English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse + fly.
Pronunciation[edit]
horsefly (plural horseflies)
- Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36:It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
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Translations[edit]
fly of the family Tabanidae
- Afrikaans: perdevlieg
- Arabic: نُعَرَة f (nuʕara)
- Archi: наӏкьу (nạkˡʼu)
- Armenian: մոզ (hy) (moz)
- Aromanian: davan m, tãun m, bumbar m, streclji f
- Assamese: ডাঁহ (dãh)
- Asturian: tabánido m
- Avar: никӏкӏ (nikkʼ)
- Azerbaijani: göyün
- Bashkir: күгәүен (kügəwen)
- Basque: ezpara
- Bavarian: Brejm
- Belarusian: сляпень m (sljapjenʹ)
- Bengali: ঘোড়া মাছি (ghōṛa machi)
- Breton: moui f (collective), mouienn f, boui f (collective), bouienn f
- Bulgarian: ко́нска муха́ f (kónska muhá)
- Catalan: tabànid m
- Cherokee: ᏓᎦᎦ (dagaga), ᏓᎹᎦ (damaga)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 虻 (mong4)
- Mandarin: 虻 (zh) (méng), 馬蠅／马蝇 (zh) (mǎying) (popular)
- Czech: ovád (cs) m
- Danish: klæg c
- Dutch: daas (nl) c, brems (nl) c, paardevlieg f, paardenhorzel (nl) c
- Esperanto: tabano (eo)
- Estonian: parm
- Faroese: kleggi m
- Finnish: paarma (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: tavan m
- French: taon (fr) m
- Friulian: tavan m
- Galician: moscardo (gl) m, mosca caíña (gl) f, tabardo (gl) m, tabán (gl) m
- Gamilaraay: baanduu
- Georgian: მაწუხელა (mac̣uxela)
- German: Bremse (de) f
- Greek: αλογόμυγα (el) f (alogómyga)
- Ancient: μύωψ m (múōps)
- Hebrew: זְבוּב הַסּוּס m (zvuv hasus)
- Hungarian: bögöly (hu)
- Icelandic: kleggi m
- Ido: tabano (io)
- Indonesian: pikat (id)
- Irish: creabhar m, creabhar capaill m
- Italian: tafano (it) m
- Japanese: 虻 (ja) (あぶ, abu)
- Kabyle: aggug
- Kannada: ತೊಣಚೆ (kn) (toṇace)
- Kazakh: сона (sona)
- Korean: 등에 (deung'e)
- Kyrgyz: көгөөн (kögöön)
- Latin: tabānus m
- Latvian: dundurs m
- Limburgish: sjeldaes (li), staekvleeg f
- Lithuanian: sparvos m
- Low German:
- German Low German: Bau (nds) m
- Luxembourgish: Beel f
- Macedonian: ко́њска му́ва f (kónjska múva)
- Malay: pikat (ms)
- Malayalam: പോന്ത (ml) (pōnta)
- Mapun: pikot
- Maranao: langaw
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: пормо (pormo)
- Western Mari: пармы (parmy)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хөх түрүү (xöx türüü)
- Navajo: tłʼézhii, łį́į́ʼ bitsísʼná
- Norman: taon m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: klegg m
- Nynorsk: klegg m
- Occitan: tavan (oc) m
- Old Norse: kleggi m
- Ottoman Turkish: آت سیڭكی (at sineği), بوكهلك (büğelek)
- Persian: خرمگس (fa) (xar-magas)
- Polish: bąk (pl) m
- Portuguese: moscardo (pt) m, tavão (pt) m, mutuca (pt) f (Brazil)
- Quechua: tak'a
- Romanian: tăun (ro) m
- Russian: сле́пень (ru) m (slépenʹ)
- Samogitian: bimbals m
- Scots: cleg
- Scottish Gaelic: creithleag-nan-each f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏ба̄д m, (Serbia, Montenegro) ко̏њска му̀ва f, (Croatia, Bosnia) ко̏њска му̀ха f
- Roman: ȍbād (sh) m, (Serbia, Montenegro) kȍnjska mùva (sh) f, (Croatia, Bosnia) kȍnjska mùha f
- Sicilian: tavana f, musca tavana f
- Skolt Sami: puär
- Slovak: ovad m
- Slovene: obad (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m
- Upper Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m
- Southern Altai: кӧгӧн (kögön)
- Spanish: tábano (es) m, tabánido m
- Sundanese: piteuk
- Swahili: pange
- Swedish: broms (sv) c
- Tagalog: bangaw, niknik (dialectal)
- Tajik: хармагас (xarmagas), kӯрмагас (kürmagas)
- Telugu: జోరీగ (te) (jōrīga)
- Thai: ฑังส, เหลือบ (lʉ̀ʉap)
- Turkish: atsineği
- Ukrainian: ґедзь (uk) m (gedzʹ)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: сўна (soʻna)
- Roman: soʻna (uz)
- Venetian: tavàn m
- Welsh: pryfyn y gweryd m, robin y diawl gwyllt m (dialectal)
- Yakut: күлүмэн (külümen)
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