mosquito net

English

mosquito net

Noun

mosquito net (plural mosquito nets)

1. A fine net, placed around a bed, in a window opening, etc., to provide protection against mosquitoes and other insects, and the diseases carried by them.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:

     Child-trouble widened her brown eyes as she turned them on the shrouded figure stiffly outlined by the sheet, now partly screened by the mosquito-net.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 505:

     In the room the mosquito net was down, ghost-grey in the falling light.

Synonyms

• wire blinds

Translations

fine net used to protect against mosquitos

• Arabic: نَامُوسِيَّة f (nāmūsiyya)

  Chadian Arabic: سنقة f (sange)

• Belarusian: маскітная сетка f (maskitnaja sjetka)
• Bikol Central: kubong (bcl)
• Burmese: ခြင်ထောင် (my) (hkranghtaung)
• Catalan: mosquitera f
• Cebuano: moskitero
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蚊帳 / 蚊帐 (man^4-1 zoeng³)

  Hokkien: 蠓罩 (zh-min-nan) (báng-tà)

  Mandarin: 蚊帳 / 蚊帐 (zh) (wénzhàng)

• Czech: moskytiéra (cs) f
• Danish: myggenet (da) n
• Dutch: klamboe (nl) m, muskietennet (nl) n, muskietengaas (nl) n
• Esperanto: kulvualo
• Finnish: hyttysverkko (fi)
• French: moustiquaire (fr) f
• Galician: mosquiteiro (gl) m, mosqueiro (gl) m
• German: Moskitonetz (de) n
• Greek: κουνουπιέρα (el) (kounoupiéra)
• Greenlandic: ippernaaqqut
• Gujarati: મચ્છરદાની (macchardānī)
• Hindi: मच्छरदानी f (macchardānī)
• Hungarian: szúnyogháló (hu)
• Ido: paramoskito
• Ilocano: kulambo
• Indonesian: kelambu (id)
• Italian: zanzariera (it) f
• Japanese: 蚊帳 (ja) (かや, kaya), 蚊屋 (かや, kaya)
• Kachchi: મછરદાની (machardānī)
• Khmer: មុង (km) (mung), មុងផ្លិត (muŋ plət)
• Korean: 모기장 (mogijang)
• Lao: ສຸດ (sut), ມຸ້ງ (mung), ມຸສະ (mu sa)
• Latin: conopeum n
• Lü: ᦉᦳᧆ (ṡud)
• Macedonian: комарник m (komarnik)
• Maguindanao: kulambu
• Malay: kelambu
• Mansaka: korambo
• Maranao: bakokong, kolambo
• Ngazidja Comorian: mustakera class 9/10
• Old English: myċġnett n
• Old Slovak: suňoghaló m
• Ottoman Turkish: جبینلك (cibinlik)
• Polish: moskitiera (pl) f, komarnik m
• Portuguese: mosquiteiro m
• Punjabi: ਮੱਛਰਦਾਨੀ f (macchardānī)
• Russian: накома́рник (ru) m (nakomárnik), моски́тная се́тка f (moskítnaja sétka)
• Shan: သုတ်း (shn) (sút)
• Spanish: mosquitero (es) m, toldillo (es) m
• Swahili: chandarua (sw), kiandarua cha mbu (sw)
• Swedish: myggnät (sv) n
• Tagalog: kulambo
• Tausug: kulambo
• Thai: มุ้ง (th) (múng)
• Turkish: cibinlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: москітна сітка f (moskitna sitka), москітова сітка f (moskitova sitka)
• Vietnamese: màn (vi), mùng (vi)
• Waray-Waray: moskitero
• Welsh: rhwyd fosgitos f