bedbug
English
Etymology
Proto-West Germanic *badi English bedbug From bed + bug.
Pronunciation
Noun
bedbug (plural bedbugs)
- A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.
- Synonyms: (obsolete UK slang) mahogany flat, (obsolete UK slang) Norfolk Howard, (slang) B-flat
Fiona rapidly discovered that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81:In Morocco, love philtres are composed of yolk of egg and bedbugs.
- Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.
Derived terms
Translations
small nocturnal insect pest of humans
- Afrikaans: weeluis
- Albanian: kore (sq) m
- Arabic: بَقّ m (baqq)
- Egyptian Arabic: بق (baʔʔ)
- Moroccan Arabic: بق (baqq)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܦܫܦܫܐ m (pešpšā)
- Armenian: փայտոջիլ (hy) (pʻaytoǰil)
- Assamese: উৰহ (uroh), কাপোৰ-ওকণী (kapür-ükoni)
- Asturian: chincha (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: taxtabiti
- Balinese: titih
- Banjarese: pampijit, tempijit
- Bashkir: ҡандала (qandala)
- Basque: zimitz
- Belarusian: пасце́льны клоп m (pascjélʹny klop), клоп m (klop)
- Bislama: stingfli
- Bulgarian: креватна дървеница f (krevatna dǎrvenica)
- Catalan: xinxa (ca) f, xinxa de llit f
- Cebuano: kuting, dugho
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 臭蟲 / 臭虫 (zh) (chòuchóng), 壁蝨 / 壁虱 (zh) (bìshī), 蜰蟲 / 蜰虫 (zh) (féichóng), 床蝨 / 床虱 (zh) (chuángshī)
- Czech: štěnice (cs) f
- Dalmatian: cinko m
- Danish: væggelus c
- Dutch: bedwants (nl) m or f, wandluis (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: cimo (eo), litcimo
- Estonian: voodilutikas
- Faroese: veggjalús f
- Finnish: lude (fi), lutikka (fi)
- French: punaise (fr) f, punaise de lit (fr) f, punaise des lits (fr) f
- Georgian: ბაღლინჯო (baɣlinǯo)
- German: Wanze (de) f, Bettwanze f, Hauswanze f, Wandlaus f (older term)
- Greek: κοριός (el) m (koriós)
- Ancient Greek: κόρις m (kóris)
- Pontic Greek: κορίδιν n (korídin), κόρδα f (kórda)
- Hawaiian: ʻuku lio
- Hebrew: פשפש \ פִּשְׁפֵּשׁ (he) m (pishpésh), פשפשאי מיטה
- Hindi: खटमल (hi) m (khaṭmal)
- Hungarian: poloska (hu), ágyi poloska (hu), vérszívó poloska, házi poloska
- Icelandic: veggjalús f
- Ido: cimo (io)
- Indonesian: kepinding (id), kutu busuk (id), bangsat (id), tinggi (id), pijat-pijat (id)
- Ingrian: lucikkain
- Irish: míol leapa m
- Italian: cimice (it) f, cimice da letto f, cimice dei letti f
- Japanese: 床虱 (ja) (とこじらみ, tokojirami), 南京虫 (ja) (なんきんむし, nankinmushi), 床虫 (ja) (とこむし, tokomushi)
- Javanese: tinggi (jv)
- Kannada: ತಿಗಣೆ (kn) (tigaṇe)
- Kapampangan: suldut
- Khmer: សង្កើច (km) (sɑŋkaəc)
- Kikuyu: ngũngũni class 9/10
- Korean: 빈대 (ko) (bindae)
- Kyrgyz: кантала (ky) (kantala)
- Ladino: chincha f
- Lao: ເຮືອດ (hư̄at), ໂຕເຮືອດ (tō hư̄at)
- Latin: cīmex m
- Latvian: blakts f
- Laz: მკორიდა (mǩorida)
- Lithuanian: patalinė blakė f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Wandluus f
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Luhya: ebisururi
- Macedonian: тавтабита f (tavtabita)
- Malay: pijat, pijat-pijat
- Malayalam: മൂട്ട (ml) (mūṭṭa)
- Maltese: baqq
- Manx: meeyl lhiabbagh f
- Middle English: maddok
- Mi'kmaq: tepine's anim
- Mongolian: бясаа (mn) (bjasaa)
- Navajo: wóósitsʼílí
- Norman: bog'se f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: veggedyr (no) n, veggdyr n, veggelus m or f
- Nynorsk: veggedyr n, veggdyr n, veggelus f
- Ojibwe: minaagojiisi
- Old Norse: veggjalús f
- Pannonian Rusyn: блощина f (bloščina)
- Persian: ساس (fa) (sâs)
- Piedmontese: simes f
- Polish: pluskwa (pl) f
- Portuguese: percevejo (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਖਟਮਲ m (khaṭmal)
- Romanian: ploșniță (ro) f, păduche de pat
- Romansh: pidra da letg f
- Russian: клоп (ru) m (klop), посте́льный клоп (ru) m (postélʹnyj klop)
- Scottish Gaelic: bògas na h-oidhche m
- Shan: ႁိူတ်ႈ (shn) (hōet)
- Slovak: ploštica posteľná f
- Slovene: stenica (sl) f
- Spanish: chinche (es) f, chinche de cama f
- Sundanese: tumbila (su)
- Swahili: kunguni (sw)
- Swedish: vägglus (sv) c
- Tagalog: surot
- Tajik: сос (sos)
- Tamil: மூட்டைப் பூச்சி (ta) (mūṭṭaip pūcci)
- Telugu: నల్లి (te) (nalli)
- Thai: เรือด (th) (rʉ̂ʉat), ตัวเรือด (dtua rêuat)
- Tibetan: འདྲེ་ཤིག ('dre shig)
- Tok Pisin: musmus
- Turkish: tahtakurusu (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: تخته قوروسی (tahta kurusu)
- Turkmen: tagtabit
- Ukrainian: пості́льний клоп m (postílʹnyj klop), клоп m (klop)
- Unami: mpòkës
- Urdu: کھٹمل m (khaṭmal)
- Vietnamese: rệp (vi)
- Volapük: pünet (vo)
- Waigali: güza
- Welsh: pycsen f
- Yakut: хаптаҕай (qaptağay)
- Yiddish: וואַנץ f (vants)
- Zapotec:
- Isthmus Zapotec: bidi
- Zhuang: rwed
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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