locust

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• UK: /ˈləʊ.kəst/
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• US: /ˈloʊ.kəst/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lek-der.? Latin locusta Anglo-Norman locustebor. Middle English locuste English locust Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste. Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís). Noun sense 5 (“mainlander”) is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: karkalec — type of grasshopper
• Amharic: አንበጣ (ʾänbäṭa) — type of grasshopper
• Western Apache: nagonełchʼiigi — type of grasshopper
• Arabic: جَرَادَة (jarāda) — type of grasshopper
• Arabic: جراد (garād) — type of grasshopper
• Arabic: جرادة (garāda) — type of grasshopper
• Arabic: جرادة (jarāda) — type of grasshopper
• Aramaic: ܩܡܨܐ (qamṣā) — type of grasshopper
• Armenian: մորեխ (morex) — type of grasshopper
• Aromanian: lãcustã — type of grasshopper
• Aromanian: gãlãgustã — type of grasshopper
• Aromanian: scarcaletsu — type of grasshopper
• Aromanian: acridhã — type of grasshopper
• Azerbaijani: çəyirtkə — type of grasshopper
• Belarusian: саранчу́к (sarančúk) — type of grasshopper
• Belarusian: саранча́ (sarančá) — type of grasshopper
• Bengali: পঙ্গপাল (poṅgopal) — type of grasshopper
• Bulgarian: скакале́ц (skakaléc) — type of grasshopper
• Burmese: ကျိုင်းကောင် (kyuing:kaung) — type of grasshopper
• Burmese: ကျိုင် (kyuing) — type of grasshopper
• Catalan: llagosta — type of grasshopper
• Chechen: цӏоз (cʼoz) — type of grasshopper
• Cherokee: ᎶᎶ (lolo) — type of grasshopper
• Chinese Cantonese: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4) — type of grasshopper
• Chinese: хуончун (huončun) — type of grasshopper
• Chinese: 草蜢 (zh-min-nan) — type of grasshopper
• Chinese: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (hông-tiông / hông-thiông / hông-thâng) — type of grasshopper
• Chinese Mandarin: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (huángchóng) — type of grasshopper
• Wu Chinese: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (6waon-zon) — type of grasshopper
• Choctaw: washa — type of grasshopper
• Czech: saranče — type of grasshopper
• Danish: vandregræshoppe — type of grasshopper
• Danish: græshoppe — type of grasshopper
• Dutch: treksprinkhaan — type of grasshopper
• Dutch: sprinkhaan — type of grasshopper
• Egyptian: z:n-H-m-L4 (znḥm) — type of grasshopper
• Erzya: таста (tasta) — type of grasshopper
• Esperanto: akrido — type of grasshopper
• Esperanto: lokusto — type of grasshopper
• Estonian: rändtirts — type of grasshopper
• Finnish: kulkusirkka — type of grasshopper
• Fon: gbokle — type of grasshopper
• French: locuste — type of grasshopper
• French: criquet — type of grasshopper
• Galician: langosta — type of grasshopper
• Galician: lagosta — type of grasshopper
• Georgian: კალია (ḳalia) — type of grasshopper
• German: Heuschrecke — type of grasshopper
• German: Wanderheuschrecke — type of grasshopper
• Old High German: hewispranga — type of grasshopper
• Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹 (þramstei) — type of grasshopper
• Greek: ακρίδα (akrída) — type of grasshopper
• Ancient Greek: ἀκρίς (akrís) — type of grasshopper
• Hausa: fàra — type of grasshopper
• Hebrew: אַרְבֶּה (arbé) — type of grasshopper
• Hebrew: חָגָב (khagáv) — type of grasshopper
• Hindi: टिड्डी (ṭiḍḍī) — type of grasshopper
• Hungarian: sáska — type of grasshopper
• Icelandic: engispretta — type of grasshopper
• Ido: lokusto — type of grasshopper
• Irish: lócaiste — type of grasshopper
• Italian: locusta — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: 飛蝗 (batta) — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: バッタ (batta) — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: 蝗 (inago) — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: イナゴ (inago) — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: ワタリバッタ (wataribatta) — type of grasshopper
• Japanese: 蝗虫 (kōchū) — type of grasshopper
• Old Javanese: walaṅ — type of grasshopper
• Kannada: ಮಿಡತೆ (miḍate) — type of grasshopper
• Kapampangan: durun — type of grasshopper
