house sparrow

English

Noun

house sparrow (plural house sparrows)

A bird of the species Passer domesticus, native to much of Eurasia, introduced in many other temperate environments.

Synonyms

(Passer domesticus): English sparrow (US), Indian sparrow, Indian house sparrow, sparr, sparrer, spadger, spadgick, philip, spatzie, spotsie

Derived terms

Indian house sparrow

Translations

house sparrow range
dark green: native; light green: introduced

Passer domesticus

Arabic: عُصْفُور‎ m (ʿuṣfūr), دُورِيّ‎ m (dūriyy)
Egyptian Arabic: عصفورة‎ f (ʿaṣfūra), عصفور‎ m (ʿaṣfūr)
Armenian: ճնճղուկ տնային (čnčłuk tnayin), ճնճղուկ (hy) (čnčłuk)
Assamese: ঘৰচিৰিকা (ghorsirika), ঘনচিৰিকা (ghonsirika), ঘৰচৰাই (ghorsorai)
Asturian: pardal (ast) m
Belarusian: верабей (be) m (verabéj)
Bhojpuri: गौरइया (gauraiyā)
Catalan: pardal comú m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 麻雀 (maa⁴ zoek³^-²)

Hakka: 屋檐鳥, 屋檐鸟 (vuk-yàm-tiâu), 屋角鳥, 屋角鸟 (vuk-kok-tiâu), 禾鷝仔 (vò-pit-é, lò-pit-é)

Mandarin: 麻雀 (zh) (máquè), 家雀 (jiāquè)

Min Nan: 粟鳥仔 (zh-min-nan), 粟鸟仔 (chhek-chiáu-á), 厝角鳥仔 (zh-min-nan), 厝角鸟仔 (chhù-kak-chiáu-á), 粟鳥, 粟鸟 (chhek-chiáu), 厝角鳥, 厝角鸟 (chhù-kak-chiáu), 杙鳥仔, 杙鸟仔 (khit-chiáu--á) (Kinmen), 厝鳥仔 (zh-min-nan), 厝鸟仔 (chhù-chiáu-á)
Czech: vrabec (cs) m
Dalmatian: čelka f
Danish: gråspurv (da) c
Dutch: huismus (nl) m or f
Esperanto: dompasero
Estonian: varblane (et), koduvarblane
Faroese: gráspurvur (fo) m
Finnish: varpunen (fi)
French: moineau domestique (fr) m, moineau franc (fr) m
Friulian: passare f
Galician: pardal m
Georgian: ბეღურა (beɣura)
German: Spatz (de) m, Sperling (de) m, Haussperling m
Alemannic German: Spatz
Greek: σπιτοσπουργίτι n (spitospourgíti)
Ancient: στρουθίον n (strouthíon), στρουθός m or f (strouthós)
Gujarati: ચકલી (gu) f (caklī)
Hebrew: דרור הבית‎ m (dror ha-báyt)
Hungarian: házi veréb, veréb (hu)
Irish: gealbhan binne m
Italian: passero (it) m
Japanese: スズメ (ja) (suzume), 雀 (ja) (すずめ, zuzume)
Korean: 참새 (ko) (chamsae)
Latgalian: zvierbuļs m, žeigurs m
Latin: passer (la) m

Latvian: zvirbulis m
Maltese: għasfur tal-bejt m
Mazanderani: میچکا‎ (mičkâ)
Mongolian: бор шувуу (bor šuvuu), гэрийн бор шувуу (gerijn bor šuvuu)
Navajo: tsídiiłbáhí
North Frisian: hüssparag, hüsspåri, grae spåri
Norwegian: gråspurv (no)
Nynorsk: gråsporv
Old English: spearwa m
Oriya: ଘର ଚଟିଆ (ghara catiā)
Persian: گنجشک‎ (fa) (gonješk), ملیچ‎ (malič) (dialectal)
Polish: wróbel (pl) m
Portuguese: pardal-doméstico m
Romanian: vrabie (ro) f
Romansch: pasler m, pasler da chasa m (Rumantsch Grischun), ghirschùn m (Sutsilvan)
Russian: воробе́й (ru) m (vorobéj), воробе́й обыкнове́нный m (vorobéj obyknovénnyj)
Rusyn: воробе́ль m (vorobélʹ), воробе́ць m (vorobécʹ)
Scots: spug, spuggy, spur, sprig
Scottish Gaelic: gealbhonn m
Slovak: vrabec (sk) m
Slovene: vrabec (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wrobel m

Upper Sorbian: wrobl m, wroblik m
Spanish: gorrión común
Swedish: gråsparv (sv)
Sylheti: ꠌꠠꠂ (soṛoi)
Tagalog: bahay maya
Telugu: పిచ్చుక (te) (piccuka)
Thai: นกกระจอก (th)
Ukrainian: горобе́ць (uk) m (horobécʹ)
Vietnamese: chim sẻ
Volapük: spär (vo)
Walloon: soverdea (wa) m, moxhon d' toet (wa) m, pierot (wa) m
Welsh: aderyn y to (cy) m
West Frisian: mosk (fy)
Zhuang: roeglaej

References

house sparrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Passer domesticus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Passer domesticus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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