megabat

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s

Proto-Hellenic *mégas

Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.

English mega-

English bat

English megabat

From mega- + bat.

Noun

megabat (plural megabats)

1. Any of the bats in the suborder Yinpterochiroptera; a fruit bat.

Synonyms

• flying fox (ambiguous, some sources limit the term "flying fox" to the genera Pteropus and Acerodon within Pteropodidae)
• fruit bat

Translations

bat of the family Pteropodidae

• Burmese: လင်းဆွဲ (my) (lang:hcwai:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: kaloň (cs) m
• Dutch: vliegende hond m, vleerhond (nl) m
• Finnish: hedelmälepakko
• French: mégachiroptère m
• German: Flughund (de) m, Flughündin f, (offspring, young) Flughundjunges n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: flughundur m
• Ilocano: panniki
• Indonesian: codot (id)
• Irish: ialtóg na meas f
• Japanese: 大蝙蝠 (オオコウモリ, ōkōmori)
• Korean: 큰박쥐 (keunbakjwi)
• Polish: rudawka f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: крыла́н (ru) m (krylán)
• Spanish: murciélago de fruta m
• Swahili: popo mkubwa
• Swedish: fruktfladdernus c
• Turkish: uçan köpek

Anagrams

• meatbag