English
Etymology
From crane + fly.
Pronunciation
Noun
cranefly (plural craneflies)
- Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
fly of the suborder Tipulomorpha
- Arabic: طَيْثَار m (ṭayṯār)
- Chinese: 大蚊 (zh)
- Cornish: kelyonen aran f
- Czech: tiplice f
- Danish: stankelben n
- Dutch: langpootmug (nl) f
- Esperanto: tipolo (eo)
- Finnish: vaaksiainen (fi)
- French: tipule (fr) f
- German: Schnake (de) (especially Southern Germany), Gelse (de) f (Austria), Mücke (de) f (universal, but usually a smaller one), Schneider (de) m (Northern Rhineland, Münsterland, Southern Lower Saxony), Schuster (de) m (far Northern Germany)
- Greek: αλογατάκι (el) n (alogatáki)
- Icelandic: hrossafluga f
- Irish: snáthaid an diabhail f, snáthaid an phúca f, ruamann na gcoinneal m, galán m
- Italian: tipula f
- Japanese: ガガンボ (ja) (gaganbo)
- Korean: 각다귀 (gakdagwi)
- Low German:
- German Low German: Schooster m, Snieder m, Snaak f
- Macedonian: долго́ножец m (dolgónožec)
- Manx: bwoid skeddan m
- Maori: pekepeke-haratua, matua waeroa
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тэмээлзгэнэ (mn) (temeelzgene)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡᠯᠵᠢᠭᠡᠨᠡ (temegelǰigen-e)
- Navajo: tsʼíʼii jáádnézí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stankelbein n
- Polish: koziułka f, komarnica f
- Portuguese: pernilongo (pt) m, melga (pt) f, tira-olhos m, mosquito-tira-olhos m
- Romansch: tipla f
- Russian: долгоно́жка (ru) f (dolgonóžka)
- Scots: Willie-long-legs (Orkney)
- Slovak: tipuľa f
- Spanish: típula (es) f, zancudo (es) m
- Swedish: harkrank (sv) c, pappa långben (sv) c
- Ukrainian: довгоніжка f (dovhonižka), довгоніг m (dovhonih)
- Welsh: pryf teiliwr m, pryf cannwyll m
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