noun
Refers to eagles in general, especially members of the Accipitridae family. Often written in katakana in modern Japanese.
ワシが空高く舞っている。
An eagle is soaring high in the sky.
ワシは大きな獲物を捕まえた。
The eagle caught a large prey.
The word わし is native Japanese. The kanji 鷲 is a phono-semantic compound: 鳥 (bird) + 就 (settle, perch), though the exact historical derivation is uncertain.