svarmo

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Etymology

From English swarm; compare also German Schwarm, Dutch zwerm, Danish sværm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Rhymes: -armo
Hyphenation: svar‧mo

Noun

svarmo (accusative singular svarmon, plural svarmoj, accusative plural svarmojn)

swarm, horde, mass, multitude (a large number of moving people, animals or other objects)
- Ivy Kellermann (translator), La Reĝo de la Ora Rivero (The King of the Golden River) by John Ruskin, Chapter 3,
  svarmo da nigraj formikoj rampis ĉirkaŭ ĝiaj lipoj kaj gorĝo.
  a swarm of black ants were crawling about lips and throat.
- Johán Valano (Claude Piron), Ĉu li venis trakosme? Ĉapitro 15,
  svarmo da infanoj kurantaj ĉialoken
  a swarm of children running everywhere
- L. L. Zamenhof (translator), “En la lasta tago” (“On Judgment Day”) in Fabeloj by Hans Christian Andersen,
  la tuta sennombra svarmo de la steloj
  the whole countless multitude of the stars

Related terms

abelsvarmo (“swarm of bees”)
fiŝsvarmo (“school of fish”)
svarma (“swarming”)
svarmi (“to swarm”)

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