mosquito

See also: Mosquito

English

Aedes aegypti biting a human.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mosquito (“gnat”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūs- (“fly, stinging fly, gnat”). Cognate with West Flemish meuzie (“mosquito”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dialectal mausa (“mosquito”), Lithuanian musė (“a fly”). See also midge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈski.toʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /mɒsˈkiː.təʊ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Noun

mosquito (plural mosquitos or mosquitoes)

1. A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

Hypernyms

• gnat
• midge

Derived terms

• antimosquito
• malaria mosquito (Anopheles spp.)
• mosquito bar
• mosquito bite
• mosquitocide
• Mosquito Coast
• mosquito coil
• mosquitoey
• mosquito fern (Azolla spp.)
• mosquitofish (Gambusia spp. et al.)
• mosquito fleet
• mosquitogenic
• mosquito hawk (Tipulomorpha or Epiprocta)
• mosquito net
• mosquito netting
• mosquito wire
• tiger mosquito (Aedes spp.)

 

Related terms

• Diminutive: mossie/mozzie (Australia, UK) or skeeter (US)

Translations

small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood

• Abkhaz: акәыбры (akʷʼəbrə)
• Afrikaans: muskiet
• Albanian: mushkonjë (sq)
• Arabic: بَعُوضَة f (baʕūḍa), نَامُوسَة f (nāmūsa)

  Egyptian: نَمُوسَة f (namūsa)

  Hijazi Arabic: ناموسة f (nāmūsa)

• Armenian: մոծակ (hy) (mocak), մժեղ (hy) (mžeġ)
• Aromanian: mushconj m, cunupi f, tsãntsar m
• Assamese: মহ (moh)
• Asturian: mosquitu m
• Avar: кӏкӏара (kkʼara)
• Azerbaijani: ağcaqanad (az)
• Bashkir: серәкәй (serəkəy)
• Basque: eltxo
• Bau Bidayuh: pirungang
• Belarusian: кама́р m (kamár), маскі́т m (maskít)
• Bengali: মশা (mośa)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: wabiba m

• Bikol Central: namok
• Brunei Malay: rangit, nyamuk
• Budukh: мичек (miček)
• Bulgarian: кома́р (bg) m (komár)
• Burmese: ခြင် (my) (hkrang)
• Buryat: боргооһон (borgoohon)
• Catalan: mosquit (ca) m
• Cebuano: lamok, namok
• Central Melanau: kekiyaih
• Chamicuro: ayno
• Chechen: чуьрк (čürk)
• Cherokee: ᏙᏌ (dosa)
• Chichewa: udzudzu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蚊 (yue) (man¹, man⁴)

  Hakka: 蚊仔 (mûn-é)

  Mandarin: 蚊子 (zh) (wénzi)

  Min Dong: 風蚊／风蚊 (hŭng-muòng), 风蚊 (hŭng-muòng)

  Min Nan: 蠓 (zh-min-nan) (báng), 蚊仔 (báng-á)

  Wu: 蚊子 (men tsr)

• Chukchi: мранԓыӈын (mranḷyṇyn), мрэнти pl (mrėnti)
• Cornish: moskito m
• Crimean Tatar: şırqıy
• Czech: komár (cs) m
• Danish: stikmyg c
• Darkinjung: dyuping
• Dupaningan Agta: namok
• Dutch: steekmug (nl) f, muskiet (nl) m
• Esperanto: kulo (eo)
• Estonian: sääsk (et), moskiito
• Faroese: mýggjabiti m, mýggjabit n, mýggj n (rare)
• Fijian: namu
• Finnish: hyttynen (fi), sääski (fi), moskiitto (fi)
• French: moustique (fr) m
• Galician: mosquito m
• Georgian: კოღო (ḳoɣo), ქინქლი (kinkli)
• German: Stechmücke (de) f (commonest term); Schnake (de) f (south-western); Gelse (de) f (south-eastern); Moskito (de) m (chiefly tropcial species)
• Greek: κουνούπι (el) n (kounoúpi)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kíta
• Gujarati: મચ્છર (macchar)
• Hebrew: יַתּוּשׁ (he) m (yatúsh), כּוֹלְכִית f (kolchít)
• Hindi: मच्छर (hi) m (macchar), मच्छड़ (hi) m (macchaṛ)
• Hungarian: szúnyog (hu)
• Hunsrik: Muskitt m
• Icelandic: moskítófluga (is) f
• Ido: moskito (io)
• Indonesian: nyamuk (id)

  Acehnese: jamok

  Balinese: legu

  Banjarese: ñamuk

  Buginese: namoʔ

  Javanese: lemut

  Madurese: reŋŋeʔ

  Minangkabau: ranŋiʔ

  Sundanese: reungit

• Ingush: зунгат (zungat)
• Interlingua: mosquito, culice
• Irish: muiscít f
• Italian: zanzara (it) f
• Japanese: 蚊 (ja) (か, ka)
• Kalmyk: бөкүн (bökün)
• Kannada: ನುಸಿಸೊಳ್ಳೆ (nusisoḷḷe), ಸೊಳ್ಳೆ (kn) (soḷḷe)
• Kazakh: маса (kk) (masa), москит (moskit)
• Khanty:

  Kazym:

• Khmer: មូស (km) (muuh)
• Kimaragang: rongit
• Komi-Zyrian: ном (nom)
• Korean: 모기 (ko) (mogi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مێشوولە (mêşûle)

