praying mantis

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A praying mantis

Etymology

Mantis from Greek μάντις ‎(mántis). Named "praying mantis" for their stance, with "hands" held together, resembling a person praying.

Noun

praying mantis ‎(plural praying mantises or praying mantes)

1. Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the family Mantidae that have a prayer-like stance.
2. (regional, in Europe) A mantid of the species Mantis religiosa.

Synonyms

• (general term): mantid, mantis

Translations

any of various predatory insects of the Mantidae family

• Afrikaans: hottentotsgod
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m ‎(faras an-nabiyy)
• Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) ‎(ałotʿarar), հարցուկ (hy) ‎(harcʿuk)
• Basque: marisorgin
• Belarusian: багамол m ‎(bahamól)
• Bulgarian: богомолка f ‎(bogomólka)
• Catalan: mantodeu m, pregadéu m, pregamans m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) ‎(tángláng), 刀螂 (zh) ‎(dāolang)

• Czech: kudlanka nábožná, kudlanka (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m
• Finnish: rukoilijasirkka
• French: mante religieuse (fr) f
• German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f
• Greek: αλογάκι της Παναγίας (el) n ‎(alogáki tis Panagías)
• Hebrew: גמלי שלמה
• Hungarian: imádkozó sáska
• Italian: mantide religiosa f
• Japanese: 螳螂, 蟷螂 (ja) ‎(かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō)
• Khmer: កណ្ដូបសេះ ‎(kɑndoop seh)
• Korean: 사마귀 (ko) ‎(samagwi), 당랑 (ko) ‎(dangnang) (螳螂 (ko))
• Lao: ແມງມ້າ ‎(mǣng mā)

• Lithuanian: maldininkas m
• Macedonian: богомолка f ‎(bogómolka)
• Maori: rō, whē
• Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
• Persian: آخوندک (fa) ‎(âxundak)
• Polish: modliszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m, cavalinho-de-deus m
• Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f
• Russian: богомо́л (ru) m ‎(bogomól)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: богомољка f

  Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f

• Slovak: kudlanka f, kudlanka nábožná f
• Slovene: bogomolka (sl) f
• Spanish: mantis religiosa (es) f, rezadora (es) f,campamocha (es) f (Mexico), cerbatana f (Venezuela), mamboretá f (Argentina, Uruguay), santateresa (es) f (Spain), tatadiós (es) m (Argentina), triquitesa f (Western Spain, specifically Extremadura), usamico m (Northwestern Argentina)
• Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv) c
• Tagalog: sambasamba, sasamba, mandadangkal
• Thai: ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว ‎(dtákgàdtaen dtam kâao), ตั๊กแตนต่อยมวย ‎(dtákgàdtaen dtòi muay)
• Turkish: peygamberdevesi (tr), peygamber devesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: богомол m ‎(bohomól)

Mantis religiosa

• Breton: pederez (br) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: rukoilijasirkka, eurooppalainen rukoilijasirkka

• French: mante religieuse (fr) f
• Russian: обыкнове́нный богомо́л m ‎(obyknovénnyj bogomól)
• Slovene: bogomolka (sl) f
• Spanish: mantis religiosa (es) f