anthill

See also: ant-hill

English

An anthill

Etymology

From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant +‎ hill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænt.hɪl/

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Noun

anthill (plural anthills)

1. A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.

   Hyponym: termite mound

   Coordinate term: anthole

   • 2024 November 27, Paul Bigland, “Around the UK on nearly 80 trains...”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 48:

     On arrival at Edinburgh Waverley, I fight my way through the throngs of tourists and locals turning the place into a human anthill.

Translations

home of ants and termites

• Armenian: մրջնաբույն (hy) (mrǰnabuyn), մրջնոց (hy) (mrǰnocʻ)
• Aromanian: furnicar n, furnicami f
• Asturian: formigueru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qarışqa yuvası
• Bashkir: иләү (iləw)
• Basque: inurritegi (eu)
• Belarusian: мура́шнік m (murášnik)
• Bulgarian: мраву́няк (bg) m (mravúnjak)
• Burmese: ခြတောင်ပို့ (my) (hkra.taungpui.)
• Buryat: шоргоолзоной бута (šorgoolzonoj buta), шоргоолзоной үүр (šorgoolzonoj üür)
• Catalan: formiguer m (ants), termiter m (termites)
• Cebuano: bungtod
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟻丘 / 蚁丘 (zh) (yǐqiū)

• Czech: mraveniště (cs) n
• Danish: myretue c
• Dutch: mierenhoop (nl) m, mierennest (nl) n
• Erzya: коткудавкудо (kotkudavkudo), коткудавпизэ (kotkudavpizë)
• Esperanto: formikejo
• Estonian: sipelgapesa (et), termiidipesa
• Finnish: muurahaiskeko (fi)
• French: fourmilière (fr) f (ants), termitière (fr) f (termites)
• Friulian: furmiâr m
• Galician: formigueiro (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭიანჭველების ბუდე (č̣ianč̣velebis bude)
• German: Ameisenhaufen (de) m, Ameisenhügel m
• Greek: μυρμηγκοφωλιά (el) f (myrmigkofoliá)

  Ancient Greek: μυρμηκιά f (murmēkiá)

• Hiligaynon: lungsod
• Hindi: वल्मीक (hi) (valmīk)
• Hungarian: hangyaboly (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraþúfa (is) f
• Interlingua: formicario
• Irish: nead seangán m
• Italian: formicaio (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻塚 (ja) (ありづか, arizuka), アリの巣 (アリのす, ari no su), 蟻の塔 (ありのとう, ari no tō)
• Kalmyk: шорһлҗна үр (şorğljna ür)
• Kashubian: mrowiszcze n
• Kazakh: илеу (ileu)
• Korean: 개미집 (gaemijip), 개미총 (gaemichong), 개미둑 (gaemiduk), 개미탑 (gaemitap)
• Kyrgyz: кумурска уясы (kumurska uyası)
• Lao: ຂວຍມົດ (khuāi mot)
• Latin: formicarium n, formicarum agmen n
• Latvian: skudru pūznis m
• Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
• Macedonian: мравјалник m (mravjalnik)
• Malay: busut (ms)
• Malayalam: പുറ്റ് (ml) (puṟṟŭ), ചിതൽപുറ്റ് (citalpuṟṟŭ) (termite mound)
• Maltese: bejta tan-nemel
• Marathi: वारूळ (mr) n (vārūḷ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шоргоолжны үүр (šorgoolžny üür)

• Nahuatl:

  Classical: āzcaxālli, tzīcatepētl, āzcapōtzalli

  Highland Puebla: a̱scata̱l

  Northern Puebla: ascapotzali

  Tetelcingo: tetzicatlöli̱, tzicatlöli̱

• Navajo: wááláchíí bighan
• Norman: freunmionniéthe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maurtue m or f

  Nynorsk: maurtue f, maurtuve f

• Old English: ǣmethyll f
• Ottoman Turkish: قرنجه‌لق (karıncalık)
• Persian: آشیان مور (âšiyân-e mur)
• Polish: mrowisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: formigueiro (pt) m (ants), cupinzeiro m (termites)
• Quechua: sik'imira
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) n, mușuroi (ro) n
• Russian: мураве́йник (ru) m (muravéjnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мра̀виња̄к m

  Roman: mràvinjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: mravenisko n
• Slovene: mravljišče (sl) n
• Spanish: hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kichuguu (sw), kingulima
• Swedish: myrstack (sv) c
• Tagalog: punso, bahay-langgam, bahay-anay, pusyo
• Tajik: мурчахона (murčaxona), мӯрчахона (mürčaxona)
• Thai: รังมด (rang-mót)
• Turkish: karınca yuvası (tr)
• Tyap: a̱gban (kcg)
• Ukrainian: мура́шник m (murášnyk)
• Uzbek: chumoli uyasi
• Vietnamese: tổ kiến
• West Coast Bajau: punsu