# ant
## English
### Alternative forms

* ante, ampte (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.

### Pronunciation

* (General American, Received Pronunciation, General Australian) enPR: ănt, IPA: /ænt/
* (New Zealand) enPR: ănt, IPA: /ɛnt/
* (Received Pronunciation, obsolete) enPR: änt, IPA: /ɑːnt/
* (æ-tensing) IPA: [ɛənt], [eənt], [ɛːnt]
* Audio (US):(file)
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* Rhymes: -ænt
* Homophone: aunt (in some accents)

### Noun

ant (plural ants)
* Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
** 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
* (Internet) A Web spider.

#### Synonyms

* (insect): emmet (archaic), pismire (archaic), antmire, anty-mire (colloquial)

#### Hyponyms

* (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant

#### Derived terms

* acrobat ant
* agricultural ant
* Allegheny mound ant
* Amazon ant
* ant bear, ant-bear, antbear
* ant-bed
* ant-bed, antbed parrot, antbed parrot moth
* ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius)
* antbird (Thamnophilidae spp.)
* ant-blue (Acrodipsas spp.)
* ant cap
* ant cattle
* ant cow
* ant cricket (Myrmecophilidae)
* antdom
* anteater, ant-eater
* anteating
* ant egg
* anternet
* ant farm
* antheap
* ant-heap
* anthill, ant-hill, ant hill
* anthole
* anthood
* anticide
* anting
* antish
* antkind
* antless
* antlet
* antlike
* antling
* antlion/ant lion (Myrmeleontidae spp.)
* antly
* ant mill
* ant mimicry
* ant mound
* ant nest beetle
* ant orchid (Chiloglottis formicifera)
* antpecker
* Antperson
* antpipit
* antpitta (Grallariidae spp.)
* antproof
* ant rattan (esp. Korthalsia rostrata)
* ant rice (Aristida oligantha)
* ant sand
* antshrike (Thamnophilidae spp.)
* ants in one's pants
* antsy
* ant-tanager
* ant tanager
* ant thrush, antthrush (Formicarius spp., Chamaeza spp.)
* ant tree
* antvireo (Dysithamnus spp.)
* antwren (Myrmotherula spp.)
* anty
* Argentine ant (Linepithema humilis)
* armadillo ant
* banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
* bigheaded ant (Pheidole megacephala)
* black ant
* black imported fire ant
* blue ant (Diamma bicolor)
* bullet ant (Paraponera clavata)
* cocktail ant
* coconut ant
* crazy ant (Paratrechina spp. etc.)
* driver ant (Dorylus spp.)
* duck ant (Nasutitermes nigriceps)
* fungus-growing ant
* ghost ant
* gliding ant
* green ant
* green tree ant
* harvester ant
* Hercules ant
* honey ant
* honey pot ant, honeypot ant
* horse ant
* jet ant
* Langton's ant
* leaf-cutter ant, leaf-cutting ant
* legionary ant
* lemon ant
* lion ant
* little black ant
* meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus)
* mound ant
* negro ant
* odorous house ant
* panda ant
* parasol ant
* pavement ant
* piss-ant
* pissant
* rainbow ant
* red imported fire ant
* safari ant
* skull-collecting ant
* slave ant
* slave-making ant
* stink ant
* sugar ant (Camponotus spp.)
* the ant's pants
* throw an ant into a sty
* tramp ant
* trap jaw ant, trap-jaw ant, trapjaw ant
* turf ant
* turtle ant
* umbrella ant
* Valentine ant
* velvet ant (Mutillidae spp.)
* visiting ant
* warrior ant
* weaver ant
* white ant/white-ant (Isoptera spp.)
* yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes)

#### See also

* ant- (prefix)
* -ant (suffix)
* Appendix:Animals
* army
* colony
* nest
* Appendix:English collective nouns
* jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
* cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
* beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
* earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
* flies, dipterans (Diptera)
* webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
* mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
* ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
* true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
* hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
* butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
* mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
* mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
* scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
* megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
* neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantidflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
* damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
* orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
* stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
* stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
* barklice and booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
* snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
* fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
* strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
* thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
* caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
* zorapterans (Zoraptera)
* silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)

### Verb

ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)
* (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
** 1974, Eloise Potter and Doris Hauser, “Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds”, in The Auk‎, volume 91, archived from the original on 6 June 2011, page 538:Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.

