praying mantis

Etymology
Mantis from Greek. Named "praying mantis" for their stance, with the forelegs held together in a way that resembles a person praying. Similar designations exist in many European as well as non-European languages. Compare for example 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order  that have a prayer-like stance.
 * 2)  A mantid of the species.
 * 3) A woman who preys on men (from the idea that female praying mantises eat males after sex).

Translations

 * Abinomn: tigʷərere
 * Afrikaans: hottentotsgod
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فَرَس اَلنَّبِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: dəvədəlləyi
 * Basque: marisorgin
 * Belarusian: багамо́л
 * Bulgarian: богомо́лка
 * Catalan: mantodeu,, pregamans
 * Cebuano: simbasimba
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: хузы
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: kudlanka nábožná,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Fangschrecke
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ájtatos manó
 * Ilocano: wasaywasay
 * Italian: mantide religiosa
 * Japanese: 螳螂,
 * Kaingang: jókaka
 * Khmer: កណ្ដូបសេះ
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ແມງມ້າ
 * Latvian: dievlūdzējs
 * Lithuanian: maldininkas
 * Macedonian: богомолка
 * Maori: rō, whē
 * Navajo: Naakaii náázééł
 * Persian:
 * Pnar: chyrtoh
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, cavalinho-de-deus
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: богомољка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kudlanka, kudlanka nábožná
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,  ,  ,  ,  , triquitesa , usamico
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sambasamba, sasamba, mandadangkal
 * Thai: ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว, ตั๊กแตนต่อยมวย
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: богомо́л


 * Danish:


 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: богомолка
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, eurooppalainen rukoilijasirkka
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Kapampangan: kansasamba
 * Russian: обыкнове́нный богомо́л
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: