General names
This list should be regarded as being 'in beta'. Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Many Kazakh, Turkish, and Korean glosses are highly tentative. Comments and corrections welcome.
For the drongoes, Inner Mongolian sources give the names Жадат jadat 'having a lance/spear', Жадат хар jadat khar 'having lance/spear black', or Жадат хар шувуу jadat khar shuvuu 'having lance/spear black bird'. However, perhaps because the drongoes have only been recently listed in Mongolia itself, naturalists use the borrowed term Доронго doroŋgo.
Species names
SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN |
MONGOLIAN |
EAST ASIAN |
TURKIC |
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Latin |
English/Russian |
Mongolian |
Former & Other M |
Chinese (incl. Taiwan) |
Japanese |
Korean |
Kazakh |
Turkish |
Dicrurus macrocercus
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Black drongo
Черный дронго |
Хар доронго
khar doroŋgo
'black drongo' |
Inner Mongolia:
Жадат
jadat
'having a lance/spear'
Жадат хар
jadat khar
'having lance/spear black'
Жадат хар шувуу
jadat khar shuvuu
'having lance/spear black bird' |
黑卷尾
(黑卷尾)
hēi juǎn-wěi
'black curl-tail'
Taiwan:
(大卷尾)
大卷尾
dà juǎn-wěi
'large curl-tail' |
オウチュウ
(烏秋)
ōchū
'drongo' (written 'crow autumn' or 'black autumn') |
검은바람까마귀
geomeun-baram-kkamagwi
'black wind-crow' |
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