adj
Meaning 1
Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- beetle brows
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
beetle
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbiːtəl/
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[ˈbɪi̯thəl] ~ [ˈbɪi̯thl̩]
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/ˈbiɾəl/ t-flapping
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[ˈbɪi̯ɾəl] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ɾl̩] t-flapping
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/ˈbiʔəl/ t-glottalization
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[ˈbɪi̯ʔəl] ~ [ˈbɪi̯ʔl̩] t-glottalization
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rhymes with -iːtəl
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homophone: Beatle
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homophone: beadle (t-flapping)
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Australian: /ˈbiː.təl/
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Australian: [ˈbɪi̯.ɾəl]
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noun
Meaning 2
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Examples
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:beetle.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
Obsolete spelling of betel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 8
A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Bug
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He beetled off on his vacation.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 10
To loom over; to extend or jut (above).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Examples
- The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To beat with a heavy mallet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 12
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to beetle cotton goods
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Synonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 13
jutting or overhanging
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- beetle brows
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: beetling
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insect
Narrower terms: tiger beetle, ladybug, ladybeetle, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle, ground beetle, carabid beetle, firefly, lightning bug, long-horned beetle, longicorn, longicorn beetle, leaf beetle, chrysomelid, carpet beetle, carpet bug, clerid beetle, clerid, lamellicorn beetle, elaterid beetle, elater, elaterid, water beetle, whirligig beetle, deathwatch beetle, deathwatch, Xestobium rufovillosum, weevil, blister beetle, meloid, bark beetle, rove beetle, Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis
noun
Meaning 15
a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mallet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hammer
Narrower terms: carpenter's mallet, gavel
verb
Meaning 16
beat with a beetle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: beat
verb
Meaning 17
fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He beetled up the staircase
- They beetled off home
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
verb
Meaning 18
be suspended over or hang over
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overhang
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hang
