praying mantis

English

A praying mantis.

Etymology

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 (âxundak, literally “little cleric”).

Noun

praying mantis (plural praying mantises or praying mantes)

Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order Mantodea that have a prayer-like stance.
(regional, in Europe) A mantid of the species Mantis religiosa.
A woman who preys on men (from the idea that female praying mantises eat males after sex).

Synonyms

(general term): mantid, mantis

Translations

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) (aġotʻarar), հարցուկ (hy) (harcʻuk)
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

Danish: knæler (da) c

Mantis religiosa

Breton: pederez (br) f
Bulgarian: богомолка f (bogomolka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: rukoilijasirkka (fi), eurooppalainen rukoilijasirkka
French: mante religieuse (fr) f
Galician: barbantesa (gl) f
Kapampangan: kansasamba
Russian: обыкнове́нный богомо́л m (obyknovénnyj bogomól)
Slovene: bogomolka (sl) f
Spanish: mantis religiosa (es) f

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