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)

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

Translations

home of ants and termites

Armenian: մրջնաբույն (hy) (mrǰnabuyn), մրջնոց (hy) (mrǰnocʿ)
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 (kotkudavpize)
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)
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: skurdu pūznis m
Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
Macedonian: мравјалник m (mravjalnik)
Malay: busut
Malayalam: പുറ്റ് (ml) (puṟṟŭ), ചിതൽപുറ്റ് (citalpuṟṟŭ) (termite mound)
Maltese: bejta tan-nemel
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)
Ukrainian: мура́шник m (murášnyk)
Uzbek: chumoli uyasi
Vietnamese: tổ kiến
West Coast Bajau: punsu

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