Etymology
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damsel + fly
Pronunciation
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damselfly (plural damselflies)
- Any of various insects of the suborder Zygoptera that have long slender bodies, and are similar to dragonflies but having wings folded when at rest.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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insect
- Basque: sorgin-orratz
- Catalan: cavallet del diable, damisel·la (ca), parotet (ca) m (Valencian)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 秤仔 (chhìn-á)
- Mandarin: 豆娘 (zh) (dòuniáng)
- Danish: vandnymfe c
- Dutch: juffer (nl) f
- Esperanto: zigoptero
- Finnish: hentosudenkorento
- French: demoiselle (fr) f
- German: Kleinlibelle f, Wasserjungfer f, Seejungfer f, Schlankjungfer f
- Hebrew: שַׁפְרִירִית f (shafrirít)
- Japanese: 豆娘 (いととんぼ, itotonbo), 糸蜻蛉 (いととんぼ, itotonbo)
- Kazakh: инелік (inelık)
- Malayalam: സൂചിത്തുമ്പി (sūcittumpi)
- Maori: tīemiemi, kihitara, kēkēwai
- Navajo: tániilʼáítsʼóóz
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannymfe m or f
- Nynorsk: vassnymfe f
- Occitan: domaisèla (oc)
- Polish: łątka (pl) f
- Portuguese: donzelinha f, libelinha (pt) f
- Russian: стрекоза́ (ru) f (strekozá)
- Spanish: caballito del diablo m
- Swedish: jungfruslända c
- Welsh: mursen f
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