flyswatter

See also: fly swatter

English

Alternative forms

• fly swatter, fly-swatter

Etymology

From fly +‎ swatter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

flyswatter (plural flyswatters)

1. A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.

Translations

device for swatting flies

• Armenian: ճանճասպան (hy) (čančaspan)
• Belarusian: мухабо́йка f (muxabójka)
• Bulgarian: мухого́нка f (muhogónka)
• Catalan: matamosques m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 烏蠅拍／乌蝇拍 (wu¹ jing^4-1 paak^3-2)

  Hokkien: 胡蠅拍仔／胡蝇拍仔 (zh-min-nan) (hô͘-sîn-phah-á)

  Mandarin: 蒼蠅拍／苍蝇拍 (zh) (cāngyingpāi), 蒼蠅拍子／苍蝇拍子 (zh) (cāngying pāizi), 蠅拍／蝇拍 (zh) (yíngpāi)

• Danish: fluesmækker (da) c
• Dutch: vliegenmepper (nl) c
• Esperanto: muŝbatilo
• Estonian: kärbsepiits (et)
• Finnish: kärpäslätkä (fi)
• French: tapette (fr) f, tapette à mouches (fr) f
• German: Fliegenklatsche (de) f, Fliegenpracker m (Austrian German)

  Alemannic German: Muggedätscher

• Greek: μυγοσκοτώστρα (el) f (mygoskotóstra)
• Hungarian: légycsapó (hu)
• Hunsrik: Mickeflatsch m
• Icelandic: flugnaspaði m
• Irish: smiotán m
• Italian: scacciamosche m, cacciamosche m
• Japanese: 蝿叩き (ja) (はえたたき, haetataki)
• Korean: 파리채 (ko) (parichae)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مێشکوژ (mêşkuj)

• Latin: muscārium n
• Maori: papakirango, paturango
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ялааны алуур (jalaany aluur)

  Mongolian: ᠢᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠤ
  ᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤᠷ (ilaɣan-u alaɣur)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fluesmekke m or f, fluesmekker m

  Nynorsk: flugesmekkar m, flugesmekke f

• Ottoman Turkish: سیڭكلك (sineklik)
• Polish: packa (pl) f
• Portuguese: matamoscas m
• Romanian: paletă de muște f, plici (ro) n
• Russian: мухобо́йка (ru) f (muxobójka), хлопу́шка (ru) f (xlopúška) (для мух)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мухомлат m, мухоклепац m, клепац m

  Roman: muhomlat m, muhoklepac m, klepac (sh) m, muholovka (sh) f

• Spanish: matamoscas (es) m
• Swedish: flugsmälla (sv) c
• Turkish: sineklik (tr)
• Ukrainian: мухобі́йка f (muxobíjka)
• Volapük: musakiflapöm
• Welsh: swadiwr pryfed m