• Kazakh: шегіртке (şegırtke) — type of grasshopper
• Khmer: កណ្ដូប (kɑɑkɑndoup) — type of grasshopper
• Korean: 메뚜기 (mettugi) — type of grasshopper
• Korean: 황충 (hwangchung) — type of grasshopper
• Central Kurdish: کولە (kule) — type of grasshopper
• Northern Kurdish: kulî — type of grasshopper
• Northern Kurdish: melex — type of grasshopper
• Kyrgyz: чегиртке (cegirtke) — type of grasshopper
• Lao: ຕັກແຕນ (tak tǣn) — type of grasshopper
• Lao: ງ້ວງ (ngūang) — type of grasshopper
• Latin: locusta — type of grasshopper
• Latvian: sisenis — type of grasshopper
• Lithuanian: skėrys — type of grasshopper
• Macedonian: скакулец (skakulec) — type of grasshopper
• Malagasy: dongara — type of grasshopper
• Malay: belalang — type of grasshopper
• Malayalam: വെട്ടുകിളി (veṭṭukiḷi) — type of grasshopper
• Maltese: ġurat — type of grasshopper
• Manchu: ᠰᡝᠪᠰᡝᡥᡝᡵᡳ (sebseheri) — type of grasshopper
• Māori: māwhitiwhiti — type of grasshopper
• Māori: rangataua — type of grasshopper
• Māori: pākaurere — type of grasshopper
• Mongolian: царцаахай (carcaaxaj) — type of grasshopper
• Mongolian: голио (golio) — type of grasshopper
• Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii — type of grasshopper
• Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii nahachaʼígíí — type of grasshopper
• Norwegian Bokmål: gresshoppe — type of grasshopper
• Old English: græsstapa — type of grasshopper
• Old English: græshoppa — type of grasshopper
• Panamint: tsapitta — type of grasshopper
• Pashto: ملخ (moláx) — type of grasshopper
• Iranian Persian: مَلَخ (malax) — type of grasshopper
• Iranian Persian: مِیگ (meyg) — type of grasshopper
• Plautdietsch: Heischrakj — type of grasshopper
• Polish: szarańcza — type of grasshopper
• Portuguese: gafanhoto — type of grasshopper
• Punjabi: ਟਿੱਡੀ (ṭiḍḍī) — type of grasshopper
• Romanian: lăcustă — type of grasshopper
• Russian: саранча́ (sarančá) — type of grasshopper
• Russian: саранчу́к (sarančúk) — type of grasshopper
• Russian: сарана́ (saraná) — type of grasshopper
• Southern Sami: kraesienjålhtja — type of grasshopper
• Santali: ᱯᱳᱦᱳ (poho) — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: ска̏кавац — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: цврчак — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: зрикавац — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: skȁkavac — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: cvrčak — type of grasshopper
• Serbo-Croatian: zrikavac — type of grasshopper
• Slovak: saranča — type of grasshopper
• Slovene: kobilica — type of grasshopper
• Southern Altai: сары мангыс (sarï mangïs) — type of grasshopper
• Southern Altai: чегертки (čegertki) — type of grasshopper
• Spanish: langosta — type of grasshopper
• Spanish: tucura — type of grasshopper
• Spanish: chapulín — type of grasshopper
• Swahili: nzige — type of grasshopper
• Swedish: gräshoppa — type of grasshopper
• Swedish: vandringsgräshoppa — type of grasshopper
• Tagalog: balang — type of grasshopper
• Tajik: малах (malax) — type of grasshopper
• Tamil: வெட்டுக்கிளி (veṭṭukkiḷi) — type of grasshopper
• Telugu: మిడత (miḍata) — type of grasshopper
• Thai: ปาทังกา (bpaa-tang-gâa) — type of grasshopper
• Tibetan: ཚ་ག་བ (tsha ga ba) — type of grasshopper
• Tibetan: ཆ་ག་པ་ (cha ga pa) — type of grasshopper
• Tigrinya: ኣንበጣ (ʾanbäṭa) — type of grasshopper
• Tocharian B: śalāp — type of grasshopper
• Tswana: tsie — type of grasshopper
• Turkish: çekirge — type of grasshopper
• Turkmen: çekirtge — type of grasshopper
• Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎗𐎁𐎊 (ỉrby) — type of grasshopper
• Ukrainian: сарана́ (saraná) — type of grasshopper
• Urdu: ٹِڈّی (ṭiḍḍī) — type of grasshopper
• Uyghur: چېكەتكە (chëketke) — type of grasshopper
• Uzbek: chigirtka — type of grasshopper
• Uzbek: malax — type of grasshopper
• Vietnamese: châu chấu — type of grasshopper
• Welsh: locust — type of grasshopper
• Wolof: njéeréer bi — type of grasshopper
• Yakut: аһыҥа (ahïŋa) — type of grasshopper
• Yiddish: היישעריק (heysherik) — type of grasshopper
• Zazaki: mele (diq) — type of grasshopper
• Zhuang: duzruemh — type of grasshopper