antlion in Arabic
لَيْث عِفِرِّين layṯ ʕifirrīn
/ˈænt.laɪ.ən/
antlion in Arabic: لَيْث عِفِرِّين (layṯ ʕifirrīn), أَسَد النَّمْلِ (ʔasad an-namli). In English, antlion means any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
Arabic words for antlion
- nocturnal insects
- لَيْث عِفِرِّين layṯ ʕifirrīn, أَسَد النَّمْلِ ʔasad an-namli
English meaning of antlion
- noun Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
antlion in other languages
Questions about antlion in Arabic
- What is the meaning of antlion in Arabic?
- Antlion in Arabic is لَيْث عِفِرِّين (layṯ ʕifirrīn), أَسَد النَّمْلِ (ʔasad an-namli).
- ما معنى كلمة antlion؟
- Antlion: لَيْث عِفِرِّين (layṯ ʕifirrīn), أَسَد النَّمْلِ (ʔasad an-namli).
- What does antlion mean in English?
- Antlion means any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: antlion (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-antlion.wav.
Cite this page: “antlion meaning in Arabic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/arabic/antlion. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.