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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɜːm/
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• US: wûrm
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• US: /wɝm/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)m
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• homophone: wyrm
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• CMU ARPABET: W ER1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Danish and German Worm.

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *wurmiz Proto-West Germanic *wurmi Old English wyrm Middle English worm English worm From Middle English werm, wirm, worm, worme, wrim, wurm, wyrm, wyrme, from Old English weorm, wurm, wyrm, from Proto-West Germanic *wurmi, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm; snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm; larva”), possibly from *wer- (“to turn”). Doublet of vermin and wyrm, the latter of which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English. (computing): First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider. Cognates Germanic cognates include North Frisian wörem, wörm, Würem (“worm”), Saterland Frisian Wurm, Wúurm (“worm”), West Frisian wjirm (“worm”), Alemannic German Wüüre (“worm”), Cimbrian bórm (“worm”), burm (“snake”), Dutch worm, wurm (“worm”), German Gewürm (“vermin”), Wurm (“worm”), Low German Worm (“worm”), Luxembourgish Wuerm (“worm”), Mòcheno burm (“snake”), Vilamovian vūəm, wüm (“worm”), Yiddish וואָרעם (vorem, “worm”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish orm (“worm”), Faroese and Icelandic ormur (“worm”), Norwegian Nynorsk orm (“worm”), yrme, yrmle (“female snake with offspring”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃 (waurms, “snake”), Kildin Sami уррьм (urr’m, “gadfly larva”), Skolt Sami uʹrmm (“gadfly larva”). Indo-European cognates include Latin vermis (“worm”), Ancient Greek ῥόμοξ (rhómox), ῥόμος (rhómos, “woodworm”), Albanian rrime (“rainworm”).

415 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: skoks — animal
• Abenaki: skoksis — animal
• Acehnese: ulat — animal
• Afrikaans: wurm — animal
• Ainu: キキㇼ (kikir) — animal
• Albanian: krimb — animal
• Southern Altai: курт (kurt) — animal
• Alutor: энгам (enɣam) — animal
• Amharic: ትል (təl) — animal
• Arabic: دُودَة (dūda) — animal
• Arabic: دُود (dūd) — animal
• Arabic: دود (dūd) — animal
• Arabic: دودة (dūda) — animal
• Arabic: دود (dūd) — animal
• Hassaniya Arabic: دود (dūd) — animal
• Iraqi Arabic: دود (dūd) — animal
• Iraqi Arabic: سلبوح (salbūħ) — animal
• Arabic: دودة (duda) — animal
• Arabic: دودي (dūdi) — animal
• Arabic: سوسي (sūsi) — animal
• Arabic: دودة (dude) — animal
• Tunisian Arabic: دودة (dūda) — animal
• Yemeni Arabic: تعاله (taʕālih) — animal
• Yemeni Arabic: وقزه (wagzih) — animal
• Armenian: որդ (ord) — animal
• Armenian: ճիճու (čiču) — animal
• Old Armenian: որդն (ordn) — animal
• Aromanian: yermu — animal
• Asturian: guxán — animal
• Asturian: cocu — animal
• Asturian: viérbene — animal
• Atayal: bisuw — animal
• Azerbaijani: qurd — animal
• Azerbaijani: soxulcan — animal
• Bashkir: ҡорт (qort) — animal
• Bashkir: селәүсен (eathworm) — animal
• Basque: beldar — animal
• Basque: zizare — animal
• Basque: arr — animal
• Basque: har — animal
• Belarusian: чарвя́к (čarvják) — animal
• Bengali: কীট (kiṭ) — animal
• Bhojpuri: कीड़ा (kīṛā) — animal
• Central Bikol: ulod — animal
• Breton: preñv — animal
• Budukh: чич (čič) — animal
• Bulgarian: че́рвей (čérvej) — animal
• Burmese: တီကောင် (tikaung) — animal
• Burmese: သန်ကောင် (sankaung) — animal
• Catalan: cuc — animal
