Beetle

//ˈbiːtəl//

Synonyms for "beetle" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

beetling bug overhang arachnid arthropod beetle browed beetle-browed bulge caterpillar centipede chilopod daddy longlegs

Noun(1 words)

bug

Adjective(1 words)

beetling

Strong matches (21)

digester diplopod fly hammer hang hang out hang over harvestman hexapod impend impend over impendent impending incumbent insect jut jutting larva lean over lowering

Noun(1 words)

firefly

Related words (35)

macerator maggot mallet masher millepede millipede mite nymph overhanging overhung pending poke potato masher pouch pout project project over projecting protrude pulp machine

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pulper pulpifier scorpion smasher spider stand stand out stick stick out superincumbent tarantula thrust over tick

Noun(1 words)

mallet

Verb(1 words)

overhang

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

8 entries

beat go hammer hang insect locomote move travel

Synonyms

4 entries

beetling bug mallet overhang

Related terms

5 entries

bug chafer firefly ladybird scarab

derived

197 entries

Alexander beetle Asian lady beetle Asiatic beetle Atlas beetle Beatles Bess beetle Betsy beetle Carolina metallic tiger beetle Carolina tiger beetle Christmas beetle Colorado beetle Colorado potato beetle Darwin's beetle Goliath beetle Hercules beetle Japanese beetle

Showing 16 of 197 words.

derived from

1 entries

bite

is a

1 entries

insect

manner of

2 entries

beat travel

related to

22 entries

beetle brows bug chafer coleoptera cotton dice extend fabric firefly game of chance hammer insect jut ladybird loom machine

Showing 16 of 22 words.

similar

1 entries

protrusive

Translations

199 translations across 127 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

brumbull noun (insect)
zhuzhak noun (insect)

Amharic

1 entries

ጢንዚዛ noun (insect)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κάνθαρος noun (insect)

Arabic

3 entries

جيز noun (insect)
خُنْفُسانة noun (insect)
خُنْفُسَاء noun (insect)

Aragonese

1 entries

escarabaxo noun (insect)

Armenian

1 entries

բզեզ noun (insect)

Asturian

1 entries

escarabayu noun (insect)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

böcək noun (insect)

Banjarese

1 entries

karariang noun (insect)

Bashkir

1 entries

ҡуңыҙ noun (insect)

Basque

1 entries

kakalardo noun (insect)

Bau Bidayuh

1 entries

gieng noun (insect)

Belarusian

2 entries

жук noun (insect)
цвердакры́лы noun (insect)

Bengali

1 entries

গুবরে পোকা noun (insect)

Breton

1 entries

c'hwil noun (insect)

Brunei Malay

1 entries

kumbang noun (insect)

Bulgarian

3 entries

бръ́мбар noun (insect)
бръмбар noun (Volkswagen car)
трамбовка noun (mallet)

Burmese

1 entries

ပိုးတောင်မာ noun (insect)

Catalan

2 entries

escarabat noun (insect)
escarabat noun (Volkswagen car)

Cebuano

1 entries

bakukang noun (insect)

Central Melanau

1 entries

buyun noun (insect)

Chinese

1 entries

龜仔 /龟仔 noun (insect)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

甲蟲 /甲虫 noun (insect)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

甲殼蟲 /甲壳虫 noun (insect)
甲殼蟲 /甲壳虫 noun (Volkswagen car)
甲蟲 /甲虫 noun (insect)

Chukchi

1 entries

тыӄиӈэвыт noun (insect)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

qoñuz noun (insect)

Czech

1 entries

brouk noun (insect)

Danish

1 entries

bille noun (insect)

Dari

1 entries

قَانْغوزَک noun (insect)

Dutch

2 entries

Kever noun (Volkswagen car)
kever noun (insect)

Dzongkha

1 entries

ཨ་ཝ་གླང noun (insect)

Egyptian

1 entries

a:p-SA-A-i-i-L1 noun (insect)

Esperanto

1 entries

skarabo noun (insect)

Estonian

2 entries

mardikas noun (insect)
põrnikas noun (Volkswagen car)

Faroese

1 entries

klukka noun (insect)

Finnish

3 entries

kovakuoriainen noun (insect)
kupla noun (Volkswagen car)
puunuija noun (mallet)

French

3 entries

Coccinelle noun (Volkswagen car)
mailloche noun (mallet)
scarabée noun (insect)

Galician

1 entries

escaravello noun (insect)

Georgian

1 entries

ხოჭო noun (insect)

German

4 entries

Chäfer noun (insect)
Holzhammer noun (mallet)
Käfer noun (insect)
Käfer noun (Volkswagen car)

Greek

3 entries

Σκαθάρι noun (Volkswagen car)
Σκαραβαίος noun (Volkswagen car)
σκαθάρι noun (insect)

Greenlandic

1 entries

sikannertooq noun (insect)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

蛄仔 noun (insect)

Hebrew

3 entries

חִפּוּשִׁית noun (insect)
חיפושית noun (insect)
חיפושית noun (Volkswagen car)

Hindi

2 entries

गुबरैला noun (insect)
भृंग noun (insect)

Hungarian

1 entries

bogár noun (insect)

Icelandic

1 entries

bjalla noun (insect)

Indonesian

1 entries

kumbang noun (insect)

Ingrian

1 entries

pöröläin noun (insect)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

سوسْک noun (insect)

Irish

1 entries

ciaróg noun (insect)

Italian

3 entries

coleottero noun (insect)
maggiolino noun (Volkswagen car)
scarabeo noun (insect)

Japanese

1 entries

甲虫 noun (insect)