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English bitel? Proto-Indo-European *h3bhrúHsder. Proto-Germanic *brūwō Proto-West Germanic *brūu Old English brū Middle English brouwe Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed Middle English brouwed Middle English bitel-brouwed English beetle From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil Old English bitula, bitela, bītel Middle English bitle, bitel, bityl, bytylle English beetle From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhew-der.? Proto-Germanic *bautaną Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.? Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Germanic *bautilaz Proto-West Germanic *bautil Old English bīetelder. Old English bȳtel Middle English betel English beetle From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
Borrowed from Portuguese bétele, from Malayalam വെറ്റില (veṟṟila) or Tamil வெற்றிலை (veṟṟilai).
From beetle, as a calque of German Käfer.
Across languages
Translations
201 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: brumbull — insect
- Albanian: zhuzhak — insect
- Southern Altai: коҥус (koŋus) — insect
- Amharic: ጢንዚዛ (ṭinziza) — insect
- Arabic: خُنْفُسَاء (ḵunfusāʔ) — insect
- Arabic: جيز (gīz) — insect
- Arabic: خُنْفُسانة (ḵunfusāna) — insect
- Aragonese: escarabaxo — insect
- Armenian: բզեզ (bzez) — insect
- Asturian: escarabayu — insect
- Azerbaijani: böcək — insect
- West Coast Bajau: utod — insect
- Banjarese: karariang — insect
- Bashkir: ҡуңыҙ (quñıź) — insect
- Basque: kakalardo — insect
- Belarusian: жук (žuk) — insect
- Belarusian: цвердакры́лы (cvjerdakrýly) — insect
- Bengali: গুবরে পোকা (gubore pōka) — insect
- Bau Bidayuh: gieng — insect
- Breton: c'hwil — insect
- Bulgarian: бръ́мбар (brǎ́mbar) — insect
- Burmese: ပိုးတောင်မာ (pui:taungma) — insect
- Catalan: escarabat — insect
- Cebuano: bakukang — insect
- Chinese Cantonese: 甲蟲 /甲虫 (gaap3 cung4) — insect
- Hakka Chinese: 蛄仔 (kû-é) — insect
- Chinese: 龜仔 /龟仔 (ku-á) — insect
- Chinese Mandarin: 甲蟲 /甲虫 (jiǎchóng) — insect
- Chinese Mandarin: 甲殼蟲 /甲壳虫 (jiǎqiàochóng, jiǎkéchóng) — insect
- Chukchi: тыӄиӈэвыт (tyqiṇėvyt) — insect
- Crimean Tatar: qoñuz — insect
- Czech: brouk — insect
- Danish: bille — insect
- Dutch: kever — insect
- Dzongkha: ཨ་ཝ་གླང (a wa glang) — insect
- Egyptian: a:p-SA-A-i-i-L1 (ꜥpšꜣy) — insect
- Esperanto: skarabo — insect
- Estonian: mardikas — insect
- Faroese: klukka — insect
- Finnish: kovakuoriainen — insect
- French: scarabée — insect
- Old French: escharbot — insect
- Galician: escaravello — insect
- Georgian: ხოჭო (xoč̣o) — insect
- German: Käfer — insect
- German: Chäfer — insect
- Greek: σκαθάρι (skathári) — insect
- Ancient Greek: κάνθαρος (kántharos) — insect
- Greenlandic: sikannertooq — insect
- Hebrew: חִפּוּשִׁית — insect
- Hebrew: חיפושית (khipushít) — insect
- Hindi: गुबरैला (gubrailā) — insect
- Hindi: भृंग (bhŕṅg) — insect
- Hungarian: bogár — insect
- Icelandic: bjalla — insect
- Indonesian: kumbang — insect
- Ingrian: pöröläin — insect
- Irish: ciaróg — insect
- Italian: coleottero — insect
- Italian: scarabeo — insect
- Japanese: 甲虫 (kōchū) — insect
- Javanese: kumbang — insect
- Kazakh: қоңыз (qoñyz) — insect
- Khmer: កញ្ចុកបត្តសត្វ (kañcoʼ kaʼbattaʼsat) — insect
- Korean: 갑충 (gapchung) — insect
- Kyrgyz: коңуз (koŋuz) — insect
- Ladin: chëifer — insect
- Lao: ດ້ວງ (dūang) — insect
- Lao: ແມງ (mǣng) — insect
- Latgalian: vabale — insect
- Latgalian: vaguls — insect
- Latin: coleopterum — insect
- Latvian: vabole — insect
- Lithuanian: vabalas — insect
- Low German: Käver — insect
- Low German: Sever — insect
- Low German: Säver — insect
- Low German: Sebber — insect
- Luxembourgish: Kiewerlek — insect
- Macedonian: бумбар (bumbar) — insect
- Macedonian: тврдокрилец (tvrdokrilec) — insect
- Malagasy: borera — insect
- Malay: kumbang — insect
- Brunei Malay: kumbang — insect
- Malay: کومبڠ — insect
- Malayalam: വണ്ട് (vaṇṭŭ) — insect
- Malayalam: ഭ്രമരം (bhramaraṁ) — insect
- Maltese: ħanfusa — insect
- Māori: pītara — insect
- Māori: tātaka — insect
- Māori: pāpapa — insect
- Māori: pepeke — insect
- Maybrat: kwiak — insect
- Central Melanau: buyun — insect
