A praying mantis . Etymology
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Mantis from Greek μάντις ( mántis ) . Named "praying mantis" for their stance, with the forelegs held together in a way that resembles a person praying. Similar designations exist in many European as well as non-European languages. Compare for example French mante religieuse ( literally “ religious mantis ” ) , German Gottesanbeterin ( literally “ God-worshipper ” ) , Portuguese louva-a-deus ( literally “ God-praiser ” ) , Persian آخوندک ( âxundak , literally “ little cleric ” ) .
praying mantis plural praying mantises or praying mantes
Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order Mantodea
( regional , in Europe) Mantis religiosa A woman who preys on men (from the idea that female praying mantises eat males after sex). Synonyms
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Translations
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any of various predatory insects of the Mantidae family
Abinomn: tigʷərere
Afrikaans: hottentotsgod
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ m ( faras an-nabiyy )
Armenian: աղոթարար (hy) ( aġotʿarar ) , հարցուկ (hy) ( harcʿuk )
Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi
Basque: marisorgin
Belarusian: багамо́л m ( bahamól )
Bulgarian: богомо́лка f ( bogomólka )
Catalan: mantodeu m pregadeu (ca) m pregamans m
Cebuano: simbasimba
Chinese:
Dungan: хузы ( huzɨ )
Mandarin: 螳螂 (zh) ( tángláng ) , 刀螂 (zh) ( dāolang )
Czech: kudlanka nábožná kudlanka (cs) f
Danish: knæler (da) c
Dutch: bidsprinkhaan (nl) m
Esperanto: manto (eo)
Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi)
French: mante religieuse (fr) f
German: Gottesanbeterin (de) f Fangschrecke f
Greek: αλογάκι της Παναγίας (el) n ( alogáki tis Panagías )
Hebrew: גְּמַל שְׁלֹמֹה (he) m ( gamál shlomó )
Hungarian: imádkozó sáska (hu) , ájtatos manó
Ilocano: wasaywasay
Italian: mantide religiosa f
Japanese: 螳螂 蟷螂 (ja) ( かまきり, カマキリ, kamakiri, とうろう, tōrō )
Kaingang: jókaka
Khmer: កណ្ដូបសេះ ( kɑndoop seh )
Korean: 사마귀 (ko) ( samagwi ) , 당랑(螳螂) (ko) ( dangnang )
Lao: ແມງມ້າ ( mǣng mā )
Latvian: dievlūdzējs m
Lithuanian: maldininkas m
Macedonian: богомолка f ( bogomolka )
Maori: rō whē
Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
Persian: آخوندک (fa) ( âxundak )
Pnar: chyrtoh
Polish: modliszka (pl) f
Portuguese: louva-a-deus (pt) m cavalinho-de-deus m
Romanian: călugăriță (ro) f
Russian: богомо́л (ru) m ( bogomól )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: богомољка f
Roman: bogomoljka (sh) f
Slovak: kudlanka f kudlanka nábožná f
Slovene: bogomolka (sl) f
Spanish: mantis religiosa (es) f rezadora (es) f campamocha (es) f ( Mexico ) , cerbatana (es) f ( Venezuela ) , mamboretá (es) f ( Argentina, Uruguay ) , santateresa (es) f ( Spain ) , tatadiós (es) m ( Argentina ) , triquitesa f ( Western Spain, specifically Extremadura ) , usamico m ( Northwestern Argentina )
Swedish: bönsyrsa (sv) c
Tagalog: sambasamba sasamba mandadangkal
Thai: ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว ( dták-gà-dtɛɛn-dtam-kâao ) , ตั๊กแตนต่อยมวย
Turkish: peygamberdevesi (tr) , peygamber devesi (tr)
Ukrainian: богомо́л m ( bohomól )
any of various predatory insects of the Mantodea order
