locust

Etymology
From, , from , , and their source,. .

The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare ), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a.

The sense in "Mainlander" is a, also meaning "locust".

Noun

 * 1) Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family  that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation,.
 * 2)  A fruit or pod of a.
 * 3) Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera  and ; locust tree.
 * 4) A cicada.
 * 5)  A Mainlander.
 * 1)  A Mainlander.

Usage notes

 * Sometimes confused with.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አንበጣ
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: nagonełchʼiigi
 * Arabic: جَرَادَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جراد, جرادة
 * Hijazi Arabic: جرادة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: lãcustã, gãlãgustã, scarcaletsu, acridhã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: саранчу́к, саранча́
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ကျိုင်းကောင်, ကျိုင်
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: цӏоз
 * Cherokee: ᎶᎶ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 蝗蟲
 * Dungan: хуончун
 * Hokkien:, 蝗蟲
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 蝗蟲
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vandregræshoppe,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: таста
 * Esperanto: akrido,
 * Estonian: rändtirts
 * Finnish:
 * Fon: gbokle
 * French: ,
 * Galician: langosta,
 * Georgian: კალია
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀκρίς
 * Hausa: fàra
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: टिड्डी
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: lócaiste
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: durun
 * Kazakh: шегіртке
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کولە
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຕັກແຕນ, ງ້ວງ
 * Latin: locusta
 * Latvian: sisenis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: скакулец
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: വെട്ടുകിളി
 * Maltese: ġurat
 * Manchu: ᠰᡝᠪᠰᡝᡥᡝᡵᡳ
 * Maori: māwhitiwhiti, rangataua, pākaurere
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii, wóóneeshchʼįįdii nahachaʼígíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: græsstapa, græshoppa
 * Old High German: hewispranga
 * Old Javanese: walaṅ
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor: мӕдух
 * Iron: мӕтых
 * Panamint: tsapitta
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Heischrakj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Santali: ᱯᱳᱦᱳ
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: скакавац, цврчак, зрикавац
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: saranča
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Sami: kraesienjålhtja
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: balang
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཚ་ག་བ
 * Tigrinya: ኣንበጣ
 * Tocharian B: śalāp
 * Tswana: tsie
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çekirtge
 * Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎗𐎁𐎊
 * Ukrainian: сарана́
 * Urdu: ٹڈی
 * Uyghur: چېكەتكە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: locust, locustiaid
 * Wolof: njéeréer
 * Yiddish: היישעריק
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: duzruemh

Verb

 * 1)  To come in a swarm.