silkworm

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk +‎ worm.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlkwɜːm/

NounEdit

silkworm (plural silkworms)

1. Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.

Related termsEdit

• bombic
• bombycine

TranslationsEdit

caterpillar

• Afrikaans: sywurm
• Arabic: دُودَة اَلْقَزّ‎‎ f (dūdat al-qazz)
• Armenian: շերամ (hy) (šeram)
• Basque: zetar
• Catalan: cuc de seda (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家蠶 (zh), 家蚕 (zh) (jiācán), 蠶寶寶 (zh), 蚕宝宝 (zh) (cánbǎobǎo), 蠶 (zh), 蚕 (zh) (cán)

• Czech: bourec morušový m
• Danish: silkeorm (da) c
• Dutch: zijdevlinderrups f, zijderups (nl) f
• Esperanto: silkraŭpo
• Estonian: siidiuss
• Faroese: silkiormur m
• Finnish: silkkiäistoukka (fi), silkkitoukka (fi)
• French: ver à soie (fr) m
• Georgian: თუთის აბრეშუმხვევია (tutis abrešumxvevia), აბრეშუმის ჭია (abrešumis č̣ia)
• German: Seidenspinner m, Seidenraupe (de) f
• Greek: μεταξοσκώληκας (el) m (metaxoskólikas)
• Hebrew: טוואי המשי‎‎ m
• Hungarian: selyemhernyó (hu)
• Icelandic: silkiormur (is)
• Ido: silk-vermo
• Indonesian: ulat sutra (id)
• Interlingua: verme de seta

• Italian: baco da seta (it) m
• Japanese: 蚕 (ja) (かいこ, kaiko), 家蚕 (かさん, kasan), 野蚕 (やさん, yasan), カイコ (kaiko)
• Korean: 누에 (nue)
• Latin: bombyx m, f
• Lithuanian: šilkverpis m
• Malay: ulat sutera
• Norman: vèr à souaie m
• Norwegian: silkeorm
• Polish: jedwabnik morwowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: bicho-da-seda m
• Romanian: vierme de mătase (ro) m
• Russian: ту́товый шелкопря́д m (tútovyj šelkoprjád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дудов свилац m, свилобуба f, свилопреља f

  Roman: dudov svilac m, svilobuba f, sviloprelja f

• Sicilian: vermu dâ sita m
• Slovene: sviloprejka (sl) f
• Spanish: gusano de seda m
• Sundanese: hileud sutra
• Swedish: silkesfjäril c
• Thai: ตัวไหม (dtua măi), ไหม (th) (măi)
• Turkish: ipek böceği (tr)
• Vietnamese: tằm (vi)