Javanese

1 entries

kumbang noun (insect)

Kazakh

1 entries

қоңыз noun (insect)

Khmer

1 entries

កញ្ចុកបត្តសត្វ noun (insect)

Korean

1 entries

갑충 noun (insect)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

коңуз noun (insect)

Ladin

1 entries

chëifer noun (insect)

Lao

2 entries

ດ້ວງ noun (insect)
ແມງ noun (insect)

Latgalian

2 entries

vabale noun (insect)
vaguls noun (insect)

Latin

1 entries

coleopterum noun (insect)

Latvian

1 entries

vabole noun (insect)

Lithuanian

1 entries

vabalas noun (insect)

Low German

4 entries

Käver noun (insect)
Sebber noun (insect)
Sever noun (insect)
Säver noun (insect)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

bruk noun (insect)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Kiewerlek noun (insect)

Macedonian

2 entries

бумбар noun (insect)
тврдокрилец noun (insect)

Malagasy

1 entries

borera noun (insect)

Malay

2 entries

kumbang noun (insect)
کومبڠ noun (insect)

Malayalam

2 entries

ഭ്രമരം noun (insect)
വണ്ട് noun (insect)

Maltese

1 entries

ħanfusa noun (insect)

Mongolian

2 entries

цох noun (insect)
ᠴᠣᠬᠤ noun (insect)

Māori

4 entries

pepeke noun (insect)
pāpapa noun (insect)
pītara noun (insect)
tātaka noun (insect)

Navajo

2 entries

chidí néʼéshtiłí noun (Volkswagen car)
chéłchaaʼ noun (insect)

Neapolitan

1 entries

scarrafone noun (insect)

Northern Sami

1 entries

gobbá noun (insect)

Norwegian

1 entries

boble noun (Volkswagen car)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

bille noun (insect)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

bille noun (insect)

Occitan

1 entries

escarabat noun (insect)

Old English

1 entries

ċeafor noun (insect)

Old French

1 entries

escharbot noun (insect)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

طوقماق noun (mallet)

Pannonian Rusyn

2 entries

буба noun (insect)
хробак noun (insect)

Pashto

1 entries

ګونګټ noun (insect)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Kjniepa noun (insect)

Polish

3 entries

chrząszcz noun (insect)
garbus noun (Volkswagen car)
żuk noun (insect)

Portuguese

4 entries

besouro noun (insect)
carocha noun (Volkswagen car)
escaravelho noun (insect)
fusca noun (Volkswagen car)

Quechua

1 entries

akatanga noun (insect)

Romanian

2 entries

broscuță noun (Volkswagen car)
gândac noun (insect)

Russian

3 entries

Фольксваген Жук noun (Volkswagen car)
жесткокры́лый noun (insect)
жук noun (insect)

Sanskrit

1 entries

भ्रमर noun (insect)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

daol noun (insect)
daolag noun (insect)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

bȕba noun (insect)
tvrdokrilac noun (insect)
бу̏ба noun (insect)
тврдокрилац noun (insect)

Shor

1 entries

кӱйе noun (insect)

Slovak

1 entries

chrobák noun (insect)

Slovene

2 entries

hrošč noun (insect)
hrošč noun (Volkswagen car)

Southern Altai

1 entries

коҥус noun (insect)

Spanish

4 entries

Vocho noun (Volkswagen car)
acatanca noun (insect)
catanga noun (insect)
escarabajo noun (insect)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

asege noun (insect)

Sudovian

1 entries

grombōle noun (insect)

Swahili

1 entries

mende noun (insect)

Swedish

4 entries

Volkswagen Typ 1 noun (Volkswagen car)
bagge noun (Volkswagen car)
bubbla noun (Volkswagen car)
folka noun (Volkswagen car)

Tajik

1 entries

гамбуск noun (insect)

Tamil

1 entries

வண்டு noun (insect)

Tatar

2 entries

бөҗәк noun (insect)
коңгыз noun (insect)

Telugu

1 entries

భ్రమరం noun (insect)

Thai

3 entries

ด้วง noun (insect)
แมง noun (insect)
แมลง noun (insect)

Tibetan

1 entries

བསེ་ལེ་པད་གོག noun (insect)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ሕንዚዝ noun (insect)

Tswana

1 entries

khukhwane noun (insect)

Turkish

2 entries

böcek noun (insect)
tosbağa noun (Volkswagen car)

Turkmen

1 entries

tomzak noun (insect)

Ukrainian

4 entries

джук noun (insect)
жук noun (insect)
твердокри́лий noun (insect)
хрущ noun (insect)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

žuk noun (insect)

Urdu

2 entries

بَھون٘را noun (insect)
گوبْرِیلا noun (insect)

Uyghur

1 entries

قوڭغۇز noun (insect)

Uzbek

1 entries

qoʻngʻiz noun (insect)

Vietnamese

1 entries

bọ cánh cứng noun (insect)

Volapük

2 entries

cäf noun (insect)
karab noun (insect)

Welsh

1 entries

chwilen noun (insect)

West Coast Bajau

1 entries

utod noun (insect)

Wolof

1 entries

gunóor bi noun (insect)

Yakut

1 entries

хомурдуос noun (insect)

Yiddish

2 entries

דזשוכע noun (insect)
זשוק noun (insect)

Yoruba

1 entries

ìjàpá noun (Volkswagen car)

Sample sentences

29 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

One beetle recognises another.

Source: tatoeba (651201)

My dad used to drive a Beetle.

Source: tatoeba (1354294)

The beetle buzzes.

Source: tatoeba (2669691)

Click the picture of the frog riding the stag beetle, Paddy.

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