anthill

See also: ant-hill

Contents

English

An anthill

Etymology

From Middle English ametehul, from Old English ǣmethyll (“anthill”), equivalent to ant +‎ hill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænt.hɪl/

Noun

anthill (plural anthills)

1. A cone-shaped formation constructed from sediment and other available materials by ants or termites. The colony nests underneath this cone.

Translations

home of ants and termites

• Aromanian: furnicar n, furnicami f
• Asturian: formigueru m
• Bashkir: иләү (iläw)
• Basque: inurritegi (eu)
• Belarusian: мура́шнік m (murášnik)
• Bulgarian: мравуняк (bg) m (mravunjak)
• Catalan: formiguer m (ants), termiter m (termites)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟻丘 (zh), 蚁丘 (zh) (yǐqiū)

• Czech: mraveniště (cs) n
• Estonian: sipelgapesa (et), termiidipesa
• Finnish: muurahaiskeko (fi)
• French: fourmilière (fr) f (ants), termitière (fr) f (termites)
• Friulian: furmiâr m
• Galician: formigueiro (gl) m
• German: Ameisenhaufen (de) m, Ameisenhügel m
• Greek: μυρμηγκοφωλιά (el) f (myrmigkofoliá)
• Hungarian: hangyaboly (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraþúfa (is) f
• Interlingua: formicario
• Italian: formicaio (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻塚 (ありづか, arizuka)
• Latin: formicarium n, formicarum agmen n

• Macedonian: мравјалник m (mrávjalnik)
• Malay: busut
• Maltese: bejta tan-nemel
• Mongolian: шоргоолжны үүр (šorgoolžny üür)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical: āzcaxālli, tzīcatepētl, āzcapōtzalli

  Highland Puebla: a̱scata̱l

  Northern Puebla: ascapotzali

  Tetelcingo: tetzicatlöli̱, tzicatlöli̱

• Navajo: wááláchíí bighan
• Norman: freunmionniéthe f
• Old English: ǣmethyll m
• Persian: آشیان مور‎‎ (âšiyan-e mur)
• Polish: mrowisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: formigueiro m (ants), cupinzeiro m (termites)
• Quechua: sik'imira
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) n, mușuroi (ro) n
• Russian: мураве́йник (ru) m (muravéjnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мравињак m

  Roman: mravinjak (sh) m

• Slovene: mravljišče (sl) n
• Spanish: hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kishugu (sw)
• Swedish: myrstack c
• Tagalog: punso, bahay-langgam
• Turkish: karınca yuvası (tr)
• Ukrainian: мура́шник m (murášnyk)

See also

• Myrmidon
• myrmidon