beetle

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , , from , , from , , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of numerous species of insect in the order  characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
 * 2)  A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ጢንዚዛ
 * Arabic: خُنْفُسَاء
 * Egyptian Arabic: جيز
 * Hijazi Arabic: خُنْفُسانة
 * Aragonese: escarabaxo
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese: karariang
 * Bashkir: ҡуңыҙ
 * Basque: kakalardo
 * Bau Bidayuh: gieng
 * Belarusian: жук, цвердакры́лы
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: kumbang
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: bakukang
 * Central Melanau: buyun
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 甲蟲
 * Hakka: 蛄仔
 * Hokkien: 龜仔
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chukchi: тыӄиӈэвыт
 * Crimean Tatar: qoñuz
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: skarabo
 * Estonian: mardikas
 * Faroese: klukka
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: escaravello
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Chäfer
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάνθαρος
 * Greenlandic: sikannertooq
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: pöröläin
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: қоңыз
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 갑충(甲蟲)
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: chëifer
 * Lao: ດ້ວງ, ແມງ
 * Latgalian: vabale, vaguls
 * Latin: coleopterum
 * Latvian: vabole
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Käver, Sever, Säver, Sebber
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: бумбар, тврдокрилец
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: کومبڠ
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: ħanfusa
 * Maori: pītara, tātaka, pāpapa, pepeke
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: chéłchaaʼ
 * Neapolitan: scarrafone
 * Northern Sami: gobbá
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bille
 * Occitan: escarabat
 * Old English: ċeafor
 * Old French: escharbot
 * Pashto: ګونګټ
 * Persian:, خبزدو
 * Plautdietsch: Kjniepa
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: akatanga
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тврдокрилац, бу̏ба
 * Roman: tvrdokrilac,
 * Shor: кӱйе
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: bruk
 * Upper Sorbian: žuk
 * Southern Altai: коҥус
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: grombōle
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: བསེ་ལེ་པད་གོག
 * Tigrinya: ሕንዚዝ
 * Tswana: khukhwane
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: tomzak
 * Ukrainian:, джук, хрущ, твердокри́лий
 * Urdu: بھونرا
 * Uyghur: قوڭغۇز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: bọ cánh cứng
 * Volapük:, karab
 * Welsh: chwilen
 * West Coast Bajau: utod
 * Wolof: gunóor
 * Yakut: хомурдуос
 * Yiddish: דזשוכע, זשוק

Verb

 * 1) To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
 * 2) * 1982,  (TV programme)
 * I beetled across to our table, but no Pauline, no Mr Cresswell, no Mr Rudyard.
 * I beetled across to our table, but no Pauline, no Mr Cresswell, no Mr Rudyard.

Etymology 2
From. Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.

Adjective

 * 1) Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
 * beetle brows

Verb

 * 1) To loom over; to extend or jut.
 * The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.

Etymology 3
From, from , , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
 * 2) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: трамбовка
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Holzhammer

Verb

 * 1) To beat with a heavy mallet.
 * 2) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
 * to beetle cotton goods