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Raven
English
Pronunciation
Noun
raven (plural: ravens )
- A large black bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger.
- Rapine ; rapacity .
- Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Scientific name
Translations
- Albanian: korbi
- Basque: erroi
- Belarusian: крумкач
- Bosnian: gavran m
- Breton: marc’hvran
- Bulgarian: гарван (garvan)
- Catalan: corb m
- Croatian: gavran
- Czech: krkavec
- Danish: ravn
- Dutch: raaf m
- Esperanto: korvo , korako
- Estonian: kaaren , ronk , korp
- Faroese: ravnur
- Finnish: korppi
- French: corbeau m
- Frisian: raven
- Friulian: corvat
- Galician: corvo carnazal
- German: Kolkrabe m, Rabe m
- Greek, Ancient: κόραξ (korax)
- Greek, Modern: κοράκι (koraki)
- Hebrew: עורב
- Hungarian: holló
- Icelandic: hrafn , hrafn krummi
- Indonesian: gagak besar
- Irish: fiach dubh
- Italian: corvo
- Japanese: 渡り鴉 (ワタリガラス , watari-garasu), 大鴉 (オオガラス , oo-garasu)
- Latin: corvus m
- Ladin: corf
- Latvian: krauklis
- Lithuanian: kranklys m
- Lower Sorbian: wron , rapak
- Macedonian: гавран (gavran)
- Maltese: għarab
- Norwegian: ravn
- Occitan: còrb
- Polish: kruk
- Portuguese: corvo
- Romanian: corb
- Romansh: corv grond
- Romany: kakarachi m, kakarachka f
- Russian: ворон (voron)
- Sami: gáranas , bulddogas , garjá
- Sardinian: tivani , crobu , crà , corvai , corbittu
- Scottish: fitheach
- Serbian: гавран (gavran)
- Slovak: havran m, krkavec m
- Slovene: krokar m, vran m (poetically)
- Spanish: cuervo m
- Swedish: korp
- Turkish: kuzgun
- Ukrainian: ворон (voron), крук (kruk)
- Upper Sorbian: rapak
- Welsh: cigfran
Adjective
raven
- Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
Verb
to raven
- To obtain or seize by violence.
- To devour with great eagerness .
- To prey with rapacity ; to be greedy; to show rapacity .
Further reading
- Wikipedia article about ravens
Dutch
Noun
raven m, pl
- Plural of raaf
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