dragonfly

English

a dragonfly

Alternative forms

• dragon-fly

Etymology

From dragon +‎ fly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæɡənˌflaɪ/

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Noun

dragonfly (plural dragonflies)

1. An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.

Synonyms

• (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

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

• Anisoptera
• damselfly
• Odonata