night owl

English

night owl (plural night owls)

(idiomatic) one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late

Afrikaans: naguil (af) (night owl), nagwolf (af) (night wolf), naglooper (night walker)
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 夜貓, 夜猫 (je⁶ maau¹), 夜遊神, 夜游神 (je⁶ jau⁴ san⁴), 夜鬼 (je⁶ gwai²)

Mandarin: 夜貓子 (zh), 夜猫子 (zh) (yè māozi)

Min Nan: 暗光鳥 (zh-min-nan), 暗光鸟 (zh-min-nan) (àm-kong-chiáu)
Danish: natteravn c
Dutch: nachtbraker (nl) m, avondmens (nl) m
Faroese: náttarravnur m
Finnish: yökyöpeli (fi), yöihminen, iltavirkku (fi)
French: couche-tard (fr) m or f, noctambule (fr) m or f, oiseau de nuit (fr) m
German: Nachteule (de) f, Nachtschwärmer (de) f, Nachtmensch (de) pl
Greek: νυχτερινός τύπος m (nychterinós týpos), νυχτοπούλι (el) m or f or n (nychtopoúli), ξενύχτης (el) m (xenýchtis)

Hungarian: éjjeli bagoly
Icelandic: nátthrafn m
Italian: nottambulo m, nottolone m
Japanese: 宵っ張り (よいっぱり, yoippari), 宵っぱり (よいっぱり, yoippari), 夜更かし (ja) (よふかし, yofukashi), 夜型 (よるがた, yorugata)
Polish: nocny marek (pl)
Portuguese: noctâmbulo m, noctívago (pt) m, coruja (pt) m or f
Russian: сова́ (ru) f (sová), полуно́чник (ru) m (polunóčnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ноћна птица

Latin: noćna ptica (sh)
Spanish: ave nocturna (es), noctámbulo (es) m, trasnochador (es) m, noctívago (es)
Swedish: nattuggla (sv) c

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