English
Etymology
From book + worm.
Pronunciation
Noun
bookworm (plural bookworms)
- Any of various insects that infest books.
- An avid book reader.
Translations
avid reader
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 书虫 (zh) (shūchóng), 書蟲／书虫 (zh) (shūchóng)
- Czech: knihomol (cs) m
- Danish: bogorm (da) c
- Dutch: boekenwurm (nl) m
- Finnish: kirjatoukka
- French: rat de bibliothèque (fr), papivore (fr)
- German: Bücherwurm (de) m, Leseratte (de) f
- Greek: βιβλιοφάγος (el) m or f (vivliofágos), βιβλιόφιλος (el) m (vivliófilos), φιλαναγνώστης (el) m (filanagnóstis)
- Hebrew: תולעת ספרים (he) (tola'at sfarym)
- Hungarian: könyvmoly (hu)
- Indonesian: kutu buku (id), ulat buku
- Italian: bibliofago m, topo di biblioteca m
- Japanese: 本の虫 (honnomushi)
- Kannada: ಕುಡುಮಿ (kuḍumi)
- Kazakh: кітап құрты (kıtap qūrty)
- Korean: 독서광 (dokseogwang)
- Macedonian: книжен молец m (knižen molec), книгољубец m (knigoljubec)
- Malay: kutu buku, ulat buku
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- Manx: sheer-lhaider m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lesehest
- Polish: mól książkowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: rato de biblioteca m, bibliófago (pt) m
- Romanian: șoarece de bibliotecă (ro) f
- Russian: кни́жный червь (ru) m (knížnyj červʹ), книгое́д (ru) m (knigojéd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: књишки мољац m
- Roman: knjiški moljac m
- Slovak: knihomoľ m
- Slovene: knjižni molj m
- Spanish: ratón de biblioteca m, bibliófilo (es) m, tragalibros m or f, comelibros m or f, letraherido m
- Swedish: bokmal (sv) c
- Tagalog: palabasa
- Thai: หนอนหนังสือ (nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
- Turkish: kitap kurdu (tr)
- Vietnamese: tay mọt sách
- Welsh: llyfrbryf m
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