From en.wiktionary.org:
[fleá]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en] (compare [fy], [nds], [nds],
[nl], [de], [is]), from pre-Germanic *_plóukos_, [ine-pro], from or akin to
[en] (compare [la], [sa]).
<!--Moved from fleen.-->The archaic plural _fleen_ is from [en], [enm], from
[en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
* [en]
- Homophones: flee
**** Noun
[+]
1. [en] A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order [Siphonaptera] , renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
2. [en] A thing of no significance. < !--See "dead dog"-->
3. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|antiflea |beach flea |beflea |chigoe flea |deflea |dog-flea model
|duck flea |eight-spotted flea beetle |fit as a flea |flea allergy |flea-bag
|fleabag |fleabane |flea beetle |fleabite |flea-bitten |fleabitten |flea bomb
|fleaborne |fleabrain |flea-brained |flea circus |flea collar |flea comb |flea
flicker |flea in one's ear |flealike |flea-louse |flea market |fleapit |flea
powder |flea-powder |fleaproof |flea-ridden |flea shampoo |fleasome |flea tree
|fleaweed |fleawort |hop flea |house flea |human flea |leaf flea |sandflea
|sand flea |snow flea |water flea }}
***** Translations
[parasitic insect]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Aghwan: [xag]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amis: [ami] , [ami]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic :
- Aragonese: [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bats: [bbl]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Budukh: [bdk]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chepang: [cdm]
- Cherokee: [chr] , [chr]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Drung: [duu]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [py]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [male] , [de] [female]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kanakanabu: [xnb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki] , [ki] [large one]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mongolian:
- Nanai: [gld]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Old East Slavic: [orv] , [orv] , [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polabian: [pox]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romagnol: [rgn]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- S'gaw Karen: [ksw]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Slovincian: [zlw-slv]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Svan: [sva]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] [chicken flea]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Talysh: [tly]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Vilamovian: [wym]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [male] , [vo] [female]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Coast Bajau: [bdr]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yámana: [yag]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yup'ik: [esu]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
[list:extant orders of insects/en]
**** Verb
[past2=flead]
1. [en] To remove fleas from (an animal).
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1861 | author=Horace William Wheelwright | title=Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist | page=192
|passage=I have seen a Lubra, or native woman, suckling two puppies; and, like
monkeys, these ladies have a particular fancy for FLEAING their dogs.}}
*** Etymology 2
Alternative forms.
**** Verb
[fleas]
1. [en] .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1605 | author=Miguel de Cervantes | title=Don Quixote | publisher=Everyman's Library | year_published=1991 | page=36
|passage=[...] he'd FLEA me alive like another St Bartholomew.}}
1. * [passage=In this Thwackum had the advantage; for while Square could only scarify the poor lad's reputation, he could FLEA his skin [...]]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Old English
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ang]