• Cebuano: ulod — animal
• Chamicuro: keni — animal
• Chechen: нӏаьна (nˀäna) — animal
• Chickasaw: hayowani' — animal
• Chinese Mandarin: 蠕蟲 /蠕虫 (rúchóng) — animal
• Choctaw: lakcho — animal
• Chuvash: хурт (hurt) — animal
• East Circassian: хьэпӏацӏэ (ḥɛpʼacʼɛ) — animal
• East Circassian: хьэмбылыу (ḥɛmbələwu) — animal
• West Circassian: хьамлыу (ḥamləwu) — animal
• West Circassian: хьэблыу (ḥɛbləwu) — animal
• Cornish: pryv — animal
• Cornish: prev — animal
• Czech: červ — animal
• Old Czech: črv — animal
• Danish: orm — animal
• Daur: xorgw — animal
• Dutch: worm — animal
• Dutch: pier — animal
• Dutch: wurm — animal
• Egyptian: f:n:T-I14 (fnṯ) — animal
• Erzya: сукс (suks) — animal
• Esperanto: vermo — animal
• Estonian: uss — animal
• Finnish: mato — animal
• French: ver — animal
• North Frisian: wörem — animal
• Saterland Frisian: Wuurm — animal
• Friulian: vier — animal
• Galician: verme — animal
• Galician: miñoca — animal
• Galician: lombriga — animal
• Georgian: ჭია (č̣ia) — animal
• German: Wurm — animal
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃 (waurms) — animal
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌰 (maþa) — animal
• Greek: σκουλήκι (skoulíki) — animal
• Ancient Greek: σκώληξ (skṓlēx) — animal
• Ancient Greek: ἕλμινς (hélmins) — animal
• Ancient Greek: ἕλμις (hélmis) — animal
• Mbya Guarani: evo'i — animal
• Haitian Creole: ve — animal
• Hausa: tsūtsā̀ — animal
• Hebrew: רִמָּה (rimmâ) — animal
• Hebrew: תּוֹלַעַת (tolá'at) — animal
• Higaonon: olod — animal
• Hindi: कीड़ा (kīṛā) — animal
• Hindi: पोका (pokā) — animal
• Hindi: किर्म (kirm) — animal
• Hungarian: kukac — animal
• Hungarian: féreg — animal
• Hungarian: giliszta — animal
• Hungarian: hernyó — animal
• Hunsrik: Worrem — animal
• Icelandic: maðkur — animal
• Icelandic: ormur — animal
• Indonesian: cacing — animal
• Ingush: нӏана (nˀana) — animal
• Interlingua: verme — animal
• Irish: péist — animal
• Irish: cruimh — animal
• Irish: cuideog — animal
• Old Irish: cruim — animal
• Italian: verme — animal
• Japanese: 蚯蚓 (mimizu) — animal
• Japanese: 蠕虫 (zenchū) — animal
• Japanese: ワーム (wāmu) — animal
• Javanese: cacing — animal
• Kannada: ಹುಳು (huḷu) — animal
• Karachay-Balkar: къурт (qurt) — animal
• Kazakh: құрт (qūrt) — animal
• Khmer: ដង្កូវ (dɑɑdɑngkəw) — animal
• Kongo: muntudia — animal
• Korean: 벌레 (beolle) — animal
• Kryts: çiç — animal
• Kumyk: хурт (xurt) — animal
• Central Kurdish: کرم (kirm) — animal
• Northern Kurdish: kirm — animal
• Northern Kurdish: kurm — animal
• Kyrgyz: курт (kurt) — animal
• Ladino: guzano — animal
• Lao: ຂີ້ກະເດືອນ (khī ka dư̄an) — animal
• Lao: ຫນອນ (nǭn) — animal
• Latgalian: tuorps — animal
• Latgalian: tuorpeņš — animal
• Latin: vermis — animal
• Latvian: tārps — animal
• Laz: წიწი (ǯiǯi) — animal
• Lingala: monkusu — animal
• Lithuanian: kirmėlė — animal
• Low German: Worm — animal
• Low German: Worm — animal
• Lushootseed: sʔuləč̓ — animal
• Luxembourgish: Mued — animal
• Luxembourgish: Wuerm — animal
• Macedonian: црв (crv) — animal
• Malagasy: kankana — animal
• Malay: cacing — animal
• Brunei Malay: cacing — animal
• Malayalam: പുഴു (puḻu) — animal
• Maltese: dudu — animal
• Mangghuer: zhuolian khuerghai — animal
• Mansaka: orod — animal
• Manx: beishteig — animal
• Māori: noke — animal
• Māori: toke — animal
• Mapudungun: piru — animal
• Maranao: oled — animal
• Mazanderani: اجیک (ajik) — animal
• Mohegan-Pequot: ohq — animal
• Mongghul: huarighii — animal
• Mongolian: өт (öt) — animal
• Mongolian: хорхой (xorxoj) — animal
• Nahuatl: ocuilin — animal
• Navajo: chʼosh — animal
• Neapolitan: vierme — animal
• Nivkh: ӽар̌ (ẋař) — animal
• Nivkh: чхевр̌ (ț’xevř) — animal
