flea

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• /ˈfliː/
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From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, flēa, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (compare West Frisian flie, Low German Flo, Flö, Dutch vlo, German Floh, Icelandic fló), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, *plówkos, from or akin to Proto-Indo-European *plus- (compare Latin pulex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi)). The archaic plural fleen is from Middle English fleen, flen, from Old English flēan (“fleas”).

Alternative forms.

212 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аӡ (adz) — parasitic insect
• Afrikaans: vlooi — parasitic insect
• Albanian: plesht — parasitic insect
• Amis: 'atimla^ — parasitic insect
• Amis: 'atimela — parasitic insect
• Arabic: بُرْغُوث (burḡūṯ) — parasitic insect
• Arabic: برغوت (barḡūt) — parasitic insect
• Aragonese: pulz — parasitic insect
• Aramaic: ܦܘܪܬܥܢܐ (purtaʿnā) — parasitic insect
• Armenian: լու (lu) — parasitic insect
• Aromanian: puric — parasitic insect
• Asturian: pulga — parasitic insect
• Avar: чӏетӏ (čʼetʼ) — parasitic insect
• Azerbaijani: birə — parasitic insect
• Bashkir: бөрсә (börsə) — parasitic insect
• Basque: arkakuso — parasitic insect
• Bats: ფსიკ (psiḳ) — parasitic insect
• Belarusian: блыха́ (blyxá) — parasitic insect
• Bengali: উপমক্ষিকা (upomokkhika) — parasitic insect
• Central Bikol: purgas — parasitic insect
• Budukh: кӏид (kʼid) — parasitic insect
• Bulgarian: бълха́ (bǎlhá) — parasitic insect
• Burmese: လှေး (hle:) — parasitic insect
• Burmese: အလှေး (a.hle:) — parasitic insect
• Catalan: puça — parasitic insect
• Chechen: сагал (sagal) — parasitic insect
• Chepang: य्हुङः — parasitic insect
• Cherokee: ᏣᏑᎦ (tsasuga) — parasitic insect
• Cherokee: ᏧᎦ (tsuga) — parasitic insect
• Chinese: гызо (gɨzo) — parasitic insect
• Chinese: гәзо (gəzo) — parasitic insect
• Chinese: 虼蚤 (zh-min-nan) — parasitic insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚤 (zǎo) — parasitic insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 跳蚤 (tiàozǎo) — parasitic insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 虼蚤 (gèzǎo) — parasitic insect
• Choctaw: kʋshti — parasitic insect
• Crimean Tatar: bürçe — parasitic insect
• Czech: blecha — parasitic insect
• Dalmatian: pulco — parasitic insect
• Danish: loppe — parasitic insect
• Drung: svli — parasitic insect
• Dutch: vlo — parasitic insect
• Egyptian: p-i-i-F27 (py) — parasitic insect
• Esperanto: pulo — parasitic insect
• Estonian: kirp — parasitic insect
• Ewe: dosu — parasitic insect
• Faroese: loppa — parasitic insect
• Fijian: kutu — parasitic insect
• Finnish: kirppu — parasitic insect
• French: puce — parasitic insect
• Friulian: pulç — parasitic insect
• Friulian: pulč — parasitic insect
• Galician: pulga — parasitic insect
• Georgian: რწყილი (rc̣q̇ili) — parasitic insect
• German: Floh — parasitic insect
• German: Flohmännchen — parasitic insect
• German: Flohweibchen — parasitic insect
• Greek: ψύλλος (psýllos) — parasitic insect
• Ancient Greek: ψύλλη (psúllē) — parasitic insect
• Ancient Greek: ψύλλος (psúllos) — parasitic insect
• Haitian Creole: pis — parasitic insect
• Hawaiian: ʻuku — parasitic insect
• Hebrew: פַּרְעוֹשׁ (par'ósh) — parasitic insect
• Hindi: पिस्सू (pissū) — parasitic insect
• Hungarian: bolha — parasitic insect
• Icelandic: fló — parasitic insect
• Ilocano: timel — parasitic insect
• Indonesian: pinjal — parasitic insect
• Ingrian: kerppu — parasitic insect
• Ingush: сагал (sagal) — parasitic insect
• Interlingua: pulice — parasitic insect
• Irish: dreancaid — parasitic insect
• Italian: pulce — parasitic insect
• Japanese: 蚤 (nomi) — parasitic insect
• Japanese: ノミ (nomi) — parasitic insect
• Kanakanabu: ʼatiimua — parasitic insect
• S'gaw Karen: ကျံ (klee) — parasitic insect
• Kazakh: бүрге (bürge) — parasitic insect
• Khmer: ចៃ (cay) — parasitic insect
• Khmer: ដង្កែ (dɑɑdɑngkae) — parasitic insect
• Khmer: អំបាត (ʼɑmbaat) — parasitic insect
• Kikuyu: thuya — parasitic insect
• Kikuyu: kĩroboto — parasitic insect
• Korean: 벼룩 (byeoruk) — parasitic insect
• Central Kurdish: كێچ — parasitic insect
• Northern Kurdish: kêç — parasitic insect
• Southern Kurdish: کەیک (keyk) — parasitic insect
• Kyrgyz: бүргө (bürgö) — parasitic insect
• Lao: ຫມັດ (mat) — parasitic insect
• Latin: pūlex — parasitic insect
• Latvian: blusa — parasitic insect
• Laz: მწკირი (mǯǩiri) — parasitic insect
• Lezgi: чӏут (č̣ut) — parasitic insect
• Lithuanian: blusa — parasitic insect
• Lombard: pures — parasitic insect
• Lombard: puresa — parasitic insect
• Lombard: pules — parasitic insect
• Luxembourgish: Flou — parasitic insect
