English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From dragon fly
Pronunciation [ edit ] dragon fly plural dragonflies
An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera , having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.
Synonyms [ edit ]
( insect of infraorder Anisoptera ) : darner darning needle devil's darning needle dining needle ear sewer horse-stinger mosquito fly mosquito hawk needle skeeter hawk snake doctor snake feeder spindle
Translations [ edit ]
insect of the infraorder Anisoptera
Abkhaz: аӡахы́баа ( āʒāxə́bāā ) , амаҭхса́ ( āmātxsā́ )
Afrikaans: naaldekoker
Aklanon: tambibidli
Albanian: pilivesë (sq)
Arabic: يَعْسُوب (ar) m ( yaʿsūb )
Hijazi Arabic: يَعْسُوب m ( yaʿsūb )
Armenian: ճպուռ (hy) ( čpuṙ )
Asturian: aceitera f cortanarices m cortañarices m
Belarusian: страказа́ f ( strakazá )
Bengali: ফড়িং ( phôŗing )
Breton: (please verify ) nadoz-aer (br) f (please verify ) nadozioù-aer (br) pl
Bulgarian: во́дно ко́нче n ( vódno kónče )
Catalan: libèl·lula (ca) f cavall de serp (ca) m espiadimonis m tallanassos m teixidor m barratgina f
Cebuano: handanaw
Chechen: шайтӏанан дин ( šajṭanan din )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蜻蜓 ( cing1 ting4 )
Hakka: 揚尾仔 扬尾仔 ( yòng-mî-é )
Mandarin: 蜻蜓 (zh) ( qīngtíng ) , 丁丁貓兒 丁丁猫儿 ( díngdíngmáor ) ( Southwestern )
Min Nan: 田嬰 (zh-min-nan) , 田婴 ( chhân-eⁿ, chhân-iⁿ, chhân-ni, chhân-ne, iân-mi )
Czech: vážka (cs) f
Danish: guldsmed c
Dutch: libel (nl) f
Erzya: салмуксонь салы ( salmuksonʹ saly )
Esperanto: libelo (eo)
Estonian: kiil (et)
Faroese: gullsmiður m drekafluga f
Finnish: sudenkorento
French: libellule (fr) f
Galician: cabalo do demo (gl) m libélula f
Georgian: ჭრიჭინა (ka) ( č̣rič̣ina ) , ნემსიყლაპია ( nemsiq̇laṗia )
German: Libelle (de) f
Greek: λιβελλούλη f ( livelloúli ) , λιβελούλα (el) f ( liveloúla )
Guaraní: ñahatĩ
Hawaiian: pīnao
Hebrew: שפירית f ( shapirit )
Hiligaynon: tumbak-tumbak
Hindi: व्याध पतंग ( vyādh pataṅg )
Hungarian: szitakötő (hu)
Ido: libelulo (io)
Ilocano: tuwato simot-simot
Irish: snáthaid mhór f
Isthmus Zapotec: sumpirinisa xhumpirinisa
Italian: libellula (it) f
Japanese: 蜻蛉 (ja) ( とんぼ , tonbo)
Kalmyk: темәлҗрһн ( temäljrhn )
Kazakh: инелік ( ïnelik )
Khmer: កន្ទុំរុយ (km) ( kontom ruy )
Komi-Zyrian: юрси гусь ( jursi gusʹ )
Korean: 잠자리 (ko) ( jamjari )
Kurdish: zencere (ku)
Latgalian: spuorņs m
Latin: libellula (la) f
Latvian: spāre f
Lithuanian: laumžirgis (lt) m žirgelis m ( some species ) skėtė f ( some species ) strėlikė f
Luxembourgish: Libell f
Macedonian: водно конче n ( vodno konče )
Malagasy: angidina (mg)
Malay: capung pepatung
Malayalam: തുന്വി ( tunvi )
Maltese: debba tax-xitan f ħelikopter
Maori: kapowai kapowai uruururoroa kapowai
Navajo: tániilʼáí
Northern Kankanay: ayoyogan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: øyenstikker (no) m øyestikker m
Nynorsk: augestikkar m augnestikkar m
Persian: سنجاقک (fa) ( sanjâqak )
Polish: ważka (pl) f
Portuguese: libélula (pt) f
Romanian: libelulă (ro) f
Russian: стрекоза́ (ru) f ( strekozá )
Sanskrit: प्राचिका (sa) ( prācikā ) , प्राचिका (sa) ( prācikā )
Scottish Gaelic: tarbhan-nathrach m cuileag-lasrach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вилин коњиц m вилински коњиц m
Roman: vilin konjic (sh) m vilinski konjic (sh) m
Shor: сур
Skolt Sami: čuõškkvuâppai
Slovak: vážka (sk) f
Slovene: kačji pastir (sl) m
Spanish: libélula (es) f aguacil (es) m ( Argentina, Uruguay ) , pipilacha f ( Nicaragua )
Swedish: trollslända (sv)
Tagalog: tutubi
Tamil: தும்பி (ta) ( tumpi )
Telugu: తూనీగ (te) ( tūnīga )
Thai: แมลงปอ ( má-laeng-bpor )
Turkish: kızböceği (tr) , yusufçuk (tr)
Ukrainian: стрекоза́ f ( strekozá ) , ва́жка (uk) f ( vážka ) , ба́бка (uk) f ( bábka )
Vietnamese: chuồn chuồn (vi)
Volapük: libelul
Waray-Waray: tambuburay
Welsh: gwas y neidr m
Wolof: xund-xund
See also [ edit ] 
