thrush

See also: Thrush

English

A song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɹʌʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”).

Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:

     I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.

2. (US, colloquial) A female singer.

Derived terms

• ant thrush, antthrush (Neocossyphus spp.)
• babbling thrush
• Bicknell's thrush
• black-throated thrush
• brown thrush (Toxostoma rufum)
• clay-colored thrush
• dusky thrush
• eyebrowed thrush
• great thrush (Turdus fuscater)
• ground thrush (Pittidae spp.)
• hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus)
• jay thrush (Leiothrichidae spp.)
• Kurrichane thrush (Turdus libonyanus)
• laughingthrush (Leiothrichidae)
• migratory thrush (Turdus migratorius)
• mimic thrush
• missel thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• mistletoe thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• mocking thrush (Harporhynchus rufus)
• mountain thrush (Turdus plebejus)
• native thrush (Pachycephala olivacea)
• Naumann's thrush (Turdus naumanni)
• nightingale-thrush
• olive-backed thrush (Hylocichla ustulata)
• pale thrush (Turdus pallidus)
• quail-thrush
• red-throated thrush
• reed thrush
• ring thrush (Turdus torquatus)
• rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
• running thrush
• russet-backed thrush
• scaly thrush
• screech thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• shrikethrush
• Siberian thrush
• song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
• squawking thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
• Swainson's thrush
• tawny thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
• thrushlike
• thrushling
• thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)
• thrush-tanager
• tit thrush (Suthora spp. etc.)
• true thrush (Turdus spp.)
• varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius)
• water thrush, waterthrush (Parkesia spp.)
• whistling thrush (Myophonus spp.)
• White's thrush (Zoothera aurea)
• willow thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
• Wilson's thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
• wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
• wrenthrush (Zeledonia coronata)

Translations

one of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae

• Afrikaans: lyster
• Arabic: دُجّ (dujj)
• Armenian: կեռնեխ (hy) (keṙnex)
• Aromanian: sturdzu m, strudz m
• Asturian: malvís (ast), tordu (ast), zarzal (ast)
• Belarusian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Bulgarian: дрозд (bg) m (drozd)
• Catalan: tord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鶇 / 鸫 (zh) (dōng)

• Cornish: molgh f
• Czech: drozd (cs) m

  Old Czech: drozd m

• Danish: drossel (da) c
• Dutch: lijster (nl) f
• Esperanto: turdo (eo)
• Estonian: rästas (et)
• Faroese: trøstur m
• Finnish: rastas (fi)
• French: grive (fr) m
• Friulian: dordei m
• Galician: arnelo m, chalra f, malvís m, tordo m
• Georgian: შაშვი (šašvi)
• German: Drossel (de) f
• Greek: τσίχλα (el) f (tsíchla)

  Ancient Greek: κίχλη f (kíkhlē)

• Hebrew: קִיכְלִי (he) m (qichlí)
• Hungarian: rigó (hu)
• Icelandic: þröstur (is) m
• Ido: turdo (io)
• Interlingua: turdo
• Irish: smólach m
• Italian: tordo (it) m
• Japanese: 鶇 (ja) (ツグミ, tsugumi)
• Kashubian: drózd m, drosel m
• Korean: 지빠귀 (jippagwi)
• Latgalian: strods m
• Latin: turdus m
• Latvian: strazds
• Laz: ზესკუ (zesǩu), მზესკუ (mzesǩu), მზესქუ (mzesku), ზემსკუ (zemsǩu), ზემსქუ (zemsku)
• Lithuanian: strãzdas (lt) m
• Low German: Liester m, Drossel f
• Luxembourgish: Dréischel f
• Macedonian: дрозд m (drozd)
• Mazanderani: تیکا (tikâ)
• Mingrelian: ზესკვი (zesḳvi), ზესქვი (zeskvi)
• Neapolitan: marvizzo m
• Norman: graïve m (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trost (no) m

  Nynorsk: trast m or f, trost m or f

• Occitan: tordre (oc), tord m
• Old Norse: þrǫstr m
• Polish: drozd (pl) m
• Portuguese: tordo (pt) m (chiefly Portugal), sabiá (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: sturz (ro) m
• Russian: дрозд (ru) m (drozd)
• Scottish Gaelic: smeòrach f
• Serbo-Croatian: drȍzd (sh) m, drozak (sh), дрозд m, дрозак m
• Sicilian: turdu (scn) m
• Silesian: drōzd m
• Slovak: drozd (sk) m

  Old Slovak: drozd m

• Slovene: drozg (sl) m
• Slovincian: drôsla f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drozna f

• Spanish: tordo (es) m, mirlo (es) m, zorzal (es) m
• Swedish: trast (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipit-tulog
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: آردج قوشی (ardıç kuşu)

• Ukrainian: дрізд m (drizd)
• Venetan: tordo m
• Volapük: turd
• Welsh: bronfraith (cy) f
• Yiddish: דראָסל m (drosl)
• Zulu: umunswi class 3/4

woman who sings popular songs

• Finnish: laulajatar (fi)
• Russian: певи́чка (ru) f (pevíčka)

References

• thrush on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turdidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Turdidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Uncertain, though likely not related to the "bird" sense of Etymology 1; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish torsk, Norwegian trøske. Perhaps also related to Old French fourchette (“frog of a horse's hoof”).

Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)

1. A fungal infection caused by species of genus Candida, affecting the mouth or vagina; candidiasis.
   • 1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “AIDS Redefined In 1992?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 6:

     Cervical cancer and recurrent vaginal thrush are both strongly linked to the presence of HIV in women.

Synonyms

• candidiasis

Derived terms

• oral thrush
• thrushlike

Translations

fungal infection — see also candidiasis

• Breton: borb m
• Bulgarian: млечница f (mlečnica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 念珠菌症 (niànzhūjūnzhèng)

• Czech: kandidóza (cs) f, poševní kvasinková infekce f
• Danish: trøske
• Dutch: spruw (nl) f
• Faroese: trøska f
• Finnish: hiivasienitulehdus (fi)
• French: (general) muguet (fr) m, (vaginal) mycose vaginale f
• German: Soor (de) m, Soormykose f, (in horses) Strahlfäule f
• Greek: άφτρα (el) f (áftra)
• Hungarian: (oral) szájpenész (hu), (vaginal) hüvelygomba (hu), (either) candida-fertőzés
• Irish: salachar béil m
• Italian: mughetto (it) m, candida (it) f, candidosi (it) f
• Macedonian: соор (soor)
• Polish: (oral) pleśniawka f, (vaginal) drożdżyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: sapinhos m pl, cândida (pt) f
• Russian: моло́чница (ru) f (molóčnica), кандидо́з (ru) m (kandidóz)
• Serbo-Croatian: kandidijaza (sh), soor
• Slovak: kandidóza f
• Spanish: (oral) sapito m, algodoncillo (es) m
• Swedish: torsk (sv)
• Turkish: kandidiyaz (tr), kandidoz (tr)
• Welsh: llindag m, gân m or f, (in horses) trysgli f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mullenjë (sq) f
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} turd, ^{(please verify)} musigaturd

See also

• candida
• turdiform

References

• “*thrush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.