The Etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal by weight. It only weighs 1.8 grammes.
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Shrew
//ʃɹuː//
Synonyms for "shrew" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (34)
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6 entriesMore specific
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
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4 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
114 translations across 72 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- feeks noun (woman)
- skeerbekmuis noun (mouselike animal)
Arabic
1 entries- زَبَابَة noun (mouselike animal)
Armenian
1 entries- սրընչակ noun (mouselike animal)
Assamese
1 entries- চিকা noun (mouselike animal)
Asturian
2 entries- musgañu noun (mouselike animal)
- topu ratu noun (mouselike animal)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yereşən noun (mouselike animal)
Basque
1 entries- satitsu noun (mouselike animal)
Belarusian
1 entries- земляры́йка noun (mouselike animal)
Breton
1 entries- minoc'h noun (mouselike animal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- земеро́вка noun (mouselike animal)
Burmese
1 entries- ကြွက်စုတ် noun (mouselike animal)
Catalan
1 entries- musaranya noun (mouselike animal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 尖鼠 noun (mouselike animal)
- 潑婦 /泼妇 noun (woman)
- 鼩鼱 noun (mouselike animal)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲉⲙⲓⲙ noun (mouselike animal)
Czech
4 entries- megera noun (woman)
- rachomejtle noun (woman)
- rejsek noun (mouselike animal)
- saň noun (woman)
Danish
2 entries- rappenskralde noun (woman)
- spidsmus noun (mouselike animal)
Dutch
1 entries- spitsmuis noun (mouselike animal)
Esperanto
2 entries- megero noun (woman)
- soriko noun (mouselike animal)
Estonian
1 entries- karihiir noun (mouselike animal)
Faroese
1 entries- trantmús noun (mouselike animal)
Finnish
2 entries- päästäinen noun (mouselike animal)
- äkäpussi noun (woman)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- musèt noun (mouselike animal)
French
3 entries- furie noun (woman)
- musaraigne noun (mouselike animal)
- mégère noun (woman)
Galician
3 entries- arpella noun (woman)
- furaño noun (mouselike animal)
- musgaño noun (mouselike animal)
Georgian
1 entries- ბიგა noun (mouselike animal)
German
2 entries- Megäre noun (woman)
- Spitzmaus noun (mouselike animal)
Greek
2 entries- μυγαλή noun (mouselike animal)
- νανομυγαλίδα noun (mouselike animal)
Hebrew
1 entries- מִרְשַׁעַת noun (woman)
Hungarian
1 entries- cickány noun (mouselike animal)
Icelandic
2 entries- snjáldra noun (mouselike animal)
- snjáldurmús noun (mouselike animal)
Indonesian
1 entries- celurut noun (mouselike animal)
Irish
1 entries- dallóg fhraoigh noun (mouselike animal)
Italian
1 entries- toporagno noun (mouselike animal)
Japanese
1 entries- 尖鼠 noun (mouselike animal)
Javanese
1 entries- curut noun (mouselike animal)
Kazakh
1 entries- жертесер noun (mouselike animal)
Korean
2 entries- 뒤쥐 noun (mouselike animal)
- 첨서 noun (mouselike animal)
Latgalian
1 entries- ciersleits noun (mouselike animal)
Latin
1 entries- sōrex noun (mouselike animal)
Latvian
1 entries- cirslis noun (mouselike animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kirstukas noun (mouselike animal)
Macedonian
1 entries- ровка noun (mouselike animal)
Maltese
1 entries- ġurdiem ta’ geddumu twil noun (mouselike animal)
Navajo
1 entries- chį́į́shnézí noun (mouselike animal)
Nepali
1 entries- छुचुन्द्रो noun (mouselike animal)
Northern Sami
1 entries- vánddis noun (mouselike animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spissmus noun (mouselike animal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- skjerd noun (mouselike animal)
- spissmus noun (mouselike animal)
Occitan
1 entries- musaranha noun (mouselike animal)
Old English
1 entries- screawa noun (mouselike animal)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سیوری صیچان noun (mouselike animal)
Persian
1 entries- موش شبگرد noun (mouselike animal)
Polish
4 entries- hetera noun (woman)
- ryjówka noun (mouselike animal)
- sekutnica noun (woman)
- zołza noun (woman)
Portuguese
2 entries- megera noun (woman)
- musaranho noun (mouselike animal)
Romanian
3 entries- chițcan noun (mouselike animal)
- megeră noun (woman)
- scorpie noun (woman)
Romansch
1 entries- misarogn noun (mouselike animal)
Russian
3 entries- ве́дьма noun (woman)
- землеро́йка noun (mouselike animal)
- меге́ра noun (woman)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dallag-an-fhraoich noun (mouselike animal)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- rovka noun (mouselike animal)
- rovčica noun (mouselike animal)
- ровка noun (mouselike animal)
- ровчица noun (mouselike animal)
Sicilian
3 entries- magara noun (woman)
- majara noun (woman)
- mavara noun (woman)
Slovak
2 entries- megera noun (woman)
- piskor noun (mouselike animal)
Slovene
1 entries- rovka noun (mouselike animal)
Spanish
3 entries- arpía noun (woman)
- bruja noun (woman)
- musaraña noun (mouselike animal)
Swedish
3 entries- argbigga noun (woman)
- näbbmus noun (mouselike animal)
- ragata noun (woman)
Tagalog
1 entries- musaranya noun (mouselike animal)
Thai
1 entries- หนูผี noun (mouselike animal)
Turkish
4 entries- cadı noun (woman)
- kir faresi noun (mouselike animal)
- sivri fare noun (mouselike animal)
- şirret noun (woman)
Tày
1 entries- cà rìa noun (mouselike animal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- землери́йка noun (mouselike animal)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chuột chù noun (mouselike animal)
Welsh
1 entries- llyg noun (mouselike animal)
West-Frisian
1 entries- pipermûs noun (mouselike animal)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
At the edge of the road lay a dead shrew.
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"Why did you say hello to that shrew?" "I don't want to ruin my karma."
Source: tatoeba (5380884)
You can gossip as much as you want, dirty shrew!
Source: tatoeba (7047595)
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