English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cocon, diminutive of coque (“shell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cocoon (plural cocoons)
- The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
- Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
Translations
protective case
- Arabic: شَرْنَقَة (ar) f (šarnaqa)
- Armenian: բոժոժ (hy) (božož), խոզակ (hy) (xozak)
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пашкул (bg) m (paškul), какавида f (kakavida)
- Burmese: ပိုးအိမ် (my) (pui:im)
- Catalan: capoll (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 繭／茧 (zh) (jiǎn), 茧 (zh) (jiǎn)
- Czech: kukla (cs) f, kokon m
- Danish: kokon (da) c
- Esperanto: kokono
- Estonian: nukk, kookon
- Faroese: spunahylki n
- Finnish: kotelo (fi); kokongi (cocoon of silkworm)
- French: cocon (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Kokon (de) m
- Greek: κουκούλι (el) n (koukoúli)
- Gujarati: કોશેટો m (kośeṭo)
- Hebrew: פְּקַעַת (he) f (pqá'at)
- Hindi: कोकून (kokūn)
- Hungarian: gubó (hu), selyemgubó, báb (hu)
- Icelandic: lirfuhýði n, egghylki n
- Ido: kokono (io)
- Irish: cocún m
- Italian: bozzolo (it) m
- Japanese: 繭 (ja) (まゆ, mayu)
- Khmer: សំបុកនាង (sɑmbok nieng)
- Korean: 고치 (gochi) (繭 (ko))
- Latvian: kokons m
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Macedonian: кокона f (kokona)
- Maori: kopa (mi)
- Marathi: कोश (koś)
- Navajo: kʼaalógii bitʼoh (for a butterfly), iichʼąhii bitʼoh (for a moth)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kokong m
- Nynorsk: kokong m
- Persian: پیله (fa) (pile)
- Polish: kokon (pl) m
- Portuguese: casulo (pt) m
- Romanian: cocon (ro) m, gogoașă (ro) f, gogoașă de mătase (ro) f
- Russian: ко́кон (ru) m (kókon)
- Scottish Gaelic: cochall m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- ROman: čahura (sh) f
- Slovak: kokón m, kukla f
- Slovene: buba (sl) f
- Spanish: capullo (es) m
- Swedish: puppa (sv) c
- Tagalog: tilas, supot-uod
- Telugu: కోశము (te) (kōśamu)
- Thai: ดักแด้ (th) (dàk-dɛ̂ɛ)
- Turkish: koza (tr)
- Ukrainian: ко́кон m (kókon)
- Urdu: کوکُون (kokūn)
- Vietnamese: kén (vi) (繭 (vi))
- Volapük: kokun
- Welsh: cocŵn m
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
cocoon (third-person singular simple present cocoons, present participle cocooning, simple past and past participle cocooned)
- (transitive) To envelop in a protective case
- (intransitive) To withdraw into such a case.
Translations
envelop in a protective case
withdraw into such a case
