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From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis.
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mantis (plural mantises or mantes)
- Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.
- A green colour, like that of many mantises.
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any of various large insects of the order Mantodea
- Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m (faras an-nabiyy), سُرْعُوف m (surʕūf)
- Hijazi Arabic: سَرْعُوف m (sarʕūf)
- Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) (aġotʿarar)
- Assamese: গাগিনী (gagini)
- Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi
- Belarusian: багамо́л m (bahamól)
- Bulgarian: богомо́лка f (bogomólka)
- Catalan: pregadeu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) (tángláng), 刀螂 (zh) (dāolang)
- Corsican: ghjumenta di preti
- Czech: kudlanka (cs) f
- Danish: knæler (da) c
- Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m
- Esperanto: manto (eo)
- Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi)
- French: mante (fr) f
- Galician: barbantesa (gl) f, galbana (gl) f
- Georgian: ჩოქელა (čokela)
- German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f, Fangschrecke f
- Greek:
- Ancient: μάντις m (mántis)
- Italian: mantide (it) f
- Japanese: 螳螂, 蟷螂 (ja) (かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō)
- Kazakh: дәуіт (däuıt)
- Korean: 사마귀 (ko) (samagwi), 당랑(螳螂) (ko) (dangnang)
- Lithuanian: maldininkas m
- Macedonian: богомолка f (bogomolka)
- Malay: mentadak
- Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡳᠶᡝᠨ (heliyen)
- Maori: rō, whē
- Mongolian: цөгөрцөг (cögörcög)
- Nandi: chepkoima
- Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
- Norwegian: kneler m
- Persian: آخوندک (fa) (âxundak)
- Polish: modliszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m, mantídeo m
- Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f
- Russian: богомо́л (ru) m (bogomól)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: богомољка f
- Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f
- Slovak: kudlanka f
- Slovene: bogomoljka f
- Spanish: mantis (es) f, mantis religiosa (es), santateresa (es) f, (South América) mamboretá (es) f, mantodeo m (scientific)
- Sundanese: ᮎᮧᮀᮎᮧᮛᮀ (congcorang)
- Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv)
- Ukrainian: богомо́л m (bohomól)
- Vietnamese: bọ ngựa (vi) (蜅馭), ngựa trời (馭𡗶)
- Welsh: mantis m
- Zulu: isithwalambiza class 7/8
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- IPA(key): /ˈmantis/ [ˈmãn̪.t̪is]
- Rhymes: -antis
- Syllabification: man‧tis
mantis f (plural mantis)
- mantis
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