From en.wiktionary.org:
[Appendix:Variations of "ant"]
** Translingual
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [3]
*** See also
- [[pagename]]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [obsolete]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en] + [gem-pro],
from [en]. Cognate with [sco], dialectal [nl], [nl], [de] and [de]. See also
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [ănt] :
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] [in some accents]
- [änt] , [en]
-
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Any of various insect s in the family [Formicidae] in the order [Hymenoptera] , typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-26 | author= Nick Miroff (see http://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-miroff)
|volume=189|issue=7|page=32|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=Mexico gets
a taste for eating insects (see
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/23/mexico-insect-cuisine-sustainable-food)
[[...]] |passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of
exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters
[...]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or
even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen _chicatanas_ – giant winged
ANTS – at around $500 a kilo.}}
1. [en] A Web spider .
**** Synonyms
- [insect] [en] [archaic] , pismire [archaic] , [en] , [en] [colloquial]
**** Hyponyms
- [insect in Formicidae] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|acrobat ant |agricultural ant |Allegheny mound ant |Amazon ant |ant
bear,ant-bear,antbear |ant-bed |ant-bed,antbed parrot,antbed parrot moth |ant
beetle ([Thanasimus formicarius]) |antbird ([Thamnophilidae] spp.) |ant-blue
([Acrodipsas] spp.) |ant cap |ant cattle |ant cow |ant cricket
([Myrmecophilidae]) |antdom |anteater,ant-eater |anteating |ant egg |anternet
|ant farm |antheap |ant-heap |anthill,ant-hill,ant hill |anthole |anthood
|anticide |anting |antish |antkind |antless |antlet |antlike |antling
|antlion/ant lion ([Myrmeleontidae] spp.) |antly |ant mill |ant mimicry |ant
mound |ant nest beetle |ant orchid ([Chiloglottis formicifera]) |antpecker
|Antperson |antpipit |antpitta ([Grallariidae] spp.) |ant-plant |antproof |ant
rattan (esp. [Korthalsia rostrata]) |ant rice ([Aristida oligantha]) |ant
sand |antshrike ([Thamnophilidae] spp.) |ants in one's pants |ant's pants |ant
spider |antsy |ant tanager |ant-tanager |ant thrush, antthrush ([Formicarius]
spp., [Chamaeza] spp.) |ant tree |antvireo ([Dysithamnus] spp.) |antwren
([Myrmotherula] spp.) |anty |Argentine ant ([Linepithema humilis]) |armadillo
ant |banded sugar ant ([Camponotus consobrinus]) |bigheaded ant ([Pheidole
megacephala]) |black ant |black imported fire ant |blood-red ant |blue ant
([Diamma bicolor]) |bullet ant ([Paraponera clavata]) |cocktail ant |coconut
ant |crazy ant ([Paratrechina] spp. etc.) |driver ant ([Dorylus] spp.) |duck
ant ([Nasutitermes nigriceps]) |Florida carpenter ant |fungus-growing ant
|ghost ant |gliding ant |green ant |green tree ant |green-tree ant |harvester
ant |Hercules ant |honey ant |honey pot ant,honeypot ant |horse ant |jet ant
|Langton's ant |leaf-cutter ant,leaf-cutting ant |legionary ant |lemon ant
|lion ant |little black ant |meat ant ([Iridomyrmex purpureus]) |mound ant
|negro ant |odorous house ant |panda ant |parasol ant |pavement ant |piss-ant
|pissant |rainbow ant |red imported fire ant |safari ant |sanguinary ant
|skull-collecting ant |slave ant |slave-making ant |stink ant |sugar ant
([Camponotus] spp.) |throw an ant into a sty |tramp ant |trap jaw ant,trap-jaw
ant,trapjaw ant |turf ant |turtle ant |umbrella ant |Valentine ant |velvet ant
([Mutillidae] spp.) |visiting ant |warrior ant |weaver ant |white
ant/white-ant ([Isoptera] spp.) |yellow crazy ant ([Anoplolepis gracilipes])
|yellow hill ant |yellow meadow ant }}
**** Translations
[insect]{{multitrans|data=
- Abaza: [abq]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ainu: [ain]
- Akan: [ak]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Alviri-Vidari: [avd] [Vidari]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] [collective] , [ar] [singulative] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Aramaic:
- Argobba: [agj]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Arrernte:
- Ashkun: [ask]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Aymara: [ay] , [ay]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Baluchi: [bal] , [bal]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Bau Bidayuh: [sne]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bislama: [bi]
- Bodo (India): [brx]
- Breton: [br] , [collective] [br] )
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb] , [ceb] , [ceb]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Central Sierra Miwok: [csm]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Coptic: [cop] [Sahidic] , [cop] [Bohairic]
- Cornish: [kw] [collective] , [kw]
