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Etymology
From French cocon, diminutive of coque (“shell”).
Noun
cocoon (plural cocoons)
- The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
- Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
Translations
protective case
- Arabic: شرنقة (ar) (shárnaqa) f
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пашкул (bg) (paškul) m, какавида (bg) (kakavida) f
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: capoll (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 繭 (cmn), 茧 (cmn) (jiǎn)
- Czech: kukla (cs) f
- Danish: kokon (da) c
- Esperanto: kokono (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: spunahylki (fo) n
- Finnish: kotelo (fi)
- French: cocon (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Kokon (de) m
- Greek: κουκούλι (el) (koukoúli) n
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
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- Hindi: कोकून (hi) (kōkūn)
- Hungarian: gubó (hu), selyemgubó (hu), báb (hu)
- Icelandic: lirfuhýði (is) n, egghylki (is) n
- Ido: kokono (io)
- Irish: cocún (ga) m
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- Italian: bozzolo (it) m
- Japanese: 繭 (ja) (まゆ, mayu)
- Khmer: សំបុកនាង (km) (sɑmbok nieng)
- Korean: 고치 (ko) (gochi) (繭 (ko))
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
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- Portuguese: casulo (pt) m
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- Russian: кокон (ru) (kókon) m
- Scottish Gaelic: cochall (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian: čahura (sh) f
- Slovak: kokón (sk) m
- Slovene: buba (sl) f
- Spanish: capullo (es) m
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: కోశము (te) (kōśamu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: koza (tr)
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- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: kén (vi) (繭 (vi))
- Volapük: kokun (vo)
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- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
cocoon (third-person singular simple present cocoons, present participle cocooning, simple past and past participle cocooned)
- To envelop in a protective case, or to withdraw into such a case.
