caterpillar

Etymology
From, , probably from (Modern French  + ), from  +. The sense "rapacious, extortionate person" arose by association with obsolete.

Noun

 * 1) The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
 * 2) A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
 * 3)  A set of subtrees of a tree.
 * 4)  A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.
 * 1)  A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.

Translations

 * Adyghe: пкӏэшъэхъу
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: zek,
 * Arabic: يَرَقَة, دُودَة الْفَرَاشَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: يَرَقَة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পলু, বিছা
 * Aymara:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese: hulat
 * Basque: har, beldar
 * Belarusian: ву́сень
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: ulat bulu, giuk bulu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: til-as
 * Cherokee: ᏍᎪᏯ ᎠᏁᏍᎩᎸᎥᏍᎩ
 * Chichewa: mbozi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 毛毛蟲, 毛蟲
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuukese: muun
 * Chuvash: лӗпӗш хурчӗ
 * Classical Syriac: ܡܫܘܛܐ
 * Cornish: pryv del, kath vlewek
 * Czech:
 * Danish: larve, kålorm
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, röövik
 * Faroese: ormvera
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ruie
 * Galician:, burgo
 * Georgian: მუხლუხი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάμπη
 * Gujarati: ઇયળ
 * Haitian Creole: chini
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ulat bulu,
 * Ingrian: puutoukka
 * Irish: bolb
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Jarai: hlăt
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: жұлдызқұрт, қырықбуын
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kikuyu: kĩgunyũ, kĩgunyarĩrĩ
 * Korean: 모충(毛蟲),
 * Kyrgyz: көпөлөк курту
 * Lak: янначчуччу
 * Lao: ໂຕດ້ວງ, ຕົວບົ້ງ, ບຸ້ງ, ດ້ວງ
 * Latin: ērūca, ūrīca, campē, dolba
 * Latvian: kāpurs
 * Limburgish:
 * Lingala: mombínzó
 * Lithuanian: vikšras
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: Riepse
 * Luxembourgish: Raup
 * Macedonian: гасеница
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: beluncas
 * Malayalam:, ശലഭപ്പുഴു
 * Maltese: xagħat
 * Manchu: ᠯᡠᡴᡠ
 * Manx: braddag
 * Maori: torongū, tōtorongū, whē, mokamoka, torongū
 * Marathi: अळी
 * Mi'kmaq: engejit
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: төөлүүр хорхой, жаран хөлт
 * Navajo: wódítłʼooí, chʼosh ditłʼooí, wóshiiyishí
 * Norman: carpéleuse,  catte,  carpélouose,  katpwölör
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: trēowwyrm
 * Ottoman Turkish: طرتیل
 * Persian: کرم صدپا
 * Picard: carplute
 * Plautdietsch: Krupa
 * Polish:, licha,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ,
 * Quechua: sika, kuru
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: rasulauna
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: သံ
 * Sardinian: ruga
 * Scots: oobit
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гу̏сеница, гу̏сјеница
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, papici
 * Slovak: husenica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: fjärilslarv, mallarv
 * Tajik: кирмак
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: หนอนผีเสื้อ,, ,
 * Tibetan: འབུ་སྤུ་ཟོག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gurçuk
 * Udi: тыртыр
 * Ukrainian: гу́сениця, гу́сінь
 * Urdu: سنڈی, پوکا
 * Uyghur: تۈكلۈك قۇرت
 * Uzbek:, kapalak qurti
 * Vietnamese:, , sâu bướm
 * Vilamovian: raojp
 * Volapük:, jönulil
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: lindysyn, Siani flewog
 * Yiddish: שלייערל,
 * Yoruba: wùkúwùkú
 * Zazaki: kermık


 * Bulgarian: вери́жен автомоби́л
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 履帶式車輛
 * Esperanto: ĉenbendo,
 * Finnish: telaketjutraktori, katepillari
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ερπυστριοφόρος ελκυστήρας
 * Hungarian: hernyótalpas traktor, lánctalpas jármű
 * Japanese: キャタピラ, 無限軌道
 * Macedonian: гасеничар
 * Polish: pojazd gąsienicowy
 * Portuguese: veículo com lagartas
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: гу́сеничный тра́ктор
 * Spanish:, tractor de oruga
 * Swahili: katapila
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Yoruba: katakata


 * Swahili: (nc 7/8)

Verb

 * 1)  To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.

Noun

 * 1) A vehicle with caterpillar track