tern

English

an arctic tern

Pronunciation

(General American) enPR: tûrn, IPA^(key): /tɝn/
(Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûrn, IPA^(key): /tɜːn/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophones: turn, tarn
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

From a Scandinavian language, related to Danish and Norwegian terne, Swedish tärna, ultimately from Old Norse þerna

Noun

tern (plural terns)

Any of various sea birds of the family Sternidae that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

Derived terms

Translations

bird of family Sternidae

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: خَرْشَنَة‎ f (ḵaršana)
Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
Czech: rybák m
Danish: terne c
Esperanto: ŝterno
Faroese: terna (fo) f
Finnish: tiira (fi)
French: sterne (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Seeschwalbe (de) f, Meerschwalbe f
Greek: στέρνα (el) f (stérna)
Icelandic: þerna f
Ido: alcedo (io)
Irish: geabhróg f, scréachóg thrá f
Italian: sterna (it) f
Latin: larus m, sterna f
Manx: gant Arctagh m, gant cadjin m, gollan marrey m
Navajo: tónteel táshchozhii

Norman: daûtchet m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: terne m or f

Nynorsk: terne f
Polish: rybitwa (pl) f
Portuguese: andorinha-do-mar (pt) f, gaivina (pt) f
Romanian: rândunică-de-mare (ro) f
Russian: кра́чка (ru) f (kráčka)
Serbo-Croatian: čȉgra (sh) f, mòrska lȁstavica f
Slovak: rybár (sk) m
Slovene: čígra (sl) f
Spanish: charrán (es) m, fumarel m, gaviotín m
Tiwi: martapaka, wujirrini
Turkish: sumrugil
Ukrainian: кря́чок m (krjáčok)
Volapük: melasval
Welsh: morwennol f, môr-wennol f
West Frisian: stirns c
Wik-Mungkan: oopal

See also

sea swallow
tern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sternidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Sternidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From French terne. See tern (adjective).

Noun

tern (plural terns)

That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together.
(dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.
- Mrs Browning
  She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery.

Adjective

tern (not comparable)

threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate
tern flowers; tern leaves

a tern schooner, one with three masts

Anagrams

Rent, rent, tren

Middle English

Verb

tern

Alternative form of teren

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