cocoon

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Etymology

From French cocon, diminutive of coque (“shell”).

Noun

cocoon (plural cocoons)

1. The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
2. 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
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• 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

• 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

Verb

cocoon (third-person singular simple present cocoons, present participle cocooning, simple past and past participle cocooned)

1. To envelop in a protective case, or to withdraw into such a case.