nightingale

FREQ #11330

n. 夜莺

发音

US /ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/

词形变化

nightingales 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A Eurasian and African songbird, Luscinia megarhynchos, family Muscicapidae, famed for its beautiful singing at night; a common nightingale.

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  2. 1.

    A kind of flannel scarf with sleeves, formerly worn by invalids when sitting up in bed.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

thrush

下位词 1

bulbul

相关短语

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词源

Inherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā (“nightingale”), equivalent to a compound of night + gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“thrush nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”).

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