वह कीड़ा जो मीठा मल यानी हनीड्यू बनाता है
B1 Hindi listening practice · Hindi · Curated for intermediate learners
What does “keeda” mean in Hindi?
Meet Mabel, the aphid whose sweet excretion is honeydew: «मेबल एक छोटा सा कीड़ा है» (“Mabel is a tiny insect”). कीड़ा (keeda) covers insect, bug, and worm all at once.
It crawls into idiom too. A किताबी कीड़ा (kitaabi keeda) is a “bookworm,” and if you have a कीड़ा for something, you’ve got the bug, an itch or obsession you can’t shake (पैसे कमाने का कीड़ा, the money-making bug). The clip’s science, ants farming aphids for their sugary honeydew, is a bonus. But कीड़ा is the word that bites.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸Hindi nature and science explainers dubbed for India.
- ▸Calling a devoted reader a किताबी कीड़ा (bookworm).
- ▸In Hindi for catching the “bug” for a hobby or goal.
- ▸In Indian gardening and pest-control talk.