silk

Etymology
From, , , , from , ,. The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, obsolete 🇨🇬), all ultimately from, from , ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. 🇨🇬). Compare. .

Noun

 * 1)  A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
 * 2) A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
 * 3) Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.
 * 4) The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
 * 5)  A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
 * 6)  A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
 * 7)  The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
 * 1)  A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
 * 2)  A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
 * 3)  The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.

Translations

 * Arabic: حَرِير
 * Egyptian Arabic: حرير
 * Hijazi Arabic: حرير
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: mãtase
 * Assamese: ৰেচম
 * Asturian: seda
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Banjarese: lalamas
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: шоўк, ядва́б
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: seterak
 * Chakma:
 * Chechen: чилла
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: сыщян (絲線)
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ϣⲉⲛⲥ
 * Cornish: owrlin
 * Corsican: seta
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: saita
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ފަށުި
 * Dutch: (from silk worm);,  (from spider)
 * Esperanto: silko
 * Estonian: siid
 * Faroese: silki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: sede
 * Galician:, serda
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: રેશમ
 * Hausa: tsamiya
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: šulkku
 * Interlingua: seta
 * Irish: síoda, seiric
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاوریشم
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: sēricum, bombȳx
 * Latvian: zīds
 * Lithuanian: šilkas
 * Lü: ᦺᦖ, ᦶᦣ
 * Luxembourgish: Seid
 * Macedonian: свила
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᠰᡳᡵᡤᡝ
 * Manx: sheeidey
 * Mirandese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: торгон утас
 * Ngazidja Comorian: hariri
 * North Frisian: siisen
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: silke
 * Nynorsk: silke
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old East Slavic: шьлкъ
 * Oromo: hariira
 * Ossetian: цыллӕ
 * Ottoman Turkish: ایپك, ابرشیم, حریر, قز
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya: recóm
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: saida, seida, seda
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: sėlks
 * Sardinian: seda, sera, seta
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìoda
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сви́ла
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: hodváb
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Southern Altai: торко, јибек
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: sutra
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, ҳарир
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དར
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüpek
 * Udi: абришӀум
 * Ukrainian: шовк,
 * Urdu: ریشم
 * Uyghur: يىپەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, chỉ tơ
 * Vilamovian: zajd
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: sida
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: זײַד


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حَرِير
 * Egyptian Arabic: حرير
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: mãtase
 * Asturian: seda
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: шоўк, ядва́б
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 絲, 絲綢
 * Dungan: сычу (絲綢)
 * Eastern Min: 絲綢
 * Hakka: 絲綢
 * Hokkien: 絲, 絲綢
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Northern Min: 絲綢
 * Wu: 絲綢
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: saita
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, zijdedoek
 * Estonian: siid
 * Faroese: silki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: sede
 * Galician:, serda
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μέταξα, σηρικόν
 * Hawaiian: lole paheʻe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, hit
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: šulkku
 * Irish: síoda, éadach síoda
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 絹地
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاوریشم
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: sēricum, bombȳx
 * Latvian: zīds
 * Lithuanian: šilkas
 * Livonian: zīḑõz
 * Macedonian: свила
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ħarir
 * Maori: hiraka
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Nanai: гокси, сэурэ
 * Navajo: naakʼaʼatʼą́hí disǫsígíí
 * Nivkh: чарб
 * Northern Sami: silki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: silke
 * Nynorsk: silke
 * Occitan:
 * Old East Slavic: шьлкъ
 * Old Norse: silki
 * Persian:, , , , , , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Sied
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: saida, seida, seda
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: seda, sera, seta
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìoda, sròl
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сви́ла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hodváb
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: торко, јибек
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, seda
 * Tajik:, шоҳӣ
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: sédoną
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýüpek
 * Udi: абришӀум
 * Ukrainian: шовк,
 * Urdu: ریشم
 * Uyghur: يىپەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: vải lụa,, tơ lụa,
 * Yiddish: זײַד
 * Zhuang: seicouz, couz

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the silk from (corn).

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  profession, corps, cadre
 * 2) social class, social stratum