- Mongolian: цох (cox) — insect
- Mongolian: ᠴᠣᠬᠤ (čoqu) — insect
- Navajo: chéłchaaʼ — insect
- Neapolitan: scarrafone — insect
- Norwegian Bokmål: bille — insect
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bille — insect
- Occitan: escarabat — insect
- Old English: ċeafor — insect
- Pannonian Rusyn: буба (buba) — insect
- Pannonian Rusyn: хробак (xrobak) — insect
- Pashto: ګونګټ (gungᶕṭ) — insect
- Dari: قَانْغوزَک (qānġōzak) — insect
- Iranian Persian: سوسْک (susk) — insect
- Plautdietsch: Kjniepa — insect
- Polish: chrząszcz — insect
- Polish: żuk — insect
- Portuguese: escaravelho — insect
- Portuguese: besouro — insect
- Quechua: akatanga — insect
- Romanian: gândac — insect
- Russian: жук (žuk) — insect
- Russian: жесткокры́лый (žestkokrýlyj) — insect
- Northern Sami: gobbá — insect
- Sanskrit: भ्रमर (bhramara) — insect
- Scottish Gaelic: daol — insect
- Scottish Gaelic: daolag — insect
- Serbo-Croatian: тврдокрилац — insect
- Serbo-Croatian: бу̏ба — insect
- Serbo-Croatian: tvrdokrilac — insect
- Serbo-Croatian: bȕba — insect
- Shor: кӱйе (küye) — insect
- Slovak: chrobák — insect
- Slovene: hrošč — insect
- Lower Sorbian: bruk — insect
- Upper Sorbian: žuk — insect
- Spanish: escarabajo — insect
- Spanish: acatanca — insect
- Spanish: catanga — insect
- Sranan Tongo: asege — insect
- Sudovian: grombōle — insect
- Swahili: mende — insect
- Swedish: skalbagge — insect
- Tajik: гамбуск (gambusk) — insect
- Tamil: வண்டு (vaṇṭu) — insect
- Tatar: бөҗәк (böcäk) — insect
- Tatar: коңгыз (qoñğız) — insect
- Telugu: భ్రమరం (bhramaraṁ) — insect
- Thai: ด้วง (dûuang) — insect
- Thai: แมลง (má-lɛɛng) — insect
- Thai: แมง (mɛɛng) — insect
- Tibetan: བསེ་ལེ་པད་གོག (bse le pad gog) — insect
- Tigrinya: ሕንዚዝ (ḥənziz) — insect
- Tswana: khukhwane — insect
- Turkish: böcek — insect
- Turkmen: tomzak — insect
- Ukrainian: жук (žuk) — insect
- Ukrainian: джук (džuk) — insect
- Ukrainian: хрущ (xrušč) — insect
- Ukrainian: твердокри́лий (tverdokrýlyj) — insect
- Urdu: بَھون٘را (bha͠urā) — insect
- Urdu: گوبْرِیلا (gobrīlā) — insect
- Uyghur: قوڭغۇز (qongghuz) — insect
- Uzbek: qoʻngʻiz — insect
- Vietnamese: bọ cánh cứng — insect
- Volapük: cäf — insect
- Volapük: karab — insect
- Welsh: chwilen — insect
- Woiwurrung: maimborogul — insect
- Wolof: gunóor bi — insect
- Yakut: хомурдуос (qomurduos) — insect
- Yiddish: דזשוכע (dzhukhe) — insect
- Yiddish: זשוק (zhuk) — insect
- Bulgarian: трамбовка (trambovka) — mallet
- Finnish: puunuija — mallet
- French: mailloche — mallet
- German: Holzhammer — mallet
- Ottoman Turkish: طوقماق (tokmak) — mallet
- Bulgarian: бръмбар (brǎmbar) — Volkswagen car
- Catalan: escarabat — Volkswagen car
- Chinese Mandarin: 甲殼蟲 /甲壳虫 (Jiǎqiàochóng) — Volkswagen car
- Dutch: Kever — Volkswagen car
- Estonian: põrnikas — Volkswagen car
- Finnish: kupla — Volkswagen car
- French: Coccinelle — Volkswagen car
- German: Käfer — Volkswagen car
- Greek: Σκαραβαίος (Skaravaíos) — Volkswagen car
- Greek: Σκαθάρι (Skathári) — Volkswagen car
- Hebrew: חיפושית (khipushít) — Volkswagen car
- Italian: maggiolino — Volkswagen car
- Navajo: chidí néʼéshtiłí — Volkswagen car
- Norwegian: boble — Volkswagen car
- Polish: garbus — Volkswagen car
- Portuguese: fusca — Volkswagen car
- Portuguese: carocha — Volkswagen car
- Romanian: broscuță — Volkswagen car
- Russian: Фольксваген Жук (Folʹksvagen Žuk) — Volkswagen car
- Slovene: hrošč — Volkswagen car
- Spanish: escarabajo — Volkswagen car
- Spanish: Vocho — Volkswagen car
- Spanish: fusca — Volkswagen car
- Swedish: Volkswagen Typ 1 — Volkswagen car
- Swedish: folkvagn — Volkswagen car
- Swedish: folka — Volkswagen car
- Swedish: bubbla — Volkswagen car
- Swedish: bagge — Volkswagen car
- Turkish: tosbağa — Volkswagen car
- Yoruba: ìjàpá — Volkswagen car
Real reading context