From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant hill.
anthill (plural anthills)
- A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
- Hyponym: termite mound
- Coordinate term: anthole
home of ants and termites
- Armenian: մրջնաբույն (hy) (mrǰnabuyn), մրջնոց (hy) (mrǰnocʻ)
- Aromanian: furnicar n, furnicami f
- Asturian: formigueru (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: qarışqa yuvası
- Bashkir: иләү (iləw)
- Basque: inurritegi (eu)
- Belarusian: мура́шнік m (murášnik)
- Bulgarian: мраву́няк (bg) m (mravúnjak)
- Burmese: ခြတောင်ပို့ (my) (hkra.taungpui.)
- Buryat: шоргоолзоной бута (šorgoolzonoj buta), шоргоолзоной үүр (šorgoolzonoj üür)
- Catalan: formiguer m (ants), termiter m (termites)
- Cebuano: bungtod
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蟻丘/蚁丘 (zh) (yǐqiū)
- Czech: mraveniště (cs) n
- Danish: myretue c
- Dutch: mierenhoop (nl) m, mierennest (nl) n
- Erzya: коткудавкудо (kotkudavkudo), коткудавпизэ (kotkudavpize)
- Esperanto: formikejo
- Estonian: sipelgapesa (et), termiidipesa
- Finnish: muurahaiskeko (fi)
- French: fourmilière (fr) f (ants), termitière (fr) f (termites)
- Friulian: furmiâr m
- Galician: formigueiro (gl) m
- Georgian: ჭიანჭველების ბუდე (č̣ianč̣velebis bude)
- German: Ameisenhaufen (de) m, Ameisenhügel m
- Greek: μυρμηγκοφωλιά (el) f (myrmigkofoliá)
- Ancient Greek: μυρμηκιά f (murmēkiá)
- Hiligaynon: lungsod
- Hindi: वल्मीक (hi) (valmīk)
- Hungarian: hangyaboly (hu)
- Icelandic: mauraþúfa (is) f
- Interlingua: formicario
- Irish: nead seangán m
- Italian: formicaio (it) m
- Japanese: 蟻塚 (ja) (ありづか, arizuka), アリの巣 (アリのす, ari no su), 蟻の塔 (ありのとう, ari no tō)
- Kashubian: mrowiszcze n
- Kazakh: илеу (ileu)
- Korean: 개미집 (gaemijip), 개미총 (gaemichong), 개미둑 (gaemiduk), 개미탑 (gaemitap)
- Kyrgyz: кумурска уясы (kumurska uyası)
- Lao: ຂວຍມົດ (khuāi mot)
- Latin: formicarium n, formicarum agmen n
- Latvian: skudru pūznis m
- Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
- Macedonian: мравјалник m (mravjalnik)
- Malay: busut (ms)
- Malayalam: പുറ്റ് (ml) (puṟṟŭ), ചിതൽപുറ്റ് (citalpuṟṟŭ) (termite mound)
- Maltese: bejta tan-nemel
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шоргоолжны үүр (šorgoolžny üür)
- Nahuatl:
- Classical: āzcaxālli, tzīcatepētl, āzcapōtzalli
- Highland Puebla: a̱scata̱l
- Northern Puebla: ascapotzali
- Tetelcingo: tetzicatlöli̱, tzicatlöli̱
- Navajo: wááláchíí bighan
- Norman: freunmionniéthe f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: maurtue m or f
- Nynorsk: maurtue f, maurtuve f
- Old English: ǣmethyll f
- Ottoman Turkish: قرنجهلق (karıncalık)
- Persian: آشیان مور (âšiyân-e mur)
- Polish: mrowisko (pl) n
- Portuguese: formigueiro (pt) m (ants), cupinzeiro m (termites)
- Quechua: sik'imira
- Romanian: furnicar (ro) n, mușuroi (ro) n
- Russian: мураве́йник (ru) m (muravéjnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мра̀виња̄к m
- Roman: mràvinjāk (sh) m
- Slovak: mravenisko n
- Slovene: mravljišče (sl) n
- Spanish: hormiguero (es) m
- Swahili: kichuguu (sw), kingulima
- Swedish: myrstack (sv) c
- Tagalog: punso, bahay-langgam, bahay-anay, pusyo
- Tajik: мурчахона (murčaxona), мӯрчахона (mürčaxona)
- Thai: รังมด (rang-mót)
- Turkish: karınca yuvası (tr)
- Ukrainian: мура́шник m (murášnyk)
- Uzbek: chumoli uyasi
- Vietnamese: tổ kiến
- West Coast Bajau: punsu
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