:
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, noctua,
 * Latvian:, apogs, ūpis


 * Lithuanian: ; also (some species)
 * Low Saxon: uul
 * Lower Sorbian: sowa
 * Macedonian: був, ут,
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: hullad
 * Maricopa: mmdii
 * Mongolian: ууль (uul’)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ugle
 * O'odham: cukut
 * Occitan: chòta
 * Old English:
 * Pangasinan: kolayot
 * Pashto: کونګ
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tschuetta
 * Russian: ,
 * Sami: skuolfelottit
 * Santali:
 * Sardinian: tirulia, cuccumeu, cuccumiau
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:, jeja, jejina,
 * Sicilian: cuccu (big, Bubo bubo), cucca  (small, Athene noctua)
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , tecolote , mochuelo  , autillo  , cárabo  , cuco  , sijú cotunto  , caburé  , chuncho  , anteojo  , tucúquere
 * Swahili: bundi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kuwago
 * Tamil:
 * Taos:
 * Telugu: గుడ్లగూబ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Uyghur: مۈشۈك ياپىلاق
 * Volapük: lül,  hilül,  jilül,  lülül
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ûle

Anagrams

 * low