flower, blossom (colorful, conspicuous reproductive structure(s) of an angiosperm) · plant, houseplant (plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for decorative purposes) · efflorescence (formation of a powdery surface on crystals)
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: Borrowed from Classical Persian گُل (gul, “rose; flower”). Replaced native шешек (şeşek), which is now obsolete. Cognate with Bashkir гөл (göl), Kyrgyz гүл (gül), Uzbek gul, Uyghur گۈل (gül), Turkmen gül (“flower”); Turkish gül (“rose”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *čeček (“flower”). Cognates include Old Turkic [script needed] (čečäk), Tuvan and Southern Altai чечек (čeček), Kazakh шешек (şeşek), Uzbek chechak, Uyghur چېچەك (chëchek), Turkish, Gagauz, Crimean Tatar çiçek, Azerbaijani çiçək. The background of the metathesis *säsäk → säskä that took place in Bashkir remains yet to be explored. One possible reason for it may have been to…
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 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.
Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a lengthened vowel grade of the same root as gel̃tas (“yellow”), but this is semantically dubious due to the diversity of colors of flowers, as well as the exact derivational morphology being unclear. That said, the color yellow tends to evoke connotations of shining and blooming in various languages, as Buck notes, so the semantic connection is not too weak.