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Wikipedia
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English amte, amete, from Old English ǣmette (“ant”), from Proto-Germanic *ēmaitijō (“ant”, literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitanan (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
[edit] Pronunciation
ant (plural ants)
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females
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[edit] Translations
insect
- Afrikaans: mier (af)
- Albanian: milingonë (sq) f.
- Amuzgo: kíxjáⁿ
- Arabic: (collective) نمل (ar) (naml), نملة (ar) (námla) f. (singulative)
- Aragonese: fornica f.
- Armenian: մրջյուն (hy) (mrǰyun)
- Old Armenian: մրջիւն (mrǰiwn)
- Aromanian: furnigã
- Azeri: qarışqa (az)
- Basque: inurri, txingurri (eu)
- Belarusian: мурашка (be) (muráška) f.
- Bengali: পিঁপড়া (bn) (pim̐paṛā)
- Breton: merienenn f. sg. (collective, merien)
- Bulgarian: мравка (bg) (mrávka) f.
- Burmese: ပုရွက်ဆိတ် (my) (pa̱jwe' hsei' pəyweʔ sʰeiʔ)
- Catalan: formiga f.
- Chamicuro: añalo
- Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ (dosvdali)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 螞蟻 (cmn), 蚂蚁 (cmn) (mǎyǐ)
- Cornish: moryon (collective), moryonenn f. sg.
- Crimean Tatar: qırmısqa
- Czech: mravenec (cs) m.
- Danish: myre (da) c.
- Dhuwal: gälkal
- Dieri: mirrka
- Dutch: mier (nl) f.
- Erzya: коткудав (kotkudav)
- Esperanto: formiko (eo)
- Estonian: sipelgas (et)
- Ewe: anyidi
- Faroese: meyra (fo)
- Fernando Po Creole English: nyɔní
- Finnish: muurahainen (fi)
- French: fourmi (fr) f.
- Ga: tsatsu, gaga
- Georgian: ჭიანჭველა (ka) (čiančvela)
- German: Ameise (de) f.
- Gooniyandi: migi
- Greek: μυρμήγκι (el) (mirmigi) n., μερμήγκι (el) (mermigi) n.
- Ancient: μύρμηγξ (mirmigs) m., μύρμηξ (mirmix) m.
- Guaraní: tahýi
- Hebrew: נמלה (he) (nemala) f.
- Hindi: चींटी (hi) (cīṇṭī) f., चिऊँटी (hi) (ci'ūṇṭī) f.
- Hungarian: hangya (hu)
- Icelandic: maur (is) m.
- Indonesian: semut (id)
- Interlingua: formica
- Irish: seangán (ga) m.
- Isthmus Zapotec: birí
- Italian: formica (it) f.
- Japanese: 蟻 (ja) (あり, arí), アリ (ja) (arí)
- Javanese: semut (jv)
- Kannada: ಇರುವೆ (kn) (iruve)
- Kaurna: kadngi
- Kazakh: құмырсқа (kk) (qumırsqa)
- Khmer: ស្រមោច (km) (srə-məoch)
- Korean: 개미 (ko) (gaemi)
- Kuna: sichir
- Kurdish: mûrî (ku), mêrî (ku), gêrik (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кумурска (ky) (kumurska)
- Lao: ມົດ (lo) (mot)
- Latgalian: skudre f., skutele f.
- Latin: formica (la) f.
- Latvian: skudra (lv) f.
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- Lithuanian: skruzdėlė (lt) f., skruzdė (lt) f.
- Luxembourgish: Seechomes (lb) f., Seejomes (lb) f.
- Malayalam: ഉറുമ്പ് (ml) (urumpu)
- Maltese: nemla (mt) f.
- Manx: sniengan f.
- Maori: pokopokorua
- Marathi: मुंगी (mr) (mungī)
- Mazanderani: ملیجه
- Meriam: izrum
- Mongolian: шоргоолж (mn) (šorgoolž)
- Nahuatl: azcatl
- Navajo: wóláchííʼ
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: maur (no)
- Nyunga: budjin, burdak, dhudula, karrart, kwelka
- Old English: ǣmette (ang) f.
- Persian: مورچه (fa) (murče), مور (fa) (mur)
- Pitjantjatjara: minga
- Polish: mrówka (pl) f.
- Portuguese: formiga (pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਕੀੜੀ (pa) (kīṛī)
- Romanian: furnică (ro) f.
- Russian: муравей (ru) (muravéj) m., (colloquial) мурашка (ru) (muráška) f.
- Samoan: loi (sm)
- Sanskrit: पिपीलिका (sa) (pipīlikā)
- Santali: ᱢᱩᱡ (muc')
- Scottish Gaelic: seangan m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мрав (sh) m.
- Roman: mrav (sh) m.
- Sicilian: furmicula f., fummicula f.
- Sinhalese: කුහුඹුවා (si) (kuhuṇ͡ḍuvā)
- Slovak: mravec (sk) m.
- Slovene: mravlja (sl) f.
- Sotho: lerwana (st)
- Spanish: hormiga (es) f.
- Swahili: sisimizi (sw) (nc 9/10), mchwa (sw)
- Swedish: myra (sv)
- Tagalog: langgam
- Tajik: мӯрча (tg) (mūrča), мӯр (tg) (mūr)
- Tamil: எறும்பு (ta) (erumpu)
- Taos: į̏ęmę̀ki’ína
- Tatar: кырмыска (tt) (qırmısqa)
- Telugu: చీమ (te) (cīm)
- Thai: มด (th) (mod)
- Tongan: lô (to)
- Torres Strait Creole: anis
- Turkish: karınca (tr)
- Turkmen: garynja (tk)
- Ukrainian: мурашка (uk) (muráška)
- Urdu: چینٹی (ur) (cīṇṭī) f., چیونٹی (ur) (ci'ūṇṭī) f.
- Uyghur: چۈمۈلە (ug)
- Uzbek: chumoli (uz)
- Venetian: formìga f.
- Vietnamese: kiến (vi)
- Volapük: furmid (vo)
- Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa: piipuru
- Warlpiri: pingi
- Welsh: morgrugyn (collective, morgrug)
- Wembawemba: tyilep-tyilep
- West Frisian: miammel
- Wik-Mungkan: moolan
- Wiradhuri: dhuurruuy
- Yiddish: מוראַשקע (yi) (murashke) f.
- Yindjibarndi: waruma
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[edit] See also
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Breton
ant m.
- furrow
[edit] Catalan
ant m. (plural ants)
- elk, moose
[edit] Crimean Tatar
ant
- oath
[edit] Declension
declension of ant
| nominative |
ant |
| genitive |
antnıñ |
| dative |
antqa |
| accusative |
antnı |
| locative |
antta |
| ablative |
anttan |
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] References
- Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]
[edit] Haitian Creole
[edit] Etymology
From French entre (“between”).
[edit] Preposition
ant
- between
[edit] Lithuanian
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Preposition
añt (with genitive)
- on
[edit] Turkish
[edit] Etymology
From Old Turkic ant, from Proto-Turkic *Ānt (“oath”).
ant
- oath
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Vilamovian
ant
- duck
