glowworm

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From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow + worm. Compare cognate German Glühwurm; compare also firefly, lightning bug, and lanternfly.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: يَرَاع (yarāʕ) — beetle larva or female
• Arabic: حَبَاحِب (ḥabāḥib) — beetle larva or female
• Aromanian: licurici — beetle larva or female
• Asturian: cocu de lluz — beetle larva or female
• Asturian: guxán de lluz — beetle larva or female
• Basque: ipurtargi — beetle larva or female
• Belarusian: святляк (svjatljak) — beetle larva or female
• Catalan: lluerna — beetle larva or female
• Chamicuro: puulo — beetle larva or female
• Chinese Mandarin: 螢火蟲 /萤火虫 (yínghuǒchóng) — beetle larva or female
• Dutch: glimworm — beetle larva or female
• Erzya: орине (orine) — beetle larva or female
• Esperanto: lampiro — beetle larva or female
• Estonian: jaaniuss — beetle larva or female
• Finnish: kiiltomato — beetle larva or female
• French: ver luisant — beetle larva or female
• Galician: vagalume — beetle larva or female
• Galician: lucecú — beetle larva or female
• German: Glühwürmchen — beetle larva or female
• German: Leuchtkäfer — beetle larva or female
• German: Johanniswürmchen — beetle larva or female
• German: Johanniskäfer — beetle larva or female
• Ancient Greek: λαμπυρίς (lampurís) — beetle larva or female
• Ancient Greek: πυγολαμπίς (pugolampís) — beetle larva or female
• Hungarian: szentjánosbogár — beetle larva or female
• Ido: lampiro — beetle larva or female
• Ingrian: tulimato — beetle larva or female
• Ingrian: jaanimato — beetle larva or female
• Ingrian: hiirenvalkia — beetle larva or female
• Japanese: グローワーム (gurōwāmu) — beetle larva or female
• Japanese: ツチボタル (tsuchibotaru) — beetle larva or female
• Latin: lampyris — beetle larva or female
• Low German: Glimmerworm — beetle larva or female
• Malayalam: മിന്നാമിനുങ്ങ് (minnāminuṅṅŭ) — beetle larva or female
• Māori: titiwai — beetle larva or female
• Māori: pūrātoke — beetle larva or female
• Norman: vèrpeu — beetle larva or female
• Polish: świetlik — beetle larva or female
• Polish: robaczek świętojański — beetle larva or female
• Portuguese: vaga-lume — beetle larva or female
• Romanian: licurici — beetle larva or female
• Russian: светля́к (svetlják) — beetle larva or female
• Russian: жук-светля́к (žuk-svetlják) — beetle larva or female
• Spanish: luciérnaga — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: மின்மினி (miṉmiṉi) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: மின்மினிப் பூச்சி (miṉmiṉip pūcci) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: கண்ணாம் பூச்சி (kaṇṇām pūcci) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: கீடமணி (kīṭamaṇi) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: அலத்தி (alatti) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: ஞலவல் (ñalaval) — beetle larva or female
• Tamil: சிலமீலிகை (cilamīlikai) — beetle larva or female
• Telugu: మిణుగురుపురుగు (miṇugurupurugu) — beetle larva or female
• Turkish: ateş böceği — beetle larva or female
• Ottoman Turkish: آتش بوجكی (ateş böceği) — beetle larva or female
• Ottoman Turkish: یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği) — beetle larva or female
• Vietnamese: đom đóm — beetle larva or female
• Welsh: magïen — beetle larva or female
• Welsh: pryf y tân — beetle larva or female