• Norman: vèr — animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: mark — animal
• Norwegian Bokmål: orm — animal
• Occitan: vèrm — animal
• Odia: କୃମି (krumi) — animal
• Ojibwe: moose — animal
• Church Slavic: чрьвь (črĭvĭ) — animal
• Church Slavic: глиста (glista) — animal
• Church Slavic: ⱍⱃⱐⰲⱐ (črĭvĭ) — animal
• Old English: wyrm — animal
• Oromo: rammoo — animal
• Ossetian: калм (kalm) — animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: хробак (xrobak) — animal
• Pannonian Rusyn: хлїста (xljista) — animal
• Pashto: چومجى (čumjáy) — animal
• Pashto: چينجى (činjáy) — animal
• Dari: کِرْم (kirm) — animal
• Iranian Persian: کِرْم (kerm) — animal
• Piedmontese: verm — animal
• Pipil: kwilin — animal
• Plautdietsch: Worm (nds) — animal
• Polabian: modĕk — animal
• Polabian: godĕk — animal
• Polish: robak — animal
• Polish: czerw — animal
• Portuguese: minhoca — animal
• Portuguese: verme — animal
• Punjabi: ਸੁੰਡੀ (suṇḍī) — animal
• Quechua: kuru — animal
• Romani: kirmo — animal
• Romanian: vierme — animal
• Romanian: râmă — animal
• Romansh: verm — animal
• Romansh: vierm — animal
• Romansh: vearm — animal
• Russian: червь (červʹ) — animal
• Russian: червя́к (červják) — animal
• Russian: глист (helminth) — animal
• Sanskrit: कृमि (kṛmi) — animal
• Sardinian: belme — animal
• Sardinian: solde — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: baoiteag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: biastag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: boiteag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: brùiteag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: brutag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: cnuimh — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: daolag — animal
• Scottish Gaelic: durrag — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: цр̑в — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: гли́ста — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: cȓv — animal
• Serbo-Croatian: glísta — animal
• Sherpa: འབུ ('bu) — animal
• Sicilian: vemmu — animal
• Sinhalese: පණු (paṇu) — animal
• Slovak: červ — animal
• Slovene: črv — animal
• Lower Sorbian: wužeńc — animal
• Lower Sorbian: cerw — animal
• Upper Sorbian: čerw — animal
• Sotho: seboko — animal
• Spanish: gusano — animal
• Spanish: lombriz — animal
• Sranan Tongo: woron — animal
• Sundanese: cacing — animal
• Swahili: funza class ji/ma — animal
• Swedish: mask — animal
• Tajik: кирм (kirm) — animal
• Tamil: புழு (puḻu) — animal
• Taos: pʼȍwàyaʼána — animal
• Tarantino: vijèrme — animal
• Tariana: hení-si — animal
• Tatar: суалчан (suwalçan) — animal
• Tausug: ud — animal
• Telugu: పురుగు (purugu) — animal
• Tetum: ular — animal
• Thai: หนอน (nɔ̌ɔn) — animal
• Tibetan: འབུ ('bu) — animal
• Tibetan: སྲིན (srin) — animal
• Tibetan: སྲིན་བུ (srin bu) — animal
• Tigrinya: ሓሰኻ (ḥasäxa) — animal
• Tlingit: tl'úk'x — animal
• Tocharian B: yel — animal
• Tooro: omuniongorozi class 3 — animal
• Turkish: kurt — animal
• Turkish: solucan — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: قورت (kurt) — animal
• Ottoman Turkish: صوغلجان (soğulcan) — animal
• Turkmen: gurçuk — animal
• Turkmen: möjek — animal
• Udmurt: нумыр (numyr) — animal
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎍𐎓 (tlʿ) — animal
• Ukrainian: черв'я́к (červʺják) — animal
• Ukrainian: черв (červ) — animal
• Ukrainian: хроба́к (xrobák) — animal
• Unami: hupèxkw — animal
• Urdu: کِیڑا (kīṛā) — animal
• Urdu: پوکا (pokā) — animal
• Urdu: کِرْم (kirm) — animal
• Uyghur: قۇرت (qurt) — animal
• Uzbek: qurt — animal
• Venetan: vèrmen — animal
• Venetan: vèrme — animal
• Venetan: budèl — animal
