Raven

Table of contents

1 Pronunciation 2 Noun 2.1 Scientific name 2.2 Translations 3 Adjective 4 Verb 5 Further reading 6 Dutch 7 Noun

Pronunciation

1. A large black bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger.
2. Rapine; rapacity.
3. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

• Albanian: korbi
• Basque: erroi
• Belarusian: крумкач
• Breton: marc’hvran
• Bulgarian: гарван (garvan)
• Catalan: corb
• 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
• Gallegan: corvo carnazal
• German: Kolkrabe m, Rabe m
• Greek: κοράκι
• Hebrew: עורב
• Hungarian: holló
• Icelandic: 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)
• Ladin: corf
• Latvian: krauklis
• Lithuanian: kranklys
• 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, crŕ, corvai, corbittu
• Scottish: fitheach
• Serbian: гавран (gavran)
• Slovak: krkavec
• Slovenian: krokar
• Spanish: cuervo
• Swedish: korp
• Turkish: kuzgun
• Ukrainian: ворон (voron), крук (kruk)
• Upper Sorbian: rapak
• Welsh: cigfran

1. Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.

1. To obtain or seize by violence.
2. To devour with great eagerness.
3. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

Dutch

Noun