Mosquito

Etymology
mosquito:, from mosca:, + diminutive suffix -ito:, from musca:

Noun

 * 1) A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin. However, only the female of the species bites animals and humans. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

Related terms

 * Diminutive: mozzie
 * Mosquito Coast
 * mosquito net

Translations

 * Amuzgo: kíta
 * Arabic: (baʕūɖa)
 * Armenian: մոծակ (moçak)
 * Azeri: ağcaqanad
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: şırqıy
 * Croatian:
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 * Finnish:, ,
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 * Georgian: კოღო
 * German: ,
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 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: lemut
 * Madurese:
 * Minangkabau:
 * Sundanese: reungit
 * Interlingua: mosquito, culice
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蚊 (か, ka)
 * Kannada: ನುಸಿಸೊಳ್ಳೆ (nusisolle)


 * Korean: 모기 mogi
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao: (ñung)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: ods
 * Lithuanian: uodas ; kuisys (dial.), varmas  (dial.)
 * Luo:
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 * Malayalam: കൊതുക്‌
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 * Russian: москит (moskít)
 * Scottish Gaelic: mosgìoto
 * Serbian: ,
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 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili: mbu (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lamok
 * Tamil: கொசு
 * Telugu: దోమ (dOma)
 * Thai: ยุง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük: muskit
 * Welsh: mosgito, mosgitos
 * Yucatec: k'oxol

Noun

 * 1) mosquito

Etymology
Diminutive of mosca:

Noun

 * , gnat, small fly

Synonyms

 * zancudo

Derived terms

 * mosquitero
 * mosquito simúlido