- Crimean Gothic: [gme-cgo]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dargwa: [dar]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dhuwal: [dwu]
- Dieri: [dif]
- Dimasa: [dis]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Dzongkha: [dz]
- Elfdalian: [ovd]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Farefare: [gur] , [gur]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Ga: [gaa] , [gaa]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gooniyandi: [gni]
- Gorontalo: [gor]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Guerrero Amuzgo: [amu]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht] , [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hmar: [hmr]
- Hopi: [hop]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ibanag: [ibg]
- Ibibio: [ibb]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isthmus Zapotec: [zai]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Istro-Romanian: [ruo]
- Italian: [it]
- Itelmen: [itl]
- Jamaican Creole: [jam]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabardian: [kbd]
- Kamkata-viri: [bsh]
- Kanakanabu: [xnb]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kaqchikel: [cak]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Kashmiri: [ks] , [ks]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kaurna: [zku]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kikai: [kzg]
- Klamath-Modoc: [kla]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kuna: [cuk]
- Kunigami: [xug]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lak: [lbe]
- Lamkang: [lmk]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Limburgish: [li]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Luxembourgish: [lb] , [lb]
- Maasai: [mas]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mauritian Creole: [mfe]
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Meriam: [ulk]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Miyako: [mvi]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Moksha: [mdf]
- Mongolian:
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Newar: [new]
- Ngiyambaa: [wyb]
- Nheengatu: [yrl]
- Nivkh: [niv]
- Norman: [nrf] , [nrf]
- North Frisian: [Föhr-Amrum] [frr]
- Northern Amami Ōshima: [ryn]
- Northern Thai: [nod]
- Norwegian:
- Nyunga: [nys] , [nys] , [nys] , [nys] , [nys]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Okinoerabu: [okn]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Turkic: [otk]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os] , [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Paiwan: [pwn]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Pichinglis: [fpe]
- Pijin: [pis]
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Prasuni: [prn]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [colloquial] [ru] , [ru] [regional]
- Sami:
- Samoan: [sm]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Santali: [sat]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] [Limba Sarda Comuna]
- Saterland Frisian: [stq]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Seychellois Creole: [crs]
- Shan: [shn]
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Sikkimese: [sip]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so] , [so]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt] , [alt]
- Southern Amami Ōshima: [ams]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Peru]
- Sudovian: [xsv]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Svan: [sva]
- Swahili: [sw] [small ant] , [sw] [army ant]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagal Murut: [mvv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tarifit: [rif] , [rif]
- Tat: [ttt]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tokunoshima: [tkn]
- Tongan: [to]
- Torres Strait Creole: [tcs]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Tzotzil: [tzo]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] [rare, mainly India]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Vilamovian: [wym]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [obsolete]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Waray-Waray: [war] , [war]
- Warlpiri: [wbp]
- Welsh: [cy] [collective] , [cy] [singulative]
- West Coast Bajau: [bdr]
- West Frisian: [fy] , [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Wik-Mungkan: [wim]
- Wiradjuri: [wrh]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yaeyama: [rys]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yindjibarndi: [yij]
- Yonaguni: [yoi]
- Yoron: [yox]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Záparo: [zro]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [zu] , [zu]
}} [trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
- Appendix:Animals
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- Appendix:English collective nouns
[list:extant orders of insects/en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To rub insects, especially ants , on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers .
