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Crebain were a species of large black, crow-like birds native to both Dunland and Fangorn Forest in Middle-earth, that Saruman the White in Isengard used as spies after he joined forces with Sauron.
Characteristics[]
Crebain as depicted by an unknown artist
Crebain were known to fly in large flocks resembling a huge black cloud and a big shadow cast below them. They made a horrible croaking, squawking noise when in flight, making their presence known to anyone nearby.
Like crows and ravens, they seemed to possess at least some intelligence, though are not known to have spoken in familiar tongues. In the War of the Ring, flocks of Crebain were used by Saruman as spies to search for Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship, since he sought the One Ring.[citation needed]
Etymology[]
Crebain, "crows", would be the regular plural of Sindarin craban, "crow," a word which (while unattested) seems to have been adopted by Tolkien from Indo-European languages, particularly a pre-Germanic form *krabn-, whence the proto-Germanic *hrabnaz, from which descended both Old High German hraban and English raven.-
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | ክረባኢን |
| Arabic | كريباين |
| Armenian | Քրեբայն |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Кребаін |
| Bengali | করেবাইন |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Кребаин |
| Georgian | კრებენები |
| Greek | Κρεβαιν |
| Gujarati | ક્રેબેન |
| Hebrew | קרביין |
| Hindi | क्र्ऐब्ऐन |
| Japanese | クレバン |
| Kannada | ಕ್ರೆಬೇನ್ |
| Kazakh | Крэбаін (Cyrillic) Krébain (Latin) |
| Korean | 크레이 빈 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Крэбаин |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Кребаин |
| Marathi | क्रेबेन |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Кребайн |
| Nepalese | क्रेब्ऐन |
| Persian | کرپاین |
| Punjabi | ਕ੍ਰਬੇਨ |
| Russian | Кребайн |
| Serbian | Кребаин (Cyrillic) Krebain (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ක්රෙබ්න් |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Кребаин |
| Tamil | க்ரெபைன் |
| Telugu | క్రేబైన్ |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Кребейн |
| Urdu | کربین |
| Uzbek | Кребаин (Cyrillic) Krebain (Latin) |
| Yiddish | קרעבאַין |