English[edit]
Wikipedia
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English amte, amete, from Old English ǣmette (“ant”), from Proto-Germanic *ēmaitijǭ (“ant”, literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.
Pronunciation[edit]
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
- (Internet) A Web spider
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
insect
- Abkhaz: ашышкамс (āšəšḳāms)
- Adyghe: къамзэгу (qāmzăg°)
- Afrikaans: mier
- Albanian: milingonë f
- Alviri-Vidari: مورچانه (murčāne) (Vidari)
- Amharic: ጉንዳን (gunədan)
- Amuzgo: kíxjáⁿ
- Arabic: (collective) نمل (naml), نملة f (námla) (singulative)
- Aragonese: fornica f
- Armenian: մրջյուն (mrǰyun)
- Old Armenian: մրջիւն (mrǰiwn)
- Aromanian: furnigã
- Arrernte:
- Eastern Arrernte: yerre
- Western Arrernte: yerre
- Asturian: formiga f
- Avar: цӏунцӏра (c̣unc̣ra)
- Aymara: k'isimira, qanlli
- Azeri: qarışqa (az)
- Baluchi: مور (mor), مورینک (morínk)
- Bashkir: ҡырмыҫҡа (qïrmïθqa)
- Basque: inurri (eu), txingurri (eu)
- Belarusian: мура́шка f (muráška)
- Bengali: পিঁপড়া (pim̐paṛā)
- Bodo (India): मोस्रोम (mosrom)
- Breton: merienenn (br) f (collective, merien (br))
- Bulgarian: мра́вка (bg) f (mrávka)
- Burmese: ပုရွက်ဆိတ် (my) (pu.rwak-hcit)
- Catalan: formiga (ca) f
- Chamicuro: añalo
- Chechen: зингат (zingat)
- Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ (dosvdali)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 螞蟻, 蚂蚁 (zh) (mǎyǐ)
- Chuvash: кӑткӑ (kătkă)
- Cornish: moryon (collective), moryonenn f
- Crimean Tatar: qırmısqa
- Czech: mravenec (cs) m
- Dalmatian: formaica f
- Danish: myre (da) c
- Dhuwal: gälkal
- Dieri: mirrka
- Dimasa: kaising
- Dutch: mier (nl) f
- Erzya: коткудав (kotkudav)
- Esperanto: formiko
- Estonian: sipelgas
- Ewe: anyidi
- Faroese: meyra
- Fijian: qasikalolo
- Finnish: muurahainen (fi)
- French: fourmi (fr) f
- Friulian: furmie f, furmìe f
- Ga: tsatsu, gaga
- Galician: formiga f
- Georgian: ჭიანჭველა (ka) (čiančvela)
- German: Ameise (de) f
- Gooniyandi: migi
- Greek: μυρμήγκι (el) n (myrmígki), μερμήγκι (el) n (mermígki)
- Ancient: μύρμηγξ m (murmēnks), μύρμηξ m (murmēks)
- Guaraní: tahýi, tahýi
- Gujarati: કીડી (keedee)
- Hausa: gara
- Hawaiian: naonao
- Hebrew: נמלה (he) f (nemala)
- Hindi: चींटी f (cīṇṭī), चिऊँटी f (ci'ūṇṭī)
- Hmar: phaivang
- Hungarian: hangya (hu)
- Icelandic: maur (is) m
- Ilocano: kutón
- Indonesian: semut (id)
- Interlingua: formica
- Irish: seangán (ga) m
- Isthmus Zapotec: birí
- Italian: formica (it) f
- Japanese: 蟻 (ja) (あり, arí), アリ (arí)
- Javanese: semut
- Jèrriais: freunmion m, frémîn m
- Kannada: ಇರುವೆ (kn) (iruve)
- Kapampangan: panas
- Kaurna: kadngi
- Kazakh: құмырсқа (qumırsqa)
- Khmer: ស្រមោច (km) (srə-məoch)
- Kikai: 蟻 (あーにー, aanii)
- Korean: 개미 (ko) (gaemi)
- Kuna: sichir
- Kurdish: mûrî (ku), mêrî (ku), gêrik (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кумурска (ky) (kumurska)
- Lamkang: phaivang
- Lao: ມົດ (mot)
- Latgalian: skudre f, skutele f
- Latin: formica (la) f
- Latvian: skudra f
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- Lithuanian: skruzdėlė f, skruzdė f
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: miegamp (Sallands)
- Luxembourgish: Seechomes f, Seejomes f
- Macedonian: мра́вка f (mrávka)
- Malay: semut
- Malayalam: ഉറുമ്പ് (ml) (urumpu)
- Maltese: nemla f
- Manx: sniengan f
- Maori: pokopokorua, pokorua, rōroro
- Marathi: मुंगी (mr) (mungī)
- Mazanderani: ملیجه
