tarantula

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from (compare Modern 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬). probably from.

Sense 3 (“”) is the original sense of the word, and refers to the fact that the spider was common in the Apulia region where Taranto is located. Sense 1 (“New World spider in the family Theraphosidae”), the main modern sense of the word, may have been a transferred use of 🇨🇬 to describe large, hairy spiders found in the New World.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the large, hairy New World spiders comprising the family.
 * 2)  A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder  to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
 * 3)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder  to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
 * 2)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder  to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
 * 2)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder  to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
 * 2)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A member of certain other groups of spiders, generally characterized by large size, hairiness, or membership of infraorder  to which Theraphosidae family also belongs.
 * 2)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).
 * 1)  A species of wolf spider,, native to southern Europe, the mildly poisonous bite of which was once thought to cause an extreme urge to dance (tarantism).

Translations

 * Arabic: رُتَيْل
 * Hijazi Arabic: رُتيلا, رُتيل
 * Armenian: սարդ-թռչնակեր, մկնասարդ
 * Assamese: বাঘ মকৰা
 * Bashkir: бөйө
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: hyp·yp·i-
 * Cheyenne: ma'xemo'ôhtáevé'ho'e
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 捕鳥蛛
 * Czech: tarantule
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: tarantulo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: טָרַנְטוּלָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: tarantúla
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 大土蜘蛛
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: tarantul, tevnpîrka gir
 * Latvian: tarantuls, putnu zirneklis
 * Navajo: naałʼaashii
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: apanqura, apasanka
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, пау́к-птицея́д
 * Scottish Gaelic: tarantula
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̏ӯк пти̏ча̄р
 * Latin: pȁūk ptȉčār
 * Spanish: tarántula
 * Swahili: bui
 * Swedish:
 * Zoogocho Zapotec: šojtaoꞌ


 * Arabic: رُتَيْل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 狼蜘蛛
 * Danish: tarantel
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: taranteli,, provencentaranteli
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 子守蜘蛛,
 * Kazakh: түкті мигаломорф
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tarantell
 * Nynorsk: tarantell
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: aranha-lobo
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тара̀нтула, тара̀нтел, тара̀нтела
 * Latin:, taràntel,
 * Spanish: tarántula
 * Uzbek:

Etymology
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Declension

 * There's no established inflection for this word. Most commonly it is treated as "koira"-type nominal, but also "kulkija"- and "kala"-types have their supporters.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) wolf spider
 * , theraphosid