blossom, flower (reproductive structure on plants, often scented and/or colourful) · bloom, blossom, florescence (flowering season) · bloom, heyday, height (era of good development, e.g. of a realm or culture)
köken: From Middle High German blüete, from older bluot, from Old High German bluot, from Proto-Germanic *blōdiz (“blossom, sprout”). Middle High German bluot was originally a feminine inflecting to blüete in the plural and genitive/dative singular; later this alternation was levelled either by generalizing the form blüete or by converting bluot into a masculine. Related with blühen and Blume. Cognate…
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants") · flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself · a kind favor given by one person to another
çekim: çoğul fleurs
eş: angiosperme, aide, faveur, service, crème de la crème, élite
köken: Inherited from Old French flur, flour, flor, from Latin flōrem (“flower; the finest part of something”), from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”). In some senses, from Middle French fleur (“surface, upper side, top layer”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“floor”).
aile: à fleur de, à fleur de peau, à la fleur de l’âge, affleurement, affleurer, chou-fleur, comme une fleur, couvrir quelqu’un de fleurs, défleurir, déflorer
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s Proto-Italic *flōs Latin flōs Old Spanish flor Spanish flor Inherited from Old Spanish flor, from Latin flōs (accusative flōrem). The retention of /fl/ is unusual and perhaps reflects some form of conservative tendency.
aile: a flor de agua, a flor de cuño, a flor de piel, a flor de tierra, adiós mis flores, aflorar, andarse en flores, azúcar de flor, azúcar flor, batalla de flores
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (škwpk' /škōfag/, “flower, blossom”), from the verb škōf- (“to blossom”), whence modern شکفتن (šikuftan, “to blossom”).
aile: شکوفه دادن, شکوفه شدن, شکوفه کردن
بستان ز نو شکوفه چو گردون شد تا نسترن به سان ثریا شد
flower · a delicate, feminine woman or girl · surface
çekim: çoğul flores
eş: florezinhas, florinha, florzinha, florzita
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, a learned borrowing from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s, from *bʰleh₃- + *-s. Compare Galician flor, chor.
aile: à flor de, beija-flor, flor da idade, flor de lis, flor de lótus, flor-de-lis, florar, florear, floreiro, florista
1595, Luís Vaz de Camões, Rimas, Num bosque que das Ninfas se habitava
flower (plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood) · flower (stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.) · flower (floral design placed on materials or objects)
çekim: çoğul kwiaty · tamlayan kwiatu
eş: kwiatek, kwiatek, kwiatek, panieński kwiatek
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kwaitas Proto-Slavic *kvě̑tъ Old Polish kwiat Polish kwiat Inherited from Old Polish kwiat.
aile: kwiaciasty, kwiaciaty, kwiatonośny, kwiecisty, kwietny, w kwiecie wieku, dzieci kwiaty, kwiaciarka, kwiaciarz, kwiat lotosu
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀨𑀼𑀮𑁆𑀮 (phulla), from Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla). Cognates include Assamese ফুল (phul), Bengali ফুল (phul), Bhojpuri फूल (phūl), Gujarati ફૂલ (phūl), Maithili फूल (phūl), Marathi फूल (phūl), Nepali फूल (phūl), Odia ଫୁଲ (phula), Punjabi پھل / ਫੁੱਲ (phulla), and Sindhi ڦل (phulu).
köken: Inherited from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”). Doublet of floră.
flower · synonym of szobanövény (“houseplant”) · bloom, blossom, prime, cream (the most beautiful, most valuable, or most powerful part, section, or state of something)
çekim: çoğul virágok
köken: Inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *walke, with the semantic shift of light > radiance, sparkle > flower. For the semantic development, compare Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos). First attested in 1237. Doublet of világ.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *poːŋ (“flower”). Cognate with Muong pông and Thavung โปง. Outside of Vietic, compare Proto-Pearic *Pa(ː)ŋ (Headley, 1985), Proto-Katuic *ʔmpɔɔŋ (“banana blossom”), Kensiu həpuaŋ, Ten'edn hapɔŋ. This word had been tentatively proposed as being connected etymologically with Hmong-Mien (Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ, whence Iu Mien biangh, White Hmong paj) or Austronesian…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *häici, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian žiedas and Latvian zieds. Cognate with Finnish hede, hedelmä, Veps heiditä (“to blossom”), and Votic edʹdʹittsä (“to blossom (mainly used for rye)”).
From Middle Dutch bloesem, bloeseme, (also bloesene), from Old Dutch *bluostmo, from Proto-Germanic *blōstmô. Compare Old English blostma ( > English blossom), Middle Low German blossem, blosem (“blossom”), Middle High German bluost (“blossom”). More at blossom.