locust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lek-der.?
Latin locusta
Anglo-Norman locustebor.
Middle English locuste
English locust
Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste.
Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
Noun sense 5 (“mainlander”) is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
Inflected forms:
form: locusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: locusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: locusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: locusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: locusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
pos: noun
gloss: A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
gloss: Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
pos: noun
gloss: A cicada.
pos: noun
gloss: A mainlander.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
gloss: A dose of laudanum.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.
gloss: To come in a swarm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
Derived words: African locust
American locust
antilocust
Australian plague locust
bald locust
black locust
Bombay locust
bristly locust
brown locust
camel locust
Carolina locust
cave locust
clammy locust
desert locust
differential locust
Egyptian locust
grouse locust
honey locust
hoofed locust
Italian locust
Kelsey locust
kosher locust
locustal
locust bean
locust borer
locustlike
locust stick
migratory locust
mock locust
Moroccan locust
moss locust
mossy locust
New Mexican locust
New Mexico locust
plague locust
post locust
praying locust
pygmy locust
red-legged locust
red locust
river locust
Rocky Mountain locust
rose-flowering locust
seventeen-year locust
shipmast locust
spotted locust
spur-throated locust
of Australia
swamp locust
sweet locust
thirteen-year locust
thorn locust
thorny locust
tree locust
water locust
West Indian locust
white locust
yellow locust
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: karkalec
lang: Amharic
word: አንበጣ
roman: ʾänbäṭa
lang: Western Apache
word: nagonełchʼiigi
lang: Arabic
word: جَرَادَة
roman: jarāda
lang: Arabic
word: جراد
roman: garād
lang: Arabic
word: جرادة
roman: garāda
lang: Arabic
word: جرادة
roman: jarāda
lang: Aramaic
word: ܩܡܨܐ
roman: qamṣā
lang: Armenian
word: մորեխ
roman: morex
lang: Aromanian
word: lãcustã
lang: Aromanian
word: gãlãgustã
lang: Aromanian
word: scarcaletsu
lang: Aromanian
word: acridhã
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çəyirtkə
lang: Belarusian
word: саранчу́к
roman: sarančúk
lang: Belarusian
word: саранча́
roman: sarančá
lang: Bengali
word: পঙ্গপাল
roman: poṅgopal
lang: Bulgarian
word: скакале́ц
roman: skakaléc
lang: Burmese
word: ကျိုင်းကောင်
roman: kyuing:kaung
lang: Burmese
word: ကျိုင်
roman: kyuing
lang: Catalan
word: llagosta
lang: Chechen
word: цӏоз
roman: cʼoz
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎶᎶ
roman: lolo
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫
roman: wong⁴ cung⁴
lang: Chinese
word: хуончун
roman: huončun
lang: Chinese
word: 草蜢
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese
word: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫
roman: hông-tiông / hông-thiông / hông-thâng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫
roman: huángchóng
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 蝗蟲 /蝗虫
roman: ⁶waon-zon
lang: Choctaw
word: washa
lang: Czech
word: saranče
lang: Danish
word: vandregræshoppe
lang: Danish
word: græshoppe
lang: Dutch
word: treksprinkhaan
lang: Dutch
word: sprinkhaan
lang: Egyptian
word: z:n-H-m-L4
roman: znḥm
lang: Erzya
word: таста
roman: tasta
lang: Esperanto
word: akrido
lang: Esperanto
word: lokusto
lang: Estonian
word: rändtirts
lang: Finnish
word: kulkusirkka
lang: Fon
word: gbokle
lang: French
word: locuste
lang: French
word: criquet
lang: Galician
word: langosta
lang: Galician
word: lagosta
lang: Georgian
word: კალია
roman: ḳalia
lang: German
word: Heuschrecke
lang: German
word: Wanderheuschrecke
lang: Old High German
word: hewispranga
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹
roman: þramstei
lang: Greek
word: ακρίδα
