English
Etymology
Mantis from Greek μάντις (mántis). Named "praying mantis" for their stance, with the forelegs held together in a way that resembles a person praying. Similar designations exist in many European as well as non-European languages. Compare for example French mante religieuse (literally “religious mantis”), German Gottesanbeterin (literally “God-worshipper”), Portuguese louva-a-deus (literally “God-praiser”), Persian آخوندک (âxundak, literally “little cleric”).
Pronunciation
Noun
praying mantis (plural praying mantises or praying mantes)
- Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order Mantodea that have a prayer-like stance.
- (regional, in Europe) A mantid of the species Mantis religiosa.
- A woman who preys on men (from the idea that female praying mantises eat males after sex).
Synonyms
Translations
any of various predatory insects of the Mantidae family
- Abinomn: tigʷərere
- Afrikaans: hottentotsgod
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m (faras an-nabiyy)
- Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) (aġotʻarar), հարցուկ (hy) (harcʻuk)
- Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi
- Basque: marisorgin
- Belarusian: багамо́л m (bahamól)
- Bulgarian: богомо́лка f (bogomólka)
- Catalan: mantodeu m, pregadeu (ca) m, pregamans m
- Cebuano: simbasimba, bayingbaying
- Chinese:
- Dungan: хузы (huzɨ)
- Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) (tángláng), 刀螂 (zh) (dāolang)
- Czech: kudlanka nábožná, kudlanka (cs) f
- Danish: knæler (da) c
- Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m
- Esperanto: manto (eo)
- Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi)
- French: mante religieuse (fr) f
- German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f, Fangschrecke f
- Greek: αλογάκι της Παναγίας (el) n (alogáki tis Panagías)
- Hebrew: גְּמַל שְׁלֹמֹה (he) m (gamál shlomó)
- Hungarian: imádkozó sáska (hu), ájtatos manó
- Ilocano: wasaywasay
- Italian: mantide religiosa f
- Japanese: 螳螂 (ja), 蟷螂 (ja) (かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō)
- Kaingang: jókaka
- Khmer: កណ្ដូបសេះ (kɑndoop seh)
- Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi), 당랑(螳螂) (ko) (dangnang)
- Lao: ແມງມ້າ (mǣng mā)
- Latvian: dievlūdzējs m
- Lithuanian: maldininkas m
- Macedonian: богомолка f (bogomolka)
- Malay: mentadak
- Maori: rō, whē
- Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
- Persian: آخوندک (fa) (âxundak)
- Pnar: chyrtoh
- Polish: modliszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m, cavalinho-de-deus m
- Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f
- Russian: богомо́л (ru) m (bogomól)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: богомољка f
- Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f
- Slovak: kudlanka f, kudlanka nábožná f
- Slovene: bogomolka (sl) f
- Spanish: mantis religiosa (es) f, rezadora (es) f, campamocha (es) f (Mexico), cerbatana (es) f (Venezuela), mamboretá (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay), santateresa (es) f (Spain), tatadiós (es) m (Argentina), triquitesa f (Western Spain, specifically Extremadura), usamico m (Northwestern Argentina), carpintesa f, mantis (es) f
- Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv) c
- Tagalog: sambasamba, sasamba, mandadangkal
- Thai: ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว (dták-gà-dtɛɛn-dtam-kâao), ตั๊กแตนต่อยมวย
- Turkish: peygamberdevesi (tr), peygamber devesi (tr)
- Ukrainian: богомо́л m (bohomól)
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any of various predatory insects of the Mantodea order