locust

English

Etymology

From Middle English locuste, locust, from Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”) either directly or through Anglo-Norman locuste and Middle French locuste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊ.kəst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈloʊ.kəst/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

locust (plural locusts)

1. Any of the grasshoppers, usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
   1. especially, the migratory locust ()
   2. American locust () (does not swarm)
   3. Australian plague locust ()
   4. Bombay locust ()
   5. brown locust ()
   6. desert locust ()
   7. Italian locust ()
   8. Moroccan locust ()
   9. red locust ()
   10. Rocky Mountain locust () – extinct
   11. spur-throated locust () - Australia
   12. Tree locusts ( spp.)
       1. (Egyptian locust)
       2. , of Africa.
       3. , of Africa
2. A locust tree.

Usage notes

• sometimes confused with locus

Translations

type of grasshopper

• Albanian: karkalec (sq) m
• Apache:

  Western Apache: nagonełchʼiigi

• Arabic: جَرَادَة f (jarāda)

  Egyptian Arabic: جراد m (garād) (collective), جرادة f (garāda) (singulative)

• Armenian: մորեխ (hy) (morex)
• Aromanian: lãcustã f, gãlãgustã f, scarcaletsu, acridhã f
• Azerbaijani: çəyirtkə (az)
• Belarusian: саранчу́к m (sarančúk), саранча́ f (sarančá)
• Bengali: পঙ্গপাল (poṅgopal)
• Bulgarian: скака́лец (bg) m (skakálec)
• Burmese: ကျိုင်းကောင် (kyuing:kaung), ကျိုင် (kyuing)
• Catalan: llagosta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (zh) (huángchóng), 蝗虫 (zh) (huángchóng)

• Czech: saranče (cs) n
• Danish: vandregræshoppe c, græshoppe (da) c
• Dutch: treksprinkhaan (nl) m, sprinkhaan (nl) m
• Egyptian: (znḥm)
• Erzya: таста (tasta)
• Esperanto: akrido (eo), lokusto (eo)
• Estonian: rändtirts
• Finnish: kulkusirkka (fi)
• Fon: gbokle
• French: locuste (fr) f, criquet (fr) m
• Galician: langosta f, lagosta (gl) f
• Georgian: კალია (ḳalia)
• German: Heuschrecke (de) f
• Greek: ακρίδα (el) f (akrída)

  Ancient: ἀκρίς f (akrís)

• Hausa: fàra
• Hebrew: אַרְבֶּה (he) m (arbé), חָגָב (he) m (khagav)
• Hindi: टिड्डी f (ṭiḍḍī)
• Hungarian: sáska (hu)
• Ido: lokusto (io)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: locusta (it) f
• Japanese: 飛蝗 (ja) (ばった, batta), イナゴ (ja) (いなご, inago)
• Kazakh: шегіртке (kk) (şegırtke)
• Korean: 메뚜기 (ko) (mettugi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کولە (kule)

• Kyrgyz: чегиртке (ky) (cegirtke)
• Lao: ຕັກແຕນ (tak tǣn), ງ້ວງ (ngūang)
• Latin: locusta f
• Latvian: sisenis
• Lithuanian: skėrys (lt) m
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• Macedonian: скакулец m (skakulec)
• Maltese: ġurat m
• Maori: māwhitiwhiti, rangataua, pākaurere
• Mongolian: царцаахай (mn) (carcaaxaj), голио (mn) (golio)
• Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii, wóóneeshchʼįįdii nahachaʼígíí
• Norwegian: gresshoppe m
• Old English: gærshoppa m, gærstapa m
• Ossetian:

  Digor: мӕдух (mædux)

  Iron: мӕтых (mætyx)

• Panamint: tsapitta
• Persian: ملخ (fa) (malax), میگ (fa) (mayg)
• Polish: szarańcza (pl) f
• Portuguese: gafanhoto (pt) m
• Romanian: lăcustă (ro) f
• Russian: саранча́ (ru) f (sarančá), саранчу́к (ru) m (sarančúk)
• Santali: ᱯᱳᱦᱳ (poho)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скакавац m, цврчак m, зрикавац m

  Roman: skakavac (sh) m, cvrčak (sh) m, zrikavac (sh) m

• Slovak: saranča f
• Slovene: kobilica (sl) f
• Southern Sami: kraesienjålhtja
• Spanish: langosta (es) f
• Swahili: nzige (sw)
• Swedish: gräshoppa (sv) c
• Tagalog: balang
• Tajik: малах (tg) (malax)
• Tamil: வெட்டுக்கிளி (ta) (veṭṭukkiḷi)
• Thai: ปาทังกา (th) (bpaa-tang-gâa)
• Tibetan: ཚ་ག་བ (tsha ga ba)
• Tswana: tsie
• Turkish: çekirge (tr)
• Turkmen: çekirtge
• Ukrainian: сарана́ f (saraná)
• Uyghur: چېكەتكە (chëketke)
• Uzbek: chigirtka (uz)
• Vietnamese: châu chấu (vi)
• Welsh: locust m, locustiaid m pl
• Wolof: njéeréer bi
• Yiddish: היישעריק m (heysherik)
• Zazaki: mele

Verb

locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)

1. (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
   • (Can we date this quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
     The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
     Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
     Confiscate lands, goods, money […]

Anagrams

• clouts

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Middle English

Noun

locust

1. Alternative form of locuste