• Venetan: bigat — animal
• Vietnamese: giun — animal
• Vietnamese: trùn — animal
• Vilamovian: wüm — animal
• Volapük: vum — animal
• Volapük: vumem — animal
• Welsh: abwydyn — animal
• Welsh: mwydyn — animal
• Welsh: pryf genwair — animal
• Welsh: (intestinal) llyngyren — animal
• Yakut: үөн (üön) — animal
• Yiddish: וואָרעם (vorem) — animal
• Yucatec Maya: nook'ol — animal
• Northern Yukaghir: көдьэ (köd̦e) — animal
• Zealandic: wurm — animal
• Zulu: isibungu — animal
• Arabic: شَخْص دَنِيء (šaḵṣ danīʔ) — contemptible being
• Armenian: ճիճու (čiču) — contemptible being
• Armenian: ոչնչություն (očʻnčʻutʻyun) — contemptible being
• Bulgarian: него́дник (negódnik) — contemptible being
• Bulgarian: жа́лко същество́ (žálko sǎštestvó) — contemptible being
• Czech: červ — contemptible being
• Dutch: worm — contemptible being
• Dutch: mormel — contemptible being
• Finnish: luihu — contemptible being
• French: vermine — contemptible being
• French: scarabée — contemptible being
• German: elender Wurm — contemptible being
• Greek: σκουλήκι (skoulíki) — contemptible being
• Hebrew: נִבְזֶה (nivzé) — contemptible being
• Hungarian: féreg — contemptible being
• Hungarian: hitvány alak — contemptible being
• Irish: péist — contemptible being
• Irish: péisteog — contemptible being
• Italian: miserabile — contemptible being
• Kannada: ಹುಳು (huḷu) — contemptible being
• Korean: 버러지 (beoreoji) — contemptible being
• Korean: 짐승 (jimseung) — contemptible being
• Norwegian Bokmål: orm — contemptible being
• Occitan: vèrm — contemptible being
• Portuguese: miserável — contemptible being
• Portuguese: patife — contemptible being
• Portuguese: verme — contemptible being
• Romanian: vierme — contemptible being
• Russian: сте́рва (stérva) — contemptible being
• Russian: негодя́й (negodjáj) — contemptible being
• Russian: негодя́йка (negodjájka) — contemptible being
• Serbo-Croatian: цр̑в — contemptible being
• Serbo-Croatian: cȓv — contemptible being
• Sicilian: mischinu — contemptible being
• Spanish: gusano — contemptible being
• Spanish: alimaña — contemptible being
• Spanish: rata — contemptible being
• Spanish: cucaracha — contemptible being
• Swedish: stackare — contemptible being
• Swedish: kräk — contemptible being
• Ukrainian: негідник (nehidnyk) — contemptible being
• Armenian: որդ ծրագիր (ord cragir) — self-replicating program
• Chinese Mandarin: 蠕蟲 /蠕虫 (rúchóng) — self-replicating program
• Czech: červ — self-replicating program
• Danish: orm — self-replicating program
• Dutch: worm — self-replicating program
• Finnish: mato — self-replicating program
• French: ver — self-replicating program
• Georgian: ჭია (č̣ia) — self-replicating program
• Georgian: ჭია-ვირუსი (č̣ia-virusi) — self-replicating program
• German: Wurm — self-replicating program
• Greek: σκουλήκι (skoulíki) — self-replicating program
• Hungarian: féreg — self-replicating program
• Italian: verme — self-replicating program
• Low German: Worm — self-replicating program
• Norwegian Bokmål: orm — self-replicating program
• Polish: robak — self-replicating program
• Portuguese: worm — self-replicating program
• Romanian: vierme — self-replicating program
• Russian: червь (červʹ) — self-replicating program
• Serbo-Croatian: цр̑в — self-replicating program
• Serbo-Croatian: cȓv — self-replicating program
• Slovene: črv — self-replicating program
• Spanish: gusano informático — self-replicating program
• Swedish: mask — self-replicating program
• Swedish: nätmask — self-replicating program
