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Image:Passer_domesticus3.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|A male sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Image:House sparrow04.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|A female sparrow (Passer domesticus)

Etymology
OE. spearwa

Pronunciation
IPA|/�spæɹ��/
audio|en-us-sparrow.ogg|Audio (US)

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ær��|-ær��

Noun
en-noun

1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprised of small Old World song birds.
3. A member of the family Emberizidae, comprised of small New World song birds.
4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.

Derived terms
sparrowhawk
house sparrow
tree sparrow

Translations

Albanian: harabeli
Basque: txolarre
Belarusian: ве�абей
Bosnian: t-|bs|vrabac|m
Breton: golvan
Bulgarian: в�аб�е (vrab�e)
Catalan: pardal m
CJKV Characters: �
Chinese: 麻� (máquè)
Croatian: t-|hr|vrabac
Czech: t-|cs|vrabec|m
Danish: spurv (gråspurv)
Dutch: mus f, huismus f
Esperanto: t-|eo|pasero|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: varblane, koduvarblane
Faroese: t-|fo|spurvur|xsFaroese, t-|fo|gráspurvur|xsFaroese
Finnish: t+|fi|varpunen
French: moineau m
Frisian: mosk
Friulian: passare
Galician: pardal, gorrión
German: t+|de|Sperling|m, t+|de|Spatz|m
Greek: ��ο��γί�η� m
Hebrew: �ר�ר (dror)
Hindi: ��र�या (gauraiyaa)
Hungarian: t+|hu|veréb
Icelandic: spör (gráspör)
Interlingua: passere
Irish: gealbhan
Italian: t+|it|passero|m
Japanese: � (���, suzume)
Korean: 참� (chamsae)
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Kurdish: KUchar|�����ک��, KUchar|پاسار�
Ladin: spoz
Latin: Passer, Passer domesticus
Latvian: zvirbulis m
Lithuanian: žvirblis m; žvirbl� f
Lower Sorbian: wrobel
Low Saxon: Lünink, Lünk, Lüüntje m, Dackfink m
Macedonian: в�абе� (vrabec)
Maltese: għasfur tal-bejt
Norwegian: spurv, gråspurv m
Occitan: passerat
Polish: wróbel m
Portuguese: pardal m
Romanian: t+|ro|vrabie
Romansh: pasler
Romany: chirikloro m, chirikliori f
Russian: t+|ru|во�обей|m|trvorobéj|scCyrl
Sami: cihci (Å¡illjocihci)
Sardinian (northern): furfurinu, fruffurarzu, bulfurarju m
Sardinian (southern): crucculeu, gruccùcciu m
Scottish Gaelic: gealbhonn
Serbian: в�аба� (vrabac)
Slovak: t-|sk|vrabec
Slovenian: vrabec m
Spanish: gorrión m
Swedish: sparv (gråsparv)
Telugu: t|te|పి�����|sc=Telu (pichchuka)
Turkish: serçe
Ukrainian: го�обе�� (gorobets�)
Upper Sorbian: wrobl, wroblik
Vietnamese: t+|vi|sẻ|xsVietnamese, t-|vi|chim sẻ|xsVietnamese
Volapük: spär
Welsh: t-|cy|aderyn|xs=Welsh

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• 2007-12-17 18:46 - Tbot - updated t/t-/t+ templates, added t for bs, hr, cs, eo, fo, fi, de, hu, it, ro, ru, sk, vi, cy

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