### References

* ↑ Joan Beal (2002) English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's Grand Repository of the English Language‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 27 April 2018, page 109

### Anagrams

* TNA, TAN, NTA, Nat, NAT, ATN, nat, Tan, tan, Nat.

## Breton
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

ant m
* furrow

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* dant (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ), presumably by misdivision.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈan]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈant]

### Noun

ant m (plural ants)
* elk, moose

### Further reading

* “ant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

ant (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* oath

#### Synonyms

* yemin

### References

* Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

## Egyptian
### Romanization

ant
* Manuel de Codage transliteration of ꜥnt.

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French entre (“between”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ãt/

### Preposition

ant
* between

## Lithuanian
### Alternative forms

* añ (dialectal)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Lithuanian añt, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-t. Compare Sudovian an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɐnt]

### Preposition

añt (with genitive)
* on
    Jìs sė́di añt kėdė̃s. ― He sits on a chair.

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ant”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 57
* ↑ “añt” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 35 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
* ↑ “ant”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

### Further reading

* “ant”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “ant”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025
* Vytautas Ambrazas (2006) “Prepositions with the genitive case”, in Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, →ISBN, page 407

## Meroitic
### Romanization

ant
* Romanization of 𐦠𐦩𐦴

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* anet

### Etymology

From Old High German enita, from Proto-West Germanic *anad, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈant/

### Noun

ant m or f
* duck
* drake (male duck)
    Synonym: antreche

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Ant, Anete
* Central Franconian:
** Hunsrik: Ent
** Luxembourgish: Int
* German: Ente
* Rhine Franconian:
** Frankfurterisch: IPA [ent]
** Pennsylvania German: Ent
* Vilamovian: ant

### References

* Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “ant”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
* "ant" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Middle Welsh
### Alternative forms

* aant

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːnt/

### Verb

ant
* third-person plural present indicative of mynet

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑːnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːnt
* Hyphenation: ant

### Verb

ant
* past participle of ane
* past participle common of ane
* past participle neuter of ane

### Anagrams

* nat, tan

## Scots
### Verb

ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle antin, simple past antit, past participle antit)
* Shetland form of aint

### References

* “ant, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آند (and), from Proto-Turkic *ānt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰦 (nt), Azerbaijani and, and Southern Altai андык- (andïk-, “to prove”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ant/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ant

### Noun

ant (definite accusative andı, plural antlar)
* oath

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
ant
antlar
definite accusative
andı
antları
dative
anda
antlara
locative
antta
antlarda
ablative
anttan
antlardan
genitive
andın
antların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
andım
antlarım
2nd singular
andın
antların
3rd singular
andı
antları
1st plural
andımız
antlarımız
2nd plural
andınız
antlarınız
3rd plural
antları
antları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
andımı
antlarımı
2nd singular
andını
antlarını
3rd singular
andını
antlarını
1st plural
andımızı
antlarımızı
2nd plural
andınızı
antlarınızı
3rd plural
antlarını
antlarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
andıma
antlarıma
2nd singular
andına
antlarına
3rd singular
andına
antlarına
1st plural
andımıza
antlarımıza
2nd plural
andınıza
antlarınıza
3rd plural
antlarına
antlarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
andımda
antlarımda
2nd singular
andında
antlarında
3rd singular
andında
antlarında
1st plural
andımızda
antlarımızda
2nd plural
andınızda
antlarınızda
3rd plural
antlarında
antlarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
andımdan
antlarımdan
2nd singular
andından
antlarından
3rd singular
andından
antlarından
1st plural
andımızdan
antlarımızdan
2nd plural
andınızdan
antlarınızdan
3rd plural
antlarından
antlarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
andımın
antlarımın
2nd singular
andının
antlarının
3rd singular
andının
antlarının
1st plural
andımızın
antlarımızın
2nd plural
andınızın
antlarınızın
3rd plural
antlarının
antlarının :

#### Synonyms

* kasem
* söz
* yemin

## Turkmen
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ānt (“oath”).

### Noun

ant (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* oath

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### Further reading

* “ant” in Enedilim.com
* “ant” in Webonary.org

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German ente alongside ant, from Old High German enita alongside anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Compare Dutch eend, German Ente.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːnt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ȧnt f (plural anta)
* duck