gnat

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From Middle English gnat, from Old English gnætt (“gnat; midge; mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnatt, *gnattu, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz, *gnattuz (“gnat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghneHdhn-, *ghneHd- (“to gnaw; scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghen- (“to gnaw; bite; scratch; grind”). Cognate with Low German Gnatte (“gnat”), dialectal Swedish gnatt (“mosquito”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.

From gnat.

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: mug — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Dupaningan Agta: rahik — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Arabic: برغش (barḡaš) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Armenian: մոծակ (mocak) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Bashkir: серәкәй (serəkəy) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Bengali: ডাঁশ (ḍãś) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Central Bikol: nuknok — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Bulgarian: комар (komar) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Catalan: mosquit — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚋 (ruì) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚊 (wén) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Danish: myg — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Danish: stikmyg — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Dutch: mug — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Dutch: knut — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Erzya: марав (marav) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Esperanto: kulo — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Estonian: sääsk — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Faroese: mýggjabiti — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Finnish: sääski — any small insect of the order Diptera
• French: moucheron — any small insect of the order Diptera
• West-Frisian: langskonk — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Galician: mosquito — any small insect of the order Diptera
• German: Stechmücke — any small insect of the order Diptera
• German: Schnake — any small insect of the order Diptera
• German: Mücke — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Ancient Greek: κώνωψ (kṓnōps) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Greenlandic: ippernaq — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Gujarati: મચ્છર (macchar) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Hungarian: szúnyog — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Irish: corrmhíol — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Italian: moscerino — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Japanese: 蚋 (buyo) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Japanese: ブヨ (buyo) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Kapampangan: absang — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Korean: 모기 (mogi) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Latin: culex — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Latin: alucita — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Latvian: ods — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Lithuanian: mašalas — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Macedonian: мушичка (mušička) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Macedonian: комарец (komarec) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Malagasy: aloiloy — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Malayalam: നുളമ്പ് (nuḷampŭ) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Manx: meeyl — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Manx: quill — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Middle English: gnat — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Norman: bibet — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Norwegian Bokmål: knott — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knott — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Old English: gnætt — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Persian: پشه (paše) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Persian: پشهریز (pašeriz) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Polish: komar — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Portuguese: mosquito — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Portuguese: mosquitinho — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Russian: мо́шка (móška) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Russian: кома́р (komár) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-chuileag — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Serbo-Croatian: мушица — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Serbo-Croatian: комарац (mosquito) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Serbo-Croatian: mušica — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Serbo-Croatian: komarac — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Sicilian: muschitta — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Sicilian: sampagghiuni — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Sicilian: siḍḍu — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Spanish: mosquito — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Spanish: jején — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Spanish: maje — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Spanish: mime — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Swedish: stickmygga — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Tagalog: niknik — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Thai: ริ้น (hín) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Northern Thai: ᩁᩥ᩠᩶ᨶ (hín) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Turkish: sivrisinek — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Ukrainian: мошка (moška) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Ukrainian: мушка (muška) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Ukrainian: комар (komar) — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Unami: nipënës — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Vietnamese: ruồi nhuế — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Volapük: muskitil — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Volapük: himuskitil — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Volapük: jimuskitil — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Welsh: gwybed — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Woiwurrung: koke — any small insect of the order Diptera
• Finnish: Gnat — fighter type
• Finnish: Nutikka — fighter type
• German: Gnat — fighter type