flea

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, , from or akin to  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

The archaic plural fleen is from, , from.

Pronunciation



 * Homophones: flee

Noun

 * 1) A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
 * 2)  A thing of no significance.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аӡ
 * Afrikaans: vlooi
 * Aghwan:
 * Aklanon:
 * Albanian:
 * Amis: 'atimla^, 'atimela
 * Arabic: بُرْغُوث
 * Egyptian Arabic: برغوت
 * Aragonese: pulz
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: puric
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: чӏетӏ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: бөрсә
 * Basque: arkakuso
 * Bats: ფსიკ
 * Belarusian: блыха́
 * Bengali: উপমক্ষিকা
 * Bikol Central: purgas
 * Budukh: кӏид
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: сагал
 * Chepang: य्‍हुङः
 * Cherokee: ᏣᏑᎦ, ᏧᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: гызо, гәзо
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: tecpin
 * Crimean Tatar: bürçe
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: pulco
 * Danish:
 * Drung: svli
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: dosu
 * Faroese: loppa
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: pulç, pulč
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: რწყილი
 * German:, Flohmännchen , Flohweibchen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ψύλλη, ψύλλος
 * Guaraní: tûngusu
 * Haitian Creole: pis
 * Hawaiian: ʻuku
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: timel
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kerppu
 * Ingush: сагал
 * Interlingua: pulice
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kanakanabu: 'atiimua
 * Kazakh: бүрге
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Kikuyu: thuya, kĩroboto
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: كێچ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: کەیک
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໝັດ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Laz: მწკირი
 * Lezgi: чӏут
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: болва
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: pinjal
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: bergħud
 * Manchu: ᠰᡠᡵᠠᠨ
 * Manx: jargan
 * Mingrelian: წყირი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, нохой бөөс
 * Nanai: сора
 * Navajo: yaaʼ
 * Neapolitan: pollece
 * Northern Ohlone: pó̄r
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: loppe
 * Nynorsk: loppe
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: babig
 * Okinawan: 蚤
 * Old East Slavic: блъха, блоха, бълоха
 * Old English: flēah
 * Old Norse: fló
 * Oromo: tafkii
 * Ottoman Turkish: پیره, كیك
 * Pashto: ورږه
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Hupsflieej
 * Polabian: blåxă
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: piki
 * Romagnol: pólṣa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: pilesch, pelisch, pelesch, pülesch, pülsch
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: ကျံ
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: puighi, puliche, pulige, pulighe, pulixi
 * Scots: flae
 * Scottish Gaelic: deargad, deargann
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̀ва, бу̀ха
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, ,
 * Sinhalese: බලුමැක්‍කා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Slovincian: pchla
 * Somali: booddo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pcha, bcha
 * Upper Sorbian: tcha, pcha
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: ზჷსყ
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: чӏуд
 * Tagalog: pulgas, hanip
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: kek
 * Tamil:, ,
 * Taos: phìayána
 * Tarifit: šurdu
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལྗི་བ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پسو
 * Uyghur: بۈرگە
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: pulç, pulxo, polxe, pulexe, pułexe, pułega
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: fłuch
 * Volapük:, hiflib , jiflib
 * Welsh: chwain
 * West Coast Bajau:
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: былахы
 * Yámana: šinuš
 * Yiddish: פֿלוי
 * Yup'ik: keggerpak
 * Zazaki: kekı
 * Zhuang: maet

Verb

 * 1)  To remove fleas from (an animal).

Etymology 2
Alternative forms.