قَمَّام noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
نَبَّاش noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Breton

1 entries

gagnaouaer noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Bulgarian

2 entries

боклуджия noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
очистител noun (substance to remove impurities)

Catalan

1 entries

carronyaire noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

拾荒者 noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Czech

2 entries

mrchožrout noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
vybírač popelnic noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Danish

1 entries

skralder noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Dutch

2 entries

aaseter noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
jutter noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Finnish

3 entries

haaskaeläin noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
jätteiden keräilijä noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
roskien keräilijä noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

French

2 entries

animal nécrophage noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
charognard noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

German

4 entries

Aasfresser noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
Abfalldurchstöberer noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
Mülldurchstöberer noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
Spülmittel noun (substance to remove impurities)

Greek

1 entries

πτωματοφάγο noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Hebrew

1 entries

אוכל נבלות noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Hungarian

2 entries

dögevő noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
guberáló noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Irish

1 entries

bailitheoir noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Italian

4 entries

necrofago noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
razzolatore noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
saprofago noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
spazzino noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Korean

1 entries

청소 동물 noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Latin

1 entries

colacarius noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Macedonian

1 entries

мршојадец noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Māori

1 entries

hamuhamu noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

åtseleter noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

åtseletar noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Polish

2 entries

padlinożerca noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
złomiarz noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Portuguese

3 entries

carniceiro noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
catador noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
necrófago noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Russian

3 entries

па́дальщик noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
поглоти́тель noun (substance to remove impurities)
помо́ешник noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Slovene

1 entries

mrhovinar noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Spanish

4 entries

buzo noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
carroñera noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
carroñero noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
cartonero noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Swedish

1 entries

asätare noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Tagalog

1 entries

sasaid noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)

Yoruba

3 entries

aṣalẹ̀ noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)
jòkújòkú noun (animal feeding on decaying matter)
túlẹ̀túlẹ̀ noun (Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things)

Sample sentences

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I'm organizing a scavenger hunt for my son's thirteenth birthday party.

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Scavenging is both a carnivorous and herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead and decaying organic matter present in its habitat.

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I'm on a scavenger hunt.

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“It was fun because they sang happy birthday, we did a scavenger hunt and we did a dance party,” Emma added.

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