• Macedonian: болва (bolva) — parasitic insect
• Malagasy: parasy — parasitic insect
• Malay: pinjal — parasitic insect
• Malayalam: ചെള്ള് (ceḷḷŭ) — parasitic insect
• Maltese: bergħud — parasitic insect
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᡵᠠᠨ (suran) — parasitic insect
• Manx: jargan — parasitic insect
• Mingrelian: წყირი (c̣q̇iri) — parasitic insect
• Mongolian: бүүрэг (büüreg) — parasitic insect
• Mongolian: нохой бөөс (noxoj böös) — parasitic insect
• Classical Nahuatl: tecpin — parasitic insect
• Nanai: сора (sora) — parasitic insect
• Navajo: yaaʼ — parasitic insect
• Neapolitan: pollece — parasitic insect
• Norwegian Bokmål: loppe — parasitic insect
• Norwegian Nynorsk: loppe — parasitic insect
• Occitan: piuse — parasitic insect
• Northern Ohlone: pó̄r — parasitic insect
• Ojibwe: babig — parasitic insect
• Okinawan: 蚤 (numi) — parasitic insect
• Old East Slavic: блъха (blŭxa) — parasitic insect
• Old East Slavic: блоха (bloxa) — parasitic insect
• Old East Slavic: бълоха (bŭloxa) — parasitic insect
• Old English: flēah — parasitic insect
• Old Norse: fló — parasitic insect
• Oromo: tafkii — parasitic insect
• Pashto: ورږه (wrə́ẓa) — parasitic insect
• Persian: کک (kak) — parasitic insect
• Persian: کیک (kayk) — parasitic insect
• Plautdietsch: Hupsflieej — parasitic insect
• Polabian: blåxă — parasitic insect
• Polish: pchła — parasitic insect
• Portuguese: pulga — parasitic insect
• Quechua: piki — parasitic insect
• Romagnol: pólṣa — parasitic insect
• Romanian: purice — parasitic insect
• Romansh: pilesch — parasitic insect
• Romansh: pelisch — parasitic insect
• Romansh: pelesch — parasitic insect
• Romansh: pülesch — parasitic insect
• Romansh: pülsch — parasitic insect
• Russian: блоха́ (bloxá) — parasitic insect
• Sanskrit: प्लुषि (plúṣi) — parasitic insect
• Sardinian: puighi — parasitic insect
• Sardinian: puliche — parasitic insect
• Sardinian: pulige — parasitic insect
• Sardinian: pulighe — parasitic insect
• Sardinian: pulixi — parasitic insect
• Scots: flae — parasitic insect
• Scottish Gaelic: deargad — parasitic insect
• Scottish Gaelic: deargann — parasitic insect
• Serbo-Croatian: бу̀ва — parasitic insect
• Serbo-Croatian: бу̀ха — parasitic insect
• Serbo-Croatian: bùva — parasitic insect
• Serbo-Croatian: bùha — parasitic insect
• Sicilian: pùlici — parasitic insect
• Sicilian: puci — parasitic insect
• Sicilian: purci — parasitic insect
• Sinhalese: බලුමැක්කා (balumækkā) — parasitic insect
• Slovak: blcha — parasitic insect
• Slovene: bólha — parasitic insect
• Slovincian: pchla — parasitic insect
• Somali: booddo — parasitic insect
• Lower Sorbian: pcha — parasitic insect
• Lower Sorbian: bcha — parasitic insect
• Upper Sorbian: tcha — parasitic insect
• Upper Sorbian: pcha — parasitic insect
• Spanish: pulga — parasitic insect
• Svan: ზჷსყ (zəsq̇) — parasitic insect
• Swahili: kiroboto — parasitic insect
• Swedish: loppa — parasitic insect
• Tabasaran: чӏуд (č̣ud) — parasitic insect
• Tagalog: pulgas — parasitic insect
• Tagalog: hanip — parasitic insect
• Tajik: кайк (kayk) — parasitic insect
• Talysh: kek — parasitic insect
• Tamil: தெள்ளு (teḷḷu) — parasitic insect
• Tamil: செள்ளு (ceḷḷu) — parasitic insect
• Tamil: தெள்கு (teḷku) — parasitic insect
• Taos: phìayána — parasitic insect
• Tarifit: šurdu — parasitic insect
• Tatar: борча (borça) — parasitic insect
• Tewa: shuwa — parasitic insect
• Thai: หมัด (màt) — parasitic insect
• Tibetan: ལྗི་བ (lji ba) — parasitic insect
• Turkish: pire — parasitic insect
• Ottoman Turkish: پیره (pire) — parasitic insect
• Ottoman Turkish: كیك (keyk) — parasitic insect
• Turkmen: büre — parasitic insect
• Ukrainian: блоха́ (bloxá) — parasitic insect
• Urdu: پسو (pissū) — parasitic insect
• Uyghur: بۈرگە (bürge) — parasitic insect
• Uzbek: burga — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pulç — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pulxo — parasitic insect
• Venetan: polxe — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pùlexe — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pùłexe — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pùłega — parasitic insect
• Venetan: pùlega — parasitic insect
• Vietnamese: bọ chét — parasitic insect
• Vilamovian: fłuch — parasitic insect
• Volapük: flib — parasitic insect
• Volapük: hiflib — parasitic insect
• Volapük: jiflib — parasitic insect
• Welsh: chwain — parasitic insect
• Woiwurrung: moon-ong — parasitic insect
• Wolof: fel wi — parasitic insect
• Yakut: былахы (bïlaqï) — parasitic insect
• Yámana: šinuš — parasitic insect
• Yiddish: פֿלוי (floy) — parasitic insect
• Yup'ik: keggerpak — parasitic insect
• Zazaki: kekı (diq) — parasitic insect
• Zhuang: maet — parasitic insect