English
Etymology
From night + jar (“a discordant sound”), due to the bird's harsh call.
Pronunciation
Noun
nightjar (plural nightjars)
- Any of various medium-sized nocturnal birds, of the family Caprimulgidae from the order Caprimulgiformes, that feed predominantly on moths and other large flying insects.
Derived terms
Translations
nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae
- Apache:
- Western Apache: goodé
- Assamese: দিনকণা (dinkona)
- Asturian: ranciella (ast) f, rallu (ast) m, ralla (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: keçisağan
- Catalan: enganyapastors (ca) m
- Chechen: буьйсанан мокха хьоза (büüsanan moqa ḥʳoza)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 夜鷹 / 夜鹰 (zh) (yèyīng)
- Czech: lelek (cs) m
- Dutch: nachtzwaluw (nl) f
- Esperanto: kaprimulgo
- Estonian: öösorr (et)
- Finnish: kehrääjä (fi)
- French: engoulevent (fr) m
- Galician: noiteboa f, noitebra f
- German: Ziegenmelker (de) m, Nachtschwalbe (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: κύμινδις m (kúmindis)
- Hausa: yautai m
- Hebrew: תַּחְמָס (he) m (taẖmás)
- Hungarian: lappantyú (hu), kecskefejő (hu)
- Icelandic: náttfari (is) m
- Irish: tuirne lín m
- Italian: caprimulgo (it) m, succiacapre (it) m
- Japanese: 夜鷹 (yotaka)
- Kikuyu: kiugũigũ class 7
- Korean: 쏙독새 (ssokdoksae)
- Latin: caprimulgus m
- Luxembourgish: Fléimouk f
- Malay: burung tukang m
- Maltese: buqrajq m
- Manx: hullad rhennee f
- Navajo: naakʼidoolwoshii
- Norman: huppe f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: nattravn m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: natteramn m
- Polish: lelek (pl) m
- Portuguese: noitibó (pt) m, bacurau (pt) m, curiango m
- Romanian: caprimulg (ro) m
- Russian: козодо́й (ru) m (kozodój)
- Spanish: chotacabras (es) m, guardacaminos m, caprimulgo m
- Sranan Tongo: butabuta
- Swedish: nattskärra (sv) c
- Turkish: çobanaldatan (tr)
- Vietnamese: cú muỗi
- Welsh: gwalch y nos m, nyddwr m, troellwr m
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