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Post by Adam Cotton on Dec 4, 2017 18:24:21 GMT
In Thai a butterfly is called "Pee Seua", literally meaning 'ghost's clothes', and a moth is called "Pee Seua Glang Keun" where 'glang keun' means the night, so 'butterfy of the night'. However this phrase can also refer to two legged 'butterflies of the night'.
Beetles are called "Malaeng Beek Kaeng" meaning 'insect with hard wings'.
Adam.
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Post by Paul K on Dec 4, 2017 18:52:18 GMT
In eastern Thailand ( where most people actually speak Laotian language) and Laos the butterfly is called: Menga bya
In Poland: Motyl
PS
Adam, I sent few days ago email with photo of P.polyxenes, just wonder if you received.
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Post by crazypapilio on Dec 4, 2017 20:37:15 GMT
German:
butterfly= 1.Schmetterling(from the very old german word Schmetten for butter)
2.Falter or Tagfalter (means day butterfly)
moth= 1.Motte 2.Nachtfalter (means night butterfly)
beetle= Käfer (ä is spoken how ae)
swallowtail= Schwalberschwanz (means the same)
dragonfly= Libelle
cicada= Zikade
bug= Wanze
spider= Spinne (from spin)
fly= Fliege (from flying)
wasp= Wespe
horned= Hornisse
ant= Ameise
cricket= Grille
grasshoppper/locust= Grashüpfer(ue)/Heuschrecke
insect= Insekt
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Post by africaone on Dec 5, 2017 6:55:26 GMT
in swahili
lepido is kipepeo and insect is bilulu
in French
butterflky / moth : papillon ("de jour" or "de nuit" = butterfly or moth), some (a small minority, mainly scientists, want "mite" or "hétérocère" for moth and "rhophalocère" for butterfly)
beetle is coléoptère or scarabée
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Post by cabintom on Dec 5, 2017 14:21:35 GMT
lepido is kipepeo and insect is bilulu Up here in Bunia, "insect" in "Swahili" is "vidudu" (But Bunia Swahili is notoriously terrible) The street boys I work with call butterflies "Kapilipili" or "Kapiripiri" (R's and L's are often interchangeable). In Llendu butterfly is "Pripri", with quick rolled Rs, so it's pronounced like "Prrreeepreee" but said very quickly... almost sounds like an insect call. |
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Post by mcheki on Dec 5, 2017 17:23:21 GMT
My recollection of Swahili from when I was at school in Nairobi is that Kipepeo is butterfly. Nondo may have been a moth and generalised insect is dudu (or perhaps mdudu).
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Post by wollastoni on Dec 5, 2017 18:28:35 GMT
In Malaysian/Indonesian, butterfly is "kupu kupu"
I have been told that if you say "kupu" only, it means prostitute... which could lead to big quiproco if you said you are looking for some when you enter a local village ! :-)
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Post by africaone on Dec 5, 2017 18:44:25 GMT
... generalised insect is dudu (or perhaps mdudu. Abri (African butterflies research Institute in Nairobi) main room IS called 'dudu' room |
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Post by miguel on Dec 5, 2017 20:09:56 GMT
In the biggest part of Spain butterfly is Mariposa,Moth is Polilla and Beetle is Escarabajo,Ant is Hormiga and Bee es Abeja.
Miguel
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Post by sbiriguda on Dec 6, 2017 15:44:21 GMT
Italian
Butterfly Farfalla
Moth Falena
Beetle Scarafaggio
Neapolitan proverb: ogni scarrafone è bell a mamma soja
Every beetle is handsome for his mother
There are several dialects of the Italian, and being used in an agricultural environment they had many very specific words for insects and Lepidoptera, mostly they were much more precise than standard Italian
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Post by exoticimports on Dec 15, 2017 19:49:41 GMT
Butterfly
Spanish: Mariposa
Mandarin: Hudei (hoo-di-ay)
Tokpisin: Butafli
Polynesian: Pepe
Beetle
Spanish: Scarabajo
Tokpisin: Beetel
Polynesian: Vao
Grasshoppers/mantids in street Mandarin is "Tang Lang"
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Post by jmg on Jan 3, 2018 15:13:34 GMT
"In Malaysian/Indonesian, butterfly is "kupu kupu" I have been told that if you say "kupu" only, it means prostitute... which could lead to big quiproco if you said you are looking for some when you enter a local village ! :-)" As far as I know, in Indonesian Bahasa, kupu kupu means butterfly and malam the night. However, if you are looking for moths, do not ask where kupu kupu malam are! The expression refers to prostitutes! Thus we go from the bulb lamp to the red lantern (formerly the mark of a house of tolerance in France).   Selamat malam, ammis ! |
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Post by Ed on Jan 3, 2018 15:25:08 GMT
Butterfly Spanish: Mariposa Mandarin: Hudei (hoo-di-ay) Tokpisin: Butafli Polynesian: Pepe Beetle Spanish: Scarabajo Tokpisin: Beetel Polynesian: Vao Grasshoppers/mantids in street Mandarin is "Tang Lang" In Mandarin butterfly is 蝴蝶，the pinyin for this is "hu die" . In my local dialect it is often pronounced "fu die". |
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Post by joee30 on Jan 28, 2018 3:19:20 GMT
In the biggest part of Spain butterfly is Mariposa,Moth is Polilla and Beetle is Escarabajo,Ant is Hormiga and Bee es Abeja. Miguel In the El Salvadorean Spanish Butterfly=Mariposa, Moth=Polilla/Papalota(Saturniids or big moths), Cicada= Cigaras/Chicharras, and Beetles have many names, most notably Ronrones(fig beetles/cetoniids), cuernudos or rinocerontes(Dynastines), Mayates(non horned dynastines and some dung beetles), and Caqueros(Dung beetles). |
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