• Bulgarian: шнек (šnek) — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Czech: závit — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Dutch: draad — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Dutch: schroef — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Finnish: jengat — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Finnish: kierre — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• French: vis sans fin — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• German: Gewinde — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Hungarian: csavarmenet — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Low German: Gewinn — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Spanish: guirnalda — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Spanish: filete — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Spanish: rosca — something helical, especially the thread of a screw
• Bulgarian: драко́н (drakón) — dragon or mythological serpent
• Danish: orm — dragon or mythological serpent
• Danish: drage — dragon or mythological serpent
• Finnish: käärme — dragon or mythological serpent
• French: dragon — dragon or mythological serpent
• German: Lindwurm — dragon or mythological serpent
• Italian: drago — dragon or mythological serpent
• Norwegian Bokmål: orm — dragon or mythological serpent
• Polish: smok — dragon or mythological serpent
• Portuguese: serpe — dragon or mythological serpent
• Romanian: balaur — dragon or mythological serpent
• Russian: змей (zmej) — dragon or mythological serpent
• Russian: змея́ (zmejá) — dragon or mythological serpent
• Russian: драко́н (drakón) — dragon or mythological serpent
• Swedish: orm — dragon or mythological serpent
• Swedish: drake — dragon or mythological serpent
• French: remords — internal tormentor
• Romanian: șarpe — internal tormentor
• Bulgarian: провирам се (proviram se) — to make one's way with a crawling motion
• Danish: kravle — to make one's way with a crawling motion
• Esperanto: serpentumi — to make one's way with a crawling motion
• French: ramper — to make one's way with a crawling motion
• Hungarian: kúszik — to make one's way with a crawling motion
• Danish: krybe — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Danish: kravle — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Danish: åle — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Dutch: zich wurmen — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Finnish: madella — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• French: ramper — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Norwegian: krype — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Norwegian: kravle — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Norwegian: åle — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Portuguese: rastejar — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Romanian: târî — to move with one's body dragging the ground
• Danish: orme sig — to get (into) gradually or slowly
• Dutch: zich wurmen — to get (into) gradually or slowly
• French: infiltrer — to get (into) gradually or slowly
• French: s'insinuer — to get (into) gradually or slowly
• French: tirer les vers du nez — to get information that someone is reluctant to give
• German: einem alles aus der Nase ziehen — to get information that someone is reluctant to give
• German: etwas aus der Nase ziehen — to get information that someone is reluctant to give
• German: Würmer aus der Nase ziehen — to get information that someone is reluctant to give
• French: vermifuger — to cure of intestinal worms
• Hungarian: féregtelenít — to cure of intestinal worms
• Spanish: desparasitar — to cure of intestinal worms
• Danish: orme sig — to work one's way by artful or devious means
• Dutch: zich wurmen — to work one's way by artful or devious means