hornet

See also: Hornet and hörnet

English

A hornet.

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hurznutō (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin crābrō (“hornet”), Lithuanian širšė (“wasp”), Old Church Slavonic сръшень (srŭšenĭ, “hornet”), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.nɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹ.nɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt

Noun

hornet (plural hornets)

1. A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
2. A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.

Derived terms

• Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
• Asian hornet (Vespa velutina)
• Australian hornet (Abispa ephippium)
• bald-faced hornet, bald hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• black-bellied hornet (Vespa basalis)
• black-tailed hornet (Vespa ducalis)
• European hornet (Vespa crabro)
• giant hornet (Vespa crabro germana)
• greater banded hornet (Vespa tropica)
• Japanese hornet (Vespa simillima)
• Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthptera)
• hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis)
• hornet fly (Asilus spp.)
• hornet moth (Sesia apiformis)
• hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis)
• lesser banded hornet (Vespa affinis)
• Oriental hornet, (Vespa orientalis)
• paper hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• sand hornet (Sphecius speciosus)
• white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera)
• yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina)
• green hornet
• Japanese giant hornet
• mad as a hornet
• murder hornet
• oriental hornet

Translations

a large wasp, of the genus Vespa, with a brown-and-yellow-striped body

• Albanian: greth (sq) m
• Arabic: زُنْبُور m (zunbūr)
• Armenian: ձիաբոռ (hy) (jiaboṙ), ձիաստաց (jiastacʻ)
• Assamese: কোদো (küdü), কোদো বৰল (küdü borol)
• Basque: liztortzar (eu)
• Belarusian: шэ́ршань m (šéršanʹ)
• Bengali: ভীমরুল (bhimrul)
• Breton: pennmarc'henn f, gwesped-koad
• Bulgarian: стъ́ршел (bg) m (stǎ́ršel)
• Burmese: ပျားတူ (my) (pya:tu)
• Catalan: vespa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大黃蜂／大黄蜂 (zh) (dàhuángfēng)

• Cimbrian: bumpala f
• Cornish: hwyrnores
• Czech: sršeň (cs) m
• Danish: hveps (da) c, gedehams c
• Dutch: hoornaar (nl) c, hoorntje (nl)
• Esperanto: krabro
• Estonian: vapsik (et)
• Finnish: herhiläinen (fi)
• French: frelon (fr) m
• Galician: carrizo (gl) m, tártago m
• Georgian: ონავარი (onavari)
• German: Hornisse (de) f
• Greek: σερσένι (el) f (serséni), σκούρκος m (skoúrkos)

  Ancient: ἀνθρηδών m (anthrēdṓn)

• Hebrew: צרעה (he) m (tzir'a), דַּבּוּר (he) m (dabbúr)
• Hungarian: lódarázs (hu)
• Ido: horniso (io)
• Ingrian: hörhöläin
• Irish: cearnabhán f
• Italian: calabrone (it) m
• Japanese: 雀蜂 (ja) (すずめばち, suzumebachi), スズメバチ (ja) (suzumebachi)
• Khmer: ញាំង (ñĕəng), តាហ៊រ (km) (taahɔɔ)
• Korean: 말벌 (ko) (malbeol), 호넷 (honet)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زەردەواڵە (ckb) (zerdewalle)

• Ladin: bespia da corn f
• Latgalian: šyršyns
• Latin: crābrō m
• Latvian: sirsenis (lv) m, irsis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: širšė
• Macedonian: стршен m (stršen)
• Malay: tebuan (ms)
• Navajo: tsísʼnáłtsooítsoh
• Norman: frêlon m
• Norwegian: geithams (no) m
• Ottoman Turkish: اشك آریسی (eşek arısı)
• Polabian: sarsin m
• Polish: szerszeń (pl) m
• Portuguese: vespão m, abelha-pedreira f
• Purepecha: tsïtsïsï
• Romanian: gărgăun (ro) m
• Romansch: vesprun m
• Russian: ше́ршень (ru) m (šéršenʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: ဖျၢ (hpluh)
• Sardinian: cardùbbulu m, gardùbbulu, ardùbbulu m
• Scottish Gaelic: connspeach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стршљен m

  Roman: stršljen (sh) m

• Shor: шашқақ
• Slovak: sršeň m
• Slovene: sršen (sl) m
• Spanish: avispón m
• Swedish: bålgeting (sv) c
• Tarifit: iyarẓẓi m
• Telugu: కందిరీగ (te) (kandirīga)
• Thai: แตน (th) (dtɛɛn)
• Turkish: eşek arısı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ше́ршень m (šéršenʹ)
• Venetian: avón, graùgn m, graón m, gravarón, cavaƚarón m
• Vilamovian: hjenc
• Walloon: fonnet (wa)
• Welsh: cacynen (cy) f, cacwn pl
• Yiddish: פֿערדבין f (ferdbin)

See also

• bee
• wasp

Anagrams

• 'nother, Rhoten, Theron, Thoren, Thorne, enhort, nother, other'n, throne

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hornet n

1. definite singular of horn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hornet n

1. definite singular of horn

Swedish

Noun

hornet

1. definite singular of horn