You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
Source: tatoeba (4447196)
Gnat
//næt//
Synonyms for "gnat" (28 found)
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14 entriesTranslations
83 translations across 58 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- mug noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κώνωψ noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Arabic
1 entries- برغش noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Armenian
1 entries- մոծակ noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Bashkir
1 entries- серәкәй noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Bengali
1 entries- ডাঁশ noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Bikol Central
1 entries- nuknok noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Bulgarian
1 entries- комар noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Catalan
1 entries- mosquit noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 蚊 noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- 蚋 noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Danish
2 entries- myg noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- stikmyg noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Dupaningan Agta
1 entries- rahik noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Dutch
2 entries- knut noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- mug noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Erzya
1 entries- марав noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Esperanto
1 entries- kulo noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Estonian
1 entries- sääsk noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Faroese
1 entries- mýggjabiti noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Finnish
3 entries- Gnat noun (fighter type)
- Nutikka noun (fighter type)
- sääski noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
French
1 entries- moucheron noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
German
3 entries- Gnat noun (fighter type)
- Schnake noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- Stechmücke noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Greenlandic
1 entries- ippernaq noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Gujarati
1 entries- મચ્છર noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Hungarian
1 entries- szúnyog noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Irish
1 entries- corrmhíol noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Italian
1 entries- moscerino noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Japanese
2 entries- ブヨ noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- 蚋 noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Kapampangan
1 entries- absang noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Korean
1 entries- 모기 noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Latin
2 entries- alucita noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- culex noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Latvian
1 entries- ods noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mašalas noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Macedonian
2 entries- комарец noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- мушичка noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Malagasy
1 entries- aloiloy noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Malayalam
1 entries- നുളമ്പ് noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Manx
2 entries- meeyl noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- quill noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Middle English
1 entries- gnat noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Norman
1 entries- bibet noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᩁᩥ᩠᩶ᨶ noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- knott noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- knott noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Old English
1 entries- gnætt noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Persian
1 entries- پشه noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Polish
1 entries- komar noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Portuguese
2 entries- mosquitinho noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- mosquito noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Russian
2 entries- кома́р noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- мо́шка noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- meanbh-chuileag noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- komarac noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- mušica noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- комарац noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- мушица noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Sicilian
3 entries- muschitta noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- sampagghiuni noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- siḍḍu noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Spanish
4 entries- jején noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- maje noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- mime noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- mosquito noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Swedish
1 entries- stickmygga noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Tagalog
1 entries- niknik noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Thai
1 entries- ริ้น noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Turkish
1 entries- sivrisinek noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Ukrainian
3 entries- комар noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- мошка noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- мушка noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ruồi nhuế noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Volapük
3 entries- himuskitil noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- jimuskitil noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
- muskitil noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Welsh
1 entries- gwybedyn noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
West-Frisian
1 entries- langskonk noun (any small insect of the order Diptera)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The bee makes honey, which the drone devours. The wasp and the hornet molest with a sting: and especially cattle, so do the gadfly (breeze), the fly and the gnat.
Source: tatoeba (7355812)
I was bitten by a gnat.
Source: tatoeba (11341028)
"Away thou whining gnat, and trouble me not!"
Source: wiktionary
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