English
Etymology
From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk + worm.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪlkwɜːm/
Noun
silkworm (plural silkworms)
- Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.
Derived terms
Translations
caterpillar
- Afrikaans: sywurm
- Albanian: krimbi i mëndafshit m, krimb mëndafshi m
- Arabic: دُودَة اَلْقَزّ f (dūdat al-qazz)
- Aramaic: ܙܚܘܪܝܬܐ
- Armenian: շերամ (hy) (šeram)
- Assamese: পাট পলু (pat polu)
- Asturian: vierme de seda
- Azerbaijani: tut ipəkqurdu, barama (az) (dialect)
- Basque: zetar
- Belarusian: ту́тавы шаўкапра́д m (tútavy šaŭkaprád)
- Bengali: তুঁত রেশম (tũt reśom)
- Bulgarian: копринена пеперуда f (koprinena peperuda)
- Catalan: cuc de seda (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 家蠶 / 家蚕 (zh) (jiācán), 蠶寶寶 / 蚕宝宝 (zh) (cánbǎobǎo), 蠶 / 蚕 (zh) (cán)
- Czech: bourec morušový m, bourec 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, magnan (fr) m
- Galician: verme da seda m
- Georgian: თუთის აბრეშუმხვევია (tutis abrešumxvevia), აბრეშუმის ჭია (abrešumis č̣ia)
- German: Seidenspinner (de) m, Seidenraupe (de) f
- Greek: μεταξοσκώληκας (el) m (metaxoskólikas)
- Ancient: βόμβυξ m (bómbux)
- Hebrew: טוואי המשי m (tevay hameshi)
- Hindi: रेशम कीट (reśam kīṭ)
- Hungarian: selyemhernyó (hu)
- Icelandic: silkiormur (is) m
- Ido: silk-vermo, silkoraupo (io)
- Indonesian: ulat sutra (id)
- Interlingua: verme de seta
- Irish: seiriceán m
- Italian: baco da seta (it) m, filugello m, bombice m, bigatto m
- Japanese: 蚕 (ja) (かいこ, kaiko), 家蚕 (ja) (かさん, kasan), 野蚕 (ja) (やさん, yasan), カイコ (ja) (kaiko)
- Jarai: hlăt mrai
- Kazakh: жібеккөбелек (jıbekköbelek)
- Korean: 누에 (nue)
- Kyrgyz: тыт жибек көпөлөгү (tıt jibek köpölögü)
- Lao: ໄໝ (lo) (mai), ມ້ອນ (mǭn), ບີ້ (bī)
- Latin: bombyx m or f
- Latvian: zīdtauriņš m, zīdtārpiņš m
- Lithuanian: šilkverpis m
- Lü: ᦺᦖ (ṁay), ᦷᦎᦡᦻᧉ (ṫoḋaay²), ᦶᦙᧈᦺᦖ (mae¹ṁay), ᦶᦙᧈᦡᦻᧉ (mae¹ḋaay²)
- Macedonian: свилена буба f (svilena buba)
- Malagasy: bibindandy (mg)
- Malay: ulat sutera
- Malayalam: പട്ടുനൂൽപ്പുഴു (ml) (paṭṭunūlppuḻu)
- Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠣᠣ
ᡠᠮᡳᠶᠠᡥᠠ (biyoo umiyaha)
- Manx: crooag-heeidey f
- Marathi: रेशमाचे किडे (reśmāce kiḍe)
- Middle English: silkwirm
- Nepali: रेसम किरा (resam kirā)
- Norman: vèr à souaie m
- North Frisian: siisenspaner
- Norwegian: silkeorm
- Bokmål: silkeorm m
- Nynorsk: silkeorm m
- Occitan: manhan (oc) m, babòta m
- Old Czech: bavlník m
- Old English: seolcwyrm m
- Ottoman Turkish: ایپك بوجكی (ipek böceği)
- Persian: کرم ابریشم (fa) (kerm-e abrišam)
- Polish: jedwabnik morwowy (pl) m, jedwabnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: bicho-da-seda m, sirgo (pt) m
- Quechua: murira pillpintu
- Romanian: vierme de mătase (ro) m
- Russian: ту́товый шелкопря́д (ru) m (tútovyj šelkoprjád), шелкопря́д (ru) m (šelkoprjád)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дудов свилац m, свилобуба f, свилопреља f
- Roman: dudov svilac m, svilobuba f, sviloprelja f
- Sicilian: vermu dâ sita m
- Slovak: priadka morušová f
- Slovene: sviloprejka (sl) f
- Spanish: gusano de seda m
- Sundanese: hileud sutra
- Swedish: silkesmask (sv) c
- Tajik: кирми абрешим (tg) (kirm-i abrešim)
- Tamil: பட்டுப்புழு (ta) (paṭṭuppuḻu), பட்டுப்பூச்சி (ta) (paṭṭuppūcci)
- Telugu: పట్టుపురుగు (te) (paṭṭupurugu)
- Thai: ตัวไหม (th) (dtua măi), ไหม (th) (măi), บี้ (th) (bîi)
- Turkish: ipek böceği (tr)
- Ukrainian: шовковичний шовкопряд m (šovkovyčnyj šovkoprjad), шовкопряд m (šovkoprjad)
- Urdu: ریشم کا کیڑا
- Vietnamese: tằm (vi)
- Welsh: sidanbryf m
- Zhuang: nonsei
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