horsefly

English

Alternative forms

• horse-fly
• horse fly

Etymology

From Middle English horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse +‎ fly.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoɹsˌflaɪ/
• Hyphenation: horse‧fly

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

horsefly (plural horseflies)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (fly of family Tabanidae): cleg (dialectal), breezefly, gadfly, stoat-fly, stout

Hyponyms

• (individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae): deer fly, yellow fly, March fly (Australia), zimb

Translations

fly of the family Tabanidae

• Abenaki: massakwa
• Afrikaans: perdevlieg
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: кӧгӧн (kögön)

• Arabic: نُعَرَة f (nuʕara)
• Arapaho: niice'noubee
• 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, böyələk
• Bashkir: күгәүен (kügəwen)
• Basque: ezpara
• Belarusian: сляпень m (sljapjenʹ)
• Bengali: ঘোড়া মাছি (ghōṛa machi)
• Breton: moui (collective), boui (collective)
• Bulgarian: ко́нска муха́ f (kónska muhá)
• Catalan: tabànid m, tàvec (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏓᎦᎦ (dagaga), ᏓᎹᎦ (damaga)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 虻 (mong⁴)

  Mandarin: 虻 (zh) (méng), 馬蠅 / 马蝇 (zh) (mǎying) (popular)

• Choctaw: wʋhlana
• Cornish: sodron (collective)
• Cree: ᒥᓯᓵᕁ (misisaahk), ᒥᓯᒑᕁ (misicaahk)
• Creek: rono
• Czech: ovád (cs) m
• Danish: klæg c
• Dutch: daas (nl) c, steekvlieg f, blinddaas 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

  Bavarian: Brejm

• Greek: αλογόμυγα (el) f (alogómyga)

  Ancient Greek: μύωψ m (múōps)

• Hebrew: זְבוּב הַסּוּס m (zvuv hasus)
• Hungarian: bögöly (hu)
• Icelandic: kleggi m
• Ido: tabano (io)
• Indonesian: pikat (id)
• Ingrian: paarma, paarmas, paarmahain, paaromain
• 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, oestrus m, asīlus m
• Latvian: dundurs m
• Limburgish: sjeldaes (li), staekvleeg f
• Linngithigh: onhi
• Lithuanian: sparvos m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Brems f

• Luxembourgish: Beel f
• Macedonian: ко́њска му́ва f (kónjska múva)
• Malay: pikat (ms)
• Malayalam: പോന്ത (ml) (pōnta)
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: psosahq, 'sosahq
• Mapun: pikot
• Maranao: langaw
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: пормо (pormo)

  Western Mari: пармы (parmy)

• Mi'kmaq: musoq
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөх түрүү (xöx türüü)

• Navajo: tłʼézhii, łį́į́ʼ bitsísʼná
• Norman: taon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klegg m

  Nynorsk: klegg m

• Occitan: tavan (oc) m
• Ojibwe: mizizaak
• Old Norse: kleggi m
• 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)
• Sami:

  Skolt Sami: puär

• 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

  Latin: ȍbād (sh) m, (Serbia, Montenegro) kȍnjska mùva (sh) f, (Croatia, Bosnia) kȍnjska mùha f

• Sicilian: tavana f, musca tavana f
• Slovak: ovad m
• Slovene: obad (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m

  Upper Sorbian: slěpc m, slěpik m

• Spanish: tábano (es) m, tabánido m
• Sundanese: piteuk
• Swahili: pange
• Swedish: broms (sv) c
• Tagalog: bangaw, niknik (dialectal)
• Tajik: хармагас (xarmagas), kӯрмагас (kürmagas)
• Tày: ca rệp
• Telugu: జోరీగ (te) (jōrīga)
• Thai: ฑังส, เหลือบ (th) (lʉ̀ʉap)
• Turkish: atsineği (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آت سیڭكی (at sineği), بوكه‌لك (büğelek)

• Ukrainian: ґедзь (uk) m (gedzʹ)
• Unami: sësaw
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: сўна (soʻna)

  Latin: soʻna (uz)

• Venetan: tavàn m
• Welsh: pryf llwyd m, (southern) clêr llwyd f pl
• Yakut: күлүмэн (külümen)

Anagrams

• floryshe, shore fly