- Meriam: izrum
- Mizo: fanghmir
- Moksha: панжам (panžam)
- Mongolian: шоргоолж (šorgoolž)
- Nahuatl: azcatl (nah)
- Navajo: wóláchííʼ
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Newari: इमू (imū)
- North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) mir n
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 蟻 (あみ, ami)
- Norwegian: maur (no)
- Nyunga: budjin, burdak, dhudula, karrart, kwelka
- Occitan: formiga (oc) f
- Oki-No-Erabu: 蟻 (あに, ani)
- Okinawan: 蟻 (あい, ai)
- Old English: ǣmette f
- Ossetian: мӕлдзыг (mælʒyg)
- Persian: مورچه (fa) (murče), مور (fa) (mur)
- Pichinglis: nyɔní
- Pitjantjatjara: minga
- Polish: mrówka (pl) f
- Portuguese: formiga (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਕੀੜੀ (kīṛī)
- Quechua: sisi
- Romanian: furnică (ro) f
- Romansch: furmicla f
- Russian: мураве́й (ru) m (muravéj), (colloquial) мура́шка (ru) f (muráška)
- Samoan: loi
- Sanskrit: पिपीलिका (pipīlikā)
- Santali: ᱢᱩᱡ (muc')
- Sardinian: formíca
- Scottish Gaelic: seangan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мрав m
- Roman: mrav m
- Sicilian: furmicula (scn) f, fummicula (scn) f
- Sinhalese: කුහුඹුවා (si) (kuhum̆buvā)
- Slovak: mravec m
- Slovene: mravlja (sl) f
- Somali: qudhaanjo, quraansho
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mroja f
- Upper Sorbian: mrowja f
- Sotho: lerwana (st)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 蟻 (あみ, ami)
- Spanish: hormiga (es) f
- Swahili: sisimizi class 9/10, mchwa (sw)
- Swedish: myra (sv), pissmyra (sv) c
- Tagalog: langgam (tl)
- Tajik: мӯрча (tg) (mürča), мӯр (mür)
- Tamil: எறும்பு (ta) (erumpu)
- Taos: į̏ęmę̀ki’ína
- Tatar: кырмыска (tt) (qırmısqa)
- Telugu: చీమ (te) (cīm)
- Thai: มด (mod)
- Tibetan: གྲོག་མ (grog ma)
- Tigrinya: ጻሰ (ṣasä)
- Tongan: lô
- Torres Strait Creole: anis
- Turkish: karınca (tr)
- Turkmen: garynja
- Tuvan: кымыскаяк (kymyskajak)
- Udmurt: кузьыли (kuzʹyli)
- Ukrainian: мура́шка f (muráška), мура́ха f (muráxa)
- Urdu: چینٹی f (cīṇṭī), چیونٹی f (ci'ūṇṭī)
- Uyghur: چۈمۈلە (chümüle)
- Uzbek: chumoli
- Venetian: formìga f
- Vietnamese: kiến (vi)
- Volapük: furmid (vo)
- Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa: piipuru
- Waray-Waray: tubák
- Warlpiri: pingi
- Welsh: (collective) morgrug m pl, (singulative) morgrugyn m
- West Frisian: miammel
- Wik-Mungkan: moolan
- Wiradhuri: dhuurruuy
- Wolof: melentaan
- Yakut: кымырдаҕас (kımırdağas)
- Yiddish: מוראַשקע f (murashke)
- Yindjibarndi: waruma
- Yonaguni: 蟻 (あや, aya)
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See also[edit]
ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
- (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
- 1974 April 23, “Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds”, The Auk, volume 91, page 538:
- Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.
Anagrams[edit]
ant m
- furrow
Catalan[edit]
ant m (plural ants)
- elk, moose
Crimean Tatar[edit]
ant
- oath
Declension[edit]
Declension of ant
| nominative |
ant |
| genitive |
antnıñ |
| dative |
antqa |
| accusative |
antnı |
| locative |
antta |
| ablative |
anttan |
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French entre (“between”).
Preposition[edit]
ant
- between
Lithuanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
añt (with genitive)
- on
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Turkic ant, from Proto-Turkic *Ānt (“oath”).
ant
- oath
Synonyms[edit]
