FOREIGN WORDS FOR ANT/ANTS:

Country:	Foreign Word(s):
Afrikaans	mier
Brasilian	formiga
Bengali	pi~pre
Catalan	formiga/formigues
Chinese	ma/yi~ (Mandarin dialect) Simplified Version Ming Type (Complicated Version)
Czech	mravenec
Danish	myre
Dutch	mier/mieren Some dialects: piesmette, mieërmeet, and mierre
English	ants archaic - emmet, pismire
Esperanto	formiko
Estonian	sipelgas
Filipino	langgam/mga langgam
Finnish	muurahaiset
French	fourmi/fourmis
Frisian	eamelder/miammel (singular)
Georgian	jenjola
German	ameise/ameisen (New German) emmet/emse (Old German/Hochdeutsch) Miere (Old German/Niederdeutsch) Mooringer Friesisch (Schleswig/Holstein-Germany; åntertemånter) Sölring (Northern Frisian Dialect; German island "Sylt"; müürk)
Greek	myrmigki
Hawaiian	naonao
Hebrew	nimla
Hungarian	hangya
Indonesian	Semut/Semut-semut
Iraq	namla
Irish	seangán
Italian	formica/formiche
Japanese	ari - AA rIY(phonemicsymbols) arinko - AA rIY N kAO(phonemicsymbols)
Korean
Latin	Formica/Formicae
Navajos	wol-la-chee
Norwegian	maur (singular)
Polish	mrówki
Portuguese/Brazilian	formigas
Russian	muravei
Spanish	hormiga/hormigas
Swahili	sisimize
Swedish	myr/myror
Swiss (German dialects)	ameisi/ampeisi

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Thanks to: asanjuan, Bodo Dietz, Björn Nylander, Changlu Wang, David Kosik, Dr. Ant, Geert Schröder, Johannes Martin, Johan Potgieter, Kalimant, kazita00, Laurence May Jr., Niek Willems, nugi81, Rebecca Stumfall, Simo Väänänen, Teleutotje, Xavier Gelabert, Zanti Agent, and Wish Chang for sending in the foreign words for ant/ants.

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