mantis

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• /ˈmæntɪs/
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From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ (faras an-nabiyy) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Arabic: سُرْعُوف (surʕūf) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Arabic: سَرْعُوف (sarʕūf) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Armenian: աղոթարար (aġotʻarar) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Assamese: গাগিনী (gagini) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Belarusian: багамо́л (bahamól) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Bulgarian: богомо́лка (bogomólka) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Catalan: pregadeu — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Chinese Mandarin: 螳螂 (tángláng) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Chinese Mandarin: 刀螂 (dāolang) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Corsican: ghjumenta di preti — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Czech: kudlanka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Danish: knæler — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Dutch: bidsprinkhaan — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Esperanto: manto — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Finnish: rukoilijasirkka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• French: mante — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Galician: barbantesa — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Galician: galbana — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Georgian: ჩოქელა (čokela) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• German: Gottesanbeterin — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• German: Fangschrecke — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Ancient Greek: μάντις (mántis) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Italian: mantide — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Japanese: 螳螂 — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Japanese: 蟷螂 — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Kazakh: дәуіт (däuıt) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Korean: 사마귀 (samagwi) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Korean: 당랑 (dangnang) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Lithuanian: maldininkas — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Macedonian: богомолка (bogomolka) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Malay: mentadak — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠨ (heliyen) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Māori: rō — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Māori: whē — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Mongolian: цөгөрцөг (cögörcög) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Nandi: chepkoima — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Navajo: Naakaii náázééł — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Norwegian: kneler — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Persian: آخوندک (âxundak) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Polish: modliszka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Portuguese: louva-a-deus — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Portuguese: mantídeo — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Romanian: călugăriță — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Russian: богомо́л (bogomól) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Serbo-Croatian: богомољка — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Serbo-Croatian: bogomoljka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Slovak: kudlanka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Slovene: bogomoljka — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: mantis — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: mantis religiosa — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: santateresa — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: (South América) mamboretá — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: mantodeo — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Spanish: campamocha — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Sundanese: ᮎᮧᮀᮎᮧᮛᮀ (congcorang) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Swedish: bönsyrsa — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Tày: càn mạ — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Tày: mèng mạ — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Tày: hảm khoan — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Ukrainian: богомо́л (bohomól) — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Vietnamese: bọ ngựa — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Vietnamese: ngựa trời — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Welsh: mantis — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
• Zulu: isithwalambiza — any of various large insects of the order Mantodea