English [edit]
Wikipedia
Etymology [edit]
fire + fly
firefly (plural fireflies)
- A nocturnal, bioluminescent beetle of the family Lampyridae.
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
beetle
- Albanian: xixëllonjë (sq) f
- Arabic: يراعة (ar) (yarāʿa) f
- Armenian: լուսատտիկ (hy) (lusattik) (lusattik)
- Basque: euli ipurtargi
- Belarusian: светляк (be) (svetlják) m
- Bulgarian: светулка (bg) (svetulka) f
- Chamicuro: puulo
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 螢火蟲, 萤火虫 (jing4 fo2 cung4)
- Mandarin: 螢火蟲 (cmn), 萤火虫 (cmn) (yínghuǒchóng)
- Czech: světluška (cs) f
- Danish: ildflue (da) c
- Dutch: glimworm (nl) m, vuurvlieg (nl) m and f
- Esperanto: fulgoro (eo)
- Finnish: kiiltomato (fi), tulikärpänen (fi)
- French: luciole (fr) f
- Galician: vagalume (gl) m
- Georgian: ციცინათელა (ka) (c'ic'inat'ela)
- German: Glühwürmchen (de) n, Leuchtkäfer (de) m
- Greek: πυγολαμπίδα (el) (pygolampída) f, (colloquial) κωλοφωτιά (el) (kolofotiá) f
- Guaraní: muã (gn)
- Icelandic: eldfluga (is) f, blysbjalla (is) f, glætufluga (is) f, glóbjalla (is) f, ljósormur (is) m
- Italian: lucciola (it) f
- Japanese: 蛍 (ja) (ほたる, hotaru), ホタル (ja) (hotaru)
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