ladybird

Etymology
From, the “lady” here referring to the Virgin Mary, Jesus’ mother. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the  family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.
 * 2) * 1914, Entomological Society of America, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 7, |%22ladybirds%22|%22lady+bird|birds%22+-intitle:%22ladybird|ladybirds%22+-inauthor:%22ladybird%22&dq=%22ladybird%22|%22ladybirds%22|%22lady+bird|birds%22+-intitle:%22ladybird|ladybirds%22+-inauthor:%22ladybird%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SvybT7v3NumsiAf61bTYDg&redir_esc=y page 81,
 * During this time, they eat about 825 Toxoptera per ladybird, making an average of about twenty-five per day to each ladybird.
 * 1) * 1927, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, and William Byron Forbush (editors), Childhood′s Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1, Gutenberg eBook #19993,
 * Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, / Thy house is on fire, thy children all gone: / All but one whose name is Ann, / And she crept under the pudding-pan.
 * 1) * 1976 September 30, Denis Owen, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, New Scientist, |%22ladybirds%22|%22lady+bird|birds%22+-intitle:%22ladybird|ladybirds%22+-inauthor:%22ladybird%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=COWbT5PGG6eXiQeD2tCqDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ladybird%22|%22ladybirds%22|%22lady%20bird|birds%22%20-intitle%3A%22ladybird|ladybirds%22%20-inauthor%3A%22ladybird%22&f=false page 686,
 * Ladybirds, unlike most beetles, enjoy considerable popularity: they are attractive to look at and are well-known as useful predators of aphids—the greenfly and blackfly that destroy garden plants and crops.
 * 1) * 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Springer-Verlag New York, 2nd Edition, |%22ladybirds%22|%22lady+bird|birds%22+-intitle:%22ladybird|ladybirds%22+-inauthor:%22ladybird%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=COWbT5PGG6eXiQeD2tCqDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ladybird%22|%22ladybirds%22|%22lady%20bird|birds%22%20-intitle%3A%22ladybird|ladybirds%22%20-inauthor%3A%22ladybird%22&f=false page 2130,
 * Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ladybird species into North America.
 * Perhaps it was a sense of lack of effectiveness of native ladybirds in rapid and complete control of aphid infestations that led to attempts to import additional aphid-feeding ladybird species into North America.

Usage notes
The term is used in British English, while the alternative  is common in the US and Canada.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: liewenheersbesie, skilpadbesie, skilpadkewer
 * Albanian:, , nuse pashke, , , shtatpikaloshe, pikaloshe
 * Arabic: دُعْسُوقَة
 * Gulf Arabic: اُم عَلِي
 * Hijazi Arabic: دعسوقة
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܛܝܼܒܵܛܘܿ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Abjad: ملا قوشى
 * Roman: parabüzən, xallı bəzək, xanımböcəyi, mollaquşu, uçağan, papıştikən
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: каро́ўка-баго́ўка
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, кали́нка-мали́нка, божа́ кра́вичка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 瓢蟲
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: уяр
 * Crimean Tatar: sırlı böcek
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kokcinelo, mariskarabo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, papasol, reirrei, maruxiña, voaniña
 * Georgian: ჭიამაია
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Mariiechääferli
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: aamanganiaq
 * Hebrew: מושית,
 * Hindi: सोनपाखरा, सोनपंखी, सुररखी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: jumalanlehmä
 * Interlingua: coccinella
 * Irish:, bó shamhraidh, bóín samhraidh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: juaninha
 * Khmer: អណ្ដើកមាស
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: chëifer dla Madona
 * Latvian: mārīte
 * Lithuanian: boružė
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Sünnenküken
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: бубамара, божа кравица
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: nannakola
 * Maori: mumutawa, ngoikura
 * Navajo: chʼosh łitsxooí
 * Norman: paqu'nôte
 * North Frisian: goodshenk
 * Norwegian: marifly,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قفتان بوجكی, خانم بوجكی
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Howapieetje
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬੀਰ ਵਹੁਟੀ
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: bau da Nossadunna
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: daolag bhreac dhearg
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бубамара
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: papuzzedda
 * Slovak: lienka, pánbožkova kravička
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, catarinita , ,  , sarantontón , vaquita de San Antonio
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: marikita
 * Thai: แมลงเต่าทอง,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan: бичии доос-кара
 * Ukrainian:, бо́жа корі́вка
 * Uyghur: خانقىز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, cánh cam
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: leavehearsbistke
 * Yiddish: משה רבינוס קיִעלע, משה רבנוס בהמהלע, משה רבנוס פֿערדעלע
 * Zhuang: nengzgoemj
 * Zulu: umanqulwana