2. * {{ quote-journal
|1=en |year=1974 |coauthors=Eloise Potter; Doris Hauser |title=Relationship of
anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds |journal=The Auk |volume=91
|url=http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v091n03/p0537-p0563.pdf |page=538
|passage=Wild birds tend to ANT and sunbathe most frequently during periods of
high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.
|accessdate=23 March 2012
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606134323/http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v091n03/p0537-p0563.pdf
|archivedate=6 June 2011 }}
*** References
References:
[1]. [head=ant]
[2]. [head=añt]
[3]. [R:lt:LKEŽDUB]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Breton
*** Etymology
From [br] by misdivision, from [br], from [br], [cel-pro].
*** Pronunciation
- [br]
*** Noun
[m]
1. furrow
**** Derived terms
- [br]
- [br]
**** Related terms
- [br]
** Catalan
*** Alternative forms
- [ca]
*** Etymology
From [ca], presumably by misdivision.
*** Pronunciation
- [ca-IPA]
- [ca]
*** Noun
[m]
1. elk , moose
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
[ca]
** Crimean Tatar
*** Noun
[crh-noun]
1. oath
**** Declension
[nıñ]
**** Synonyms
- [crh]
*** References
- [R:Useinov-Mireev 2002]
** Egyptian
*** Romanization
[egy]
1. [ꜥnt]
** Haitian Creole
*** Etymology
From [ht].
*** Pronunciation
- [ht]
*** Preposition
[ht]
1. between
** Lithuanian
*** Alternative forms
- [lt]
*** Etymology
[lt], from [lt].[1][2][3] Compare [xsv].
*** Pronunciation
- [lt]
*** Preposition
[g]
1. on
*** References
References:
[1]. [head=ant]
[2]. [head=añt]
[3]. [R:lt:LKEŽDUB]
*** Further reading
- [R:LKZ]
- [R:lt:DŽ]
- [page=407]
** Meroitic
*** Romanization
[xmr]
1. [xmr]
** Middle High German
*** Alternative forms
- [gmh]
*** Etymology
[gmh]
*** Pronunciation
[gmh-IPA]
*** Noun
[m]
1. duck
2. drake [male duck]
**** Declension
[m] [ante < f.weak>]
**** Descendants
- [gsw]
- [gmw-cfr]
- [hrx]
- [lb]
- [de]
- [gmw-rfr]
- Frankfurterisch: IPA [ ent ]
- [pdc]
- [wym]
*** References
- [id=A00534]
- [ant]
[gmh]
** Middle Welsh
*** Alternative forms
- [wlm]
*** Pronunciation
- [wlm]
*** Verb
[wlm]
1. [wlm]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Pronunciation
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
- [nb]
*** Verb
[nb]
1. [nb]
2. [nb]
3. [nb]
*** Anagrams
- [nb]
** Scots
*** Verb
[ant]
1. [sco]
*** References
- [pos=v]
** Turkish
*** Etymology
[tr], from [tr]. Cognate with [otk], [az], and [alt].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
- [tr]
- [tr]
*** Noun
[andı]
1. oath
**** Declension
[a]
**** Synonyms
- [tr]
- [tr]
- [tr]
** Turkmen
[c=ант]
*** Etymology
From [tk].
*** Noun
[tk-noun]
1. oath
**** Declension
[tk]
*** Further reading
- [R:tk:Enedilim]
- [R:tk:Webonary]
** Vilamovian
*** Etymology
[wym] From [wym] alongside [gmh], from [wym] alongside [goh], from [wym].
Compare [nl], [de].
*** Pronunciation
- [wym]
- [wym]
*** Noun
[g=f]
1. duck
[wym]