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turtle_dove

turtle dove

See also: turtledove and turtle-dove

English

Turtle doves

Alternative forms

turtle-dove, turtledove

Noun

turtle dove ‎(plural turtle doves)

Any of several birds in the genus Streptopelia of the pigeon family.

Derived terms

Terms derived from turtle dove

Australian turtle dove
Cape turtle dove
dusky turtle dove
Eurasian turtle dove

red turtle dove
rufous turtle dove
spotted turtle dove

Translations

bird in the genus Streptopelia

Afrikaans: tortelduif
Albanian: turtulli
Arabic: تُرْغُلَّة f ‎(turḡulla)
Moroccan Arabic: ڭْريڭر m ‎(grigər), ڭْريڭْرة ‎(grigra) (female), دْكر لْله m ‎(dkər lləh) (meaning "call God", from its song)
Armenian: տատրակ (hy) ‎(tatrak)
Basque: usapal
Belarusian: турка́ўка f ‎(turkáŭka)
Breton: turzhunell voutin
Bulgarian: гургули́ца f ‎(gurgulíca)
Catalan: tórtora f
Chechen: къор-кхокха ‎(q̇or-qoqa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 斑鳩 (zh) ‎(ōubānjiū), 斑鸠 (zh) ‎(bānjiū)
Czech: hrdlička (cs) f
Danish: turteldue (da)
Dutch: tortelduif (nl) f
Esperanto: turto (eo)
Estonian: turteltuvi
Faroese: turtildúgva
Finnish: turturikyyhky (fi)
French: tourterelle (fr) f
Friulian: tortorele
Galician: rula común (gl)
German: Turteltaube (de) f
Greek: τριγόνι ‎(trigóni)
Hungarian: vadgerle, gerle (hu)
Icelandic: turtildúfa (is)
Irish: fearán
Italian: tortora (it) f
Japanese: コキジバト ‎(kokijibato)
Kurdish: qumrî (ku) f
Latin: turtur m

Latvian: parastā ūbele
Lithuanian: purplelis (lt)
Lower Sorbian: tujawka
Macedonian: грлица f ‎(g'rlica)
Maltese: gamiema
Navajo: hasbídí
Norman: d'mié-pigeon m (Jersey), p'tit pigeon d'France m (Jersey)
Norwegian: turteldue
Occitan: tortora f
Polish: turkawka (pl)
Portuguese: rola (pt) f
Quechua: urpi (qu)
Romanian: turturică (ro) f, turturea (ro) f
Romansch: turturella
Russian: го́рлица (ru) f ‎(górlica), го́рлинка (ru) f ‎(górlinka)
Sami: turtelduvvá
Sardinian: trùtture, trùtturi, truvamassaju
Scottish Gaelic: calman-tùchan
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: грлица f

Roman: grlica (sh) f
Slovak: hrdlička
Slovene: grlica (sl) f
Spanish: tórtola (es) f
Swahili: hua (sw)
Swedish: turturduva (sv)
Tagalog: lapati
Turkish: üveyik (tr)
Ukrainian: го́рлиця ‎(hórlycja)
Upper Sorbian: tujawka
Walloon: toûtrale (wa) f
Welsh: turtur
West Frisian: toarteldo
Yiddish: טערקלטויב f ‎(terkltoyb)