Passage: Masanin ilimin kimiyyar tsuntsaye na Jamus Christian Ludwig Brehm ya bayyana waƙar waƙa a cikin 1831, kuma har yanzu yana ɗauke da asalin sunan kimiyya, Turdus philomelos. Sunan gama gari, Turdus, shine Latin don thrush, kuma takamaiman epithet yana nufin hali a cikin tatsuniyoyin Girka, Philomela, wanda ya yanke harshenta, amma an canza shi zuwa tsuntsu mai raira waƙa. Sunanta ya samo asali ne daga tsohuwar Girkanci Φιλο philo- (mai ƙauna), da μέλος melos (waƙa). Sunan lafazi throstle da mavis duka suna nufin thrush, suna da alaƙa da drossel na Jamusanci da Faransanci mavis.
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