sparrow

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈspæɹəʊ/|/ˈspaɹəw/    美 /ˈspæɹoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
    — Man progresses generally, not both legs at once like a sparrow, but by putting one leg forward first, and then the other.
  2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
  3. A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
  4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
  5. A quick-witted, lively person. London,UK
    — cockney sparrow

词形变化

sparrows plural

词汇关系

下位词
American sparrow American tree sparrow Bachman's sparrow barley sparrow Bell's sparrow Botteri's sparrow Brewer sparrow Brewer's sparrow bush sparrow Cape sparrow Cassin's sparrow chipping sparrow cock-sparrow cock sparrow crown sparrow diamond sparrow English sparrow Eurasian tree sparrow field sparrow Forbush's sparrow fox sparrow German sparrow grasshopper sparrow grass sparrow ground sparrow Harris's sparrow hedge sparrow Henslow's sparrow hen sparrow house sparrow Ipswich sparrow Italian sparrow Java sparrow lark sparrow LeConte's sparrow Lincoln's sparrow mountain sparrow native sparrow Nelson's sparrow New World sparrow night sparrow Old World sparrow paradise sparrow reed sparrow ring sparrow rock sparrow rufous-collared sparrow rufous-crowned sparrow russet sparrow sagebrush sparrow sage sparrow saltmarsh sparrow Savannah sparrow saxaul sparrow seaside sparrow sharp-tailed sparrow snow sparrow song sparrow Spanish sparrow Texas sparrow timberline sparrow tree sparrow true sparrow vesper sparrow water sparrow white-crowned sparrow white-throated sparrow Zapata sparrow
衍生词
olive sparrow rock sparrow sparrowcide sparrowdom sparrow dominoes sparrow fart sparrow-fart sparrow grass sparrowgrass sparrow-grass sparrowhawk sparrow hawk sparrowish sparrowlark sparrow-lark sparrowless sparrowlike sparrowling sparrow mumbling sparrow owl sparrow-proof sparrow shot sparrows' wedding sparrow weaver sparrow-weaver sparrowwort sparrowy

词源

From Middle English sparwe, sparowe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō, from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow”).
Cognate with Dutch spreeuw (“starling”), Alemannic German Spar (“sparrow”), German Sperling (“sparrow”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål spurv (“sparrow”), Norwegian Nynorsk sporv (“sparrow”), Swedish sparv (“sparrow”), Breton frao (“crow”), Tocharian A ṣpārāñ, Ancient Greek ψάρ (psár, “starling”), as well as Italian sparviero and Italian sparviere (“hawk”).
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