  Northern Kurdish: pêşî (ku) m

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• Kyrgyz: чиркей (ky) (cirkey)
• Lak: мичӏак (mičʼak)
• Lao: ຍຸງ (lo) (nyung)
• Latgalian: ūds m
• Latin: culex m
• Latvian: ods (lv) m, dzēlējods m (formal), knislis m, knausis m (dialectism), moskīts m
• Lezgi: мичек (miček)
• Lithuanian: uodas (lt) m, kuisys m (dial.), varmas m (dial.)
• Livvi: čakku, pinʼoi
• Luo: suna
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: комарец m (komarec)
• Malagasy: moka (mg)
• Malay: nyamuk (ms)
• Malayalam: കൊതുക് (kotuk‌)
• Maltese: nemusa f
• Manchu: ᡤᠠᠯᠮᠠᠨ (galman)
• Manx: corveeyl f
• Maori: waeroa, naenae, naeroa, ngaeroa, kēroa, namu katipō
• Maranao: rengit
• Marathi: डास (ḍās)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:

  Western Mari: шӹнгӓ (šÿngä)

• Marwari: माछर (māchar)
• Mi'kmaq: glmuej anim
• Moksha: сяське (śaśke)
• Mongolian: шумуул (mn) (šumuul), дэлэнч (mn) (delenč)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical: mōyōtl

  Highland Puebla: xajcalmo̱yo̱t

  Mecayapan: mo̱yo̱ꞌ

  Michoacán: muyol

  Northern Puebla: sancudo

  Tetelcingo: sancuro

• Navajo: tsʼíʼii daʼaneezíʼ, tsʼíʼii
• Ngarrindjeri: muruli
• Norman: moustique f
• Northern Sami: čuoika
• Norwegian: mygg (no) m
• Occitan: moissal (oc) m, mosquilh (oc) m
• Old English: myċġ m
• Pashto: غوماشه (ps) f (ǧumãša), مياسه f (myãsa), مياشه f (myãša)
• Persian: پشه (fa) (paše)
• Polish: komar (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: mosquito (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੱਛਰ (macchar)
• Romanian: țânțar (ro) m
• Russian: кома́р (ru) m (komár), моски́т (ru) m (moskít)
• Samoan: namu
• Samogitian: koisis m
• Scottish Gaelic: mosgìoto m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: комарац m, комарица f

  Roman: komarac (sh) m, komarica f

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: komár (sk) m
• Slovene: komar (sl) m
• Spanish: mosquito (es) m, mosco (es) m (Mexico), plaga (es) f (Venezuela), zancudo (es) m (Central America, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuelan standard usage)
• Supyire: lùpààn
• Swahili: mbu (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: mygga (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: namuk, tukung
• Tagalog: lamok
• Tajik: пашша (pašša), хомӯшак (tg) (xomüšak)
• Tamil: கொசு (ta) (kocu), மசகம் (ta) (macakam), மசம் (ta) (macam)
• Tatar: черки (tt) (çerki), озынборын (ozınborın)
• Telugu: దోమ (te) (dōma)
• Thai: ยุง (th) (yung)
• Tibetan: དུག་སྦྲང (dug sbrang)
• Turkish: sivrisinek (tr)
• Turkmen: çyybyn
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Udi: моцӏакӏ (moc̣aḳ)
• Udmurt: нымы (nymy), чибинь (ćibiń)
• Ukrainian: кома́р (uk) m (komár), москі́т m (moskít)
• Urdu: مچھر m (macchar)
• Uyghur: پاشا (pasha)
• Uzbek: chivin (uz), iskabtopar (uz)
• Venetian: sginsała f, sginzała, sensała, sansała
• Vietnamese: muỗi (vi)
• Volapük: muskit (vo)
• Welsh: mosgito m
• West Coast Bajau: namuk
• Western Ojibwa: sakimê
• Wolof: yoo wi (wo)
• Xhosa: ingcongconi class 9/10
• Yiddish: קאָמאַר m (komar)
• Yucatec Maya: k'oxol
• Zhuang: nyungz
• Zulu: umiyane (zu) class 1a/2a

Verb

mosquito (third-person singular simple present mosquitos, present participle mosquitoing, simple past and past participle mosquitoed)

1. To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

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Galician

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From mosca, mosco (“fly”) +‎ -ito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mosˈki.to]

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. diminutive of mosca; a mosquito.
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 107v:

     […] ſera aguardado del danno delos moſquitos. ¬ de todas maneras de moſcas que seá pozonadas o mordedores. / Et eſto es mas deſcendiédo ſobreſta piedra la útud de fiǵa de moſq́to, o de alguna deſtas otras moſcas que dixiemos.

     […] he will be kept from the harm of mosquitos and all manners of flies that are venomous or that bite. And this will happen more when over this stone descends the virtue of the figure of the mosquito, or that of another one of the flies we mentioned.

Descendants

• Spanish: mosquito
  • English: mosquito

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Portuguese

Etymology

From mosca +‎ -ito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muʃˈkitu/

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito

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Spanish

Etymology

mosca +‎ -ito (diminutive suffix), or Old Spanish moquito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkito/ [mosˈki.t̪o]

Noun

mosquito m (plural mosquitos)

1. mosquito
2. gnat
3. diminutive of mosco, small fly

Synonyms

• (mosquito): zancudo, moyote (Mexico)

Derived terms

• mosquitero
• mosquito simúlido

See also

• jején m