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[โ€“] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't know if you're joking, but in french, bats are called "chauve-souris", which literally means "bald mouse".

[โ€“] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And in German a bat is a Fledermaus, which literally means "wing-mouse"

[โ€“] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ratpenat in Catalan, winged rat.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Serbian, we just call them blind rat.

[โ€“] SeekPie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

In Estonian they're "nahkhiir", which means skin + rat.