roman: akrída
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀκρίς
roman: akrís
lang: Hausa
word: fàra
lang: Hebrew
word: אַרְבֶּה
roman: arbé
lang: Hebrew
word: חָגָב
roman: khagáv
lang: Hindi
word: टिड्डी
roman: ṭiḍḍī
lang: Hungarian
word: sáska
lang: Icelandic
word: engispretta
lang: Ido
word: lokusto
lang: Irish
word: lócaiste
lang: Italian
word: locusta
lang: Japanese
word: 飛蝗
roman: batta
lang: Japanese
word: バッタ
roman: batta
lang: Japanese
word: 蝗
roman: inago
lang: Japanese
word: イナゴ
roman: inago
lang: Japanese
word: ワタリバッタ
roman: wataribatta
lang: Japanese
word: 蝗虫
roman: kōchū
lang: Old Javanese
word: walaṅ
lang: Kannada
word: ಮಿಡತೆ
roman: miḍate
lang: Kapampangan
word: durun
lang: Kazakh
word: шегіртке
roman: şegırtke
lang: Khmer
word: កណ្ដូប
roman: kɑɑkɑndoup
lang: Korean
word: 메뚜기
roman: mettugi
lang: Korean
word: 황충
roman: hwangchung
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کولە
roman: kule
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kulî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: melex
lang: Kyrgyz
word: чегиртке
roman: cegirtke
lang: Lao
word: ຕັກແຕນ
roman: tak tǣn
lang: Lao
word: ງ້ວງ
roman: ngūang
lang: Latin
word: locusta
lang: Latvian
word: sisenis
lang: Lithuanian
word: skėrys
lang: Macedonian
word: скакулец
roman: skakulec
lang: Malagasy
word: dongara
lang: Malay
word: belalang
lang: Malayalam
word: വെട്ടുകിളി
roman: veṭṭukiḷi
lang: Maltese
word: ġurat
lang: Manchu
word: ᠰᡝᠪᠰᡝᡥᡝᡵᡳ
roman: sebseheri
lang: Māori
word: māwhitiwhiti
lang: Māori
word: rangataua
lang: Māori
word: pākaurere
lang: Mongolian
word: царцаахай
roman: carcaaxaj
lang: Mongolian
word: голио
roman: golio
lang: Navajo
word: wóóneeshchʼįįdii
lang: Navajo
word: wóóneeshchʼįįdii nahachaʼígíí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gresshoppe
lang: Old English
word: græsstapa
lang: Old English
word: græshoppa
lang: Panamint
word: tsapitta
lang: Pashto
word: ملخ
roman: moláx
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مَلَخ
roman: malax
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مِیگ
roman: meyg
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Heischrakj
lang: Polish
word: szarańcza
lang: Portuguese
word: gafanhoto
lang: Punjabi
word: ਟਿੱਡੀ
roman: ṭiḍḍī
lang: Romanian
word: lăcustă
lang: Russian
word: саранча́
roman: sarančá
lang: Russian
word: саранчу́к
roman: sarančúk
lang: Russian
word: сарана́
roman: saraná
lang: Southern Sami
word: kraesienjålhtja
lang: Santali
word: ᱯᱳᱦᱳ
roman: poho
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ска̏кавац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: цврчак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зрикавац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: skȁkavac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cvrčak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zrikavac
lang: Slovak
word: saranča
lang: Slovene
word: kobilica
lang: Southern Altai
word: сары мангыс
roman: sarï mangïs
lang: Southern Altai
word: чегертки
roman: čegertki
lang: Spanish
word: langosta
lang: Spanish
word: tucura
lang: Spanish
word: chapulín
lang: Swahili
word: nzige
lang: Swedish
word: gräshoppa
lang: Swedish
word: vandringsgräshoppa
lang: Tagalog
word: balang
lang: Tajik
word: малах
roman: malax
lang: Tamil
word: வெட்டுக்கிளி
roman: veṭṭukkiḷi
lang: Telugu
word: మిడత
roman: miḍata
lang: Thai
word: ปาทังกา
roman: bpaa-tang-gâa
lang: Tibetan
word: ཚ་ག་བ
roman: tsha ga ba
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆ་ག་པ་
roman: cha ga pa
lang: Tigrinya
word: ኣንበጣ
roman: ʾanbäṭa
lang: Tocharian B
word: śalāp
lang: Tswana
word: tsie
lang: Turkish
word: çekirge
lang: Turkmen
word: çekirtge
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎛𐎗𐎁𐎊
roman: ỉrby
lang: Ukrainian
word: сарана́
roman: saraná
lang: Urdu
word: ٹِڈّی
roman: ṭiḍḍī
lang: Uyghur
word: چېكەتكە
roman: chëketke
lang: Uzbek
word: chigirtka
lang: Uzbek
word: malax
lang: Vietnamese
word: châu chấu
lang: Welsh
word: locust
lang: Wolof
word: njéeréer bi
lang: Yakut
word: аһыҥа
roman: ahïŋa
lang: Yiddish
word: היישעריק
roman: heysherik
lang: Zazaki
word: mele (diq)
lang: Zhuang
word: duzruemh