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Definition for: quail

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English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

quail ( plural quails )

  1. Any of various small game birds of the family Phasianidae or of the family Odontophoridae .

Translations

  • Albanian: shkurta
  • Basque: galeper
  • Belarusian: перапелка
  • Binomial name: Coturnix coturnix
  • Bosnian: prepelica f
  • Breton: koailh
  • Bulgarian: пъдпъдък (pŭdpŭdŭk)
  • Catalan: guatlla f
  • Croatian: prepelica
  • Czech: křepelka
  • Danish: vagtel
  • Dutch: kwartel m , kwakkel m
  • Esperanto: koturno
  • Estonian: vutt
  • Faroese: vaktil
  • Finnish: viiriäinen
  • French: caille f , caille des blés f
  • Frisian: kwartel
  • Friulian: cuaie
  • Galician: paspallás
  • German: Wachtel f
  • Greek, Ancient: ὄρτυξ (ortyx) m
  • Greek, Modern: ορτύκι (ortiki)
  • Hungarian: fürj
  • Icelandic: kornhæna
  • Interlingua: qualia
  • Irish: gearg
  • Italian: quaglia f
  • Ladin: caia
  • Latin: coturnix f
  • Latvian: paipala
  • Lithuanian: putpelė
  • Lower Sorbian: paśpula
  • Macedonian: потполошка (potpološka)
  • Maltese: summiena
  • Norwegian: vaktel
  • Occitan: catla
  • O'odham: kakaicu (specifically, callipepla gambelii
  • Polish: przepiórka
  • Portuguese: codorniz f
  • Romanian: prepeliţa
  • Romansh: quacra, quaiglia
  • Romany: dropya f
  • Russian: перепел /p'érepel/ m .
  • Sami: goaktil
  • Sardinian: xrìcchibi, trepotès, cricchibì, guàgliulu, cualla
  • Scottish: gearradh-gort
  • Serbian: препелица (prepelica)
  • Slovak: prepelica f
  • Slovenian: prepelica f
  • Spanish: codorniz f
  • Swedish: vaktel
  • Turkish: bıldırcın
  • Ukrainian: перепел (perepel)
  • Upper Sorbian: pocpula
  • Volapük: kotur
  • Welsh: sofliar

Verb

quail

  1. To shrink or waver; to become fearful or doubtful.
    He quails at the sight of blood.

See Also

Other Translations for "quail"

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Morse Codequail
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Pig Latinailquay

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