Pronunciation
Etymology 1
wasp
From Old English wæsp.
Noun
wasp (plural wasps)
- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee.
- A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
Translations
insect
- Albanian: grerëz, arëz
- Arabic: دبور (ar) (dabbūr) m, زنبور (ar) (zunbūr) m
- Moroccan Arabic: رزوزية (rzoziya) f
- Armenian: կրետ (hy) (kret)
- Aromanian: vaspe (rup), yiapsi (rup)
- Basque: liztor (eu)
- Belarusian: аса (be) (asá) f
- Bengali: বোলতা (bn) (bolta)
- Bulgarian: оса (bg) (osá) f
- Catalan: vespa (ca) f
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵕⵥⵥⵉ (iṛẓẓi) m
- Chamicuro: shani
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黃蜂 (cmn), 黄蜂 (cmn) (huángfēng), 胡蜂 (cmn) (húfēng)
- Czech: vosa (cs) f
- Danish: hveps (da) c, gedehams (da) c
- Darkinjung: murulgang
- Dutch: wesp (nl) f
- Esperanto: vespo (eo)
- Estonian: herilane (et)
- Finnish: ampiainen (fi)
- French: guêpe (fr) f
- Friulian: ğhespe f
- Galician: avéspora (gl) f, avespa (gl) f, nespra (gl) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Wespe (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: σφήξ m and f
- Modern: σφήκα (el) (sfíka) f
- Hebrew: צרעה (he) f
- Hindi: हड्डा (hi) (haḍḍā)
- Hungarian: darázs (hu)
- Icelandic: geitungur (is) m
- Irish: foiche (ga)
- Italian: vespa (it) f
- Japanese: 雀蜂 (ja) (すずめばち, suzumebachi), はち (ja) (hachi) (or: 蜂 (ja))
- Khmer: კრაზანა (km) (krazana), ბზიკი (km) (bziki)
- Korean: 말벌 (ko) (malbeol)
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- Kurdish:
- Sorani: زهردهواڵه (ku) (zerdewale)
- Latgalian: lapsine f
- Latin: vespa (la) f, dolichovespa (la) f
- Latvian: lapsene (lv) f, vapsene (lv) f
- Lithuanian: vapsva f, širšė f, širšuolis m (Vespa crabro)
- Macedonian: оса (mk) (ósa) f
- Malay: tebuan, penyengat (ms)
- Mongolian: морин зөгий (mn) (morin zögij)
- Navajo: tsísʼnáłtsooí
- Norwegian: veps (no) m
- Occitan: vèspa (oc) f
- Old English: wæsp (ang) m
- Persian: زنبور (fa) (zanbur)
- Polish: osa (pl) f
- Portuguese: vespa (pt)
- Romanian: viespe (ro) f
- Romansch: vespra (rm) f, viaspra (rm)
- Russian: оса (ru) (osá) f
- Sardinian: espa (sc), espe (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: speach f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: оса (sh) f, зоља (sh) f
- Roman: osa (sh) f, zolja (sh) f
- Slovak: osa (sk) f
- Slovene: osa (sl) f
- Spanish: avispa (es) f
- Swedish: geting (sv) c
- Tagalog: putakti (tl)
- Thai: ตัวต่อ (th) (dtua dtòr)
- Turkish: yaban arısı (tr)
- Ukrainian: оса (uk) (osá) f
- Vietnamese: ong bắp cày (vi)
- Volapük: (male or female) vesep (vo), (male) hivesep (vo), (female) jivesep (vo), (male or female offspring, young) vesepül (vo), (older term) lubien (vo)
- Walloon: wesse (wa) f
- Wolof: njulli-kaata bi (wo)
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Etymology 2
Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Noun
wasp (plural wasps)
- A member of the dominant American upper-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
See also
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