silkworm

English

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

silkworm (plural silkworms)

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

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
Persian: کرم ابریشم‎‎ (fa) (kerm-e abrišam)
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)

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