brolga

English

brolga (Antigone rubicunda)

Etymology

From Gamilaraay burralga.

Noun

brolga (plural brolgas)

1. A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia. [from 19th c.]
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 90:

     But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […] .

   • 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241:

     We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.

Synonyms

• Australian crane, native companion

Translations

an Australian crane

• Australian Kriol: brolga
• Bandjalang: gilgil, muralman
• Bengali: ব্রল্গা (brolga)
• Darkinjung: balga
• Dharug: dyuralya
• Dieri: purrhalka
• Dutch: brolgakraanvogel (nl)
• Finnish: australiankurki (fi)
• French: grue brolga (fr) f
• Gagadu: djamarrabarday
• Gamilaraay: burralga
• German: Brolgakranich m
• Gooniyandi: goorralga
• Guugu Yimidhirr: gurrbal
• Hawaiian: kiulalia
• Limilngan: lurrilyarr
• Murrinh-Patha: kulerrkkurrk
• Navajo: Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ déłí
• Russian: австрали́йский жура́вль m (avstralíjskij žurávlʹ)
• Swedish: brolgatrana c
• Tiwi: jilarti, jilati, jilartinga, jilaringa
• Wardaman: bornorron
• Wemba-Wemba: kuthun
• Wik-Mungkan: minh korʼ
• Wiradjuri: buurralgang
• Yindjibarndi: yarnkarra

Further reading

• brolga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Antigone rubicunda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Barlog, Bolgar, Bolğar, balrog, globar

Australian Kriol

Noun

brolga

1. brolga