snowy owl

English

Noun

A snowy owl

snowy owl (plural snowy owls)

1. A large, white, nomadic Arctic owl (Bubo scandiacus).

Synonyms

• arctic owl, great white owl, snowy; Nyctea scandiaca (dated)

Translations

large white owl

• Albanian: buf i dëborës m
• Azerbaijani: qütb bayquşu
• Bulgarian: полярна сова f (poljarna sova)
• Catalan: duc blanc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪鴞／雪鸮 (xuěxiāo), 白鴞／白鸮 (báixiāo)

• Danish: sneugle (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwuil (nl) m
• Esperanto: neĝostrigo
• Faroese: snjóugla m
• Finnish: tunturipöllö (fi)
• French: harfang (fr) m, harfang des neiges (fr) m
• German: Schneeeule f, Schnee-Eule f
• Greek: λευκή κουκουβάγια f (lefkí koukouvágia), αρκτική κουκουβάγια f (arktikí koukouvágia)
• Greenlandic: uppik
• Hebrew: לִילִית שֶׁלֶג f (lilít shéleg)
• Hungarian: hóbagoly (hu)
• Icelandic: snæugla (is) f
• Inuktitut: ᐅᒃᐱᒃ (okpik)
• Irish: ulchabhán sneachtúil m
• Italian: gufo delle nevi
• Japanese: 白梟 (shiro fukurō)
• Korean: 흰올빼미 (huinolppaemi)
• Navajo: hakʼaz néʼéshjaaʼ
• Polish: sowa śnieżna (pl) f
• Portuguese: coruja das neves f
• Russian: бе́лая сова́ f (bélaja sová), поля́рная сова́ f (poljárnaja sová)
• Scottish Gaelic: comhachag-bhàn f
• Spanish: búho nival m
• Swedish: fjälluggla (sv) c
• Turkish: kar baykuşu (tr)
• Vietnamese: cú tuyết
• Welsh: tylluan yr eira f

References

• snowy owl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bubo scandiacus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bubo scandiacus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons