köken: From Middle High German iule, iuwel, from Old High German ūwila, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *uwwalǭ (compare Dutch uil, West Frisian ûle, English owl), diminutive of *uwwǭ ‘eagle-owl’ (compare German Uhu), of imitative origin or a variant of *ūfaz, *ūfǭ (compare Swedish uv ‘horned owl’, Bavarian Auf), from Proto-Indo-European *up-.
köken: Unknown. Possibly from Late Latin curusa or of onomatopoetic origin. Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Leonese curuxa, Mirandese queruja and Spanish coruja, curuja.
αρπακτικό πουλί, νυκτόβιο, με σκούρο φτέρωμα, το οποίο έχει ραβδώσεις, στρογγυλό και πλατύ κεφάλι και μεγάλα μάτια με έντονο βλέμμα
çekim: çoğul κουκουβάγιες · tamlayan κουκουβάγιας
eş: γλαύκα
köken: Probably of onomatopoeic origin; similar words seem to be found in other regional languages: compare Bulgarian кукумявка (kukumjavka), Albanian kukuvajkë, Italian coccoveggia, Ladino kukuvaya, Romanian cucuvea.
owl (with ear tufts) · great horned owl, long eared owl
köken: Equivalent to 부엉 (bueong, “hoot”, onomatopoeia) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix). First attested as Middle Korean 부〮허ᇰ (pwúhèng) in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 29a, 1446, without the suffix. With the suffix, first attested as Early Modern Korean 부헝이 (pwuhengi) in the Yeogeoyuhae (譯語類解 / 역어유해), 下:27b, 1690.