Thursday, August 22, 2013

Summary "flower"

Thanks to those who have commented on the Facebook page,
here is a summary of words meaning "flower."


-- FL --

English: flower

French: fleur

Spanish: flor

Portuguese: flor

Morisyen: Fler

Most Occitan: flor [flu], [flur]

Latin: FLOS

-- F --

Italian: fiore

lumbard: fiùr

Lingala: fololo

Awadhi: फूल fool فول

cantonese: Fa

-- HL --

Gascon hlor

Gascon Occitan: hlor [hlu].

-- BL --

Gol: blath

Gaeilge(Irish): Bláth

German: Blume

Dutch: bloem

Afrikaans: Blom

Swedish: Blomma

Norwegian: blomst

Cebuano: bulak

--B --

Khmer: បុប្ផា Bopha

Indonesian: bunga

Vietnamese : bông

Boro: bibar

-- T/TS/C --

sicilian: ciure

Russion цветок

Bulgarian: цвете [tsvete]

Serbian: cvet/цвет [tsvet]

Turkish: çiiçek

Kadazandusun: tusak

Mongolian: цэцэг - [ˈt͡sit͡sɪk]

-- Z --

Arabic: زهرة [zahra]

-- K --

Korean: 꽃 [kot]

Polish: kwiat

Java : kembang

-- L --

Basque lore, lili
("lore" comes from Latin FLOREM)

Modern Greek: λουλούδι [lu'luði]

Estonian: Lill

-- G --

Persian: [gol] گل

Uzbek: Gul

Kyrgyz. Гул [gul]

Kazakh: Gül

Lithuanian: Gele

Tsez: гагали [ga'galɪ]

-- H --

Chinese: 花 [Huā]

Vietnamese : hoa

Japanese: 花 (はな) [hana]

-- P --

Khmer: ផ្កា [Phka]

Hindi and Bhojpuri: फूल [Phool]

Urdu: Phool

Bengali: ফুল [Phool]

sesotho: Palesa

Latvian: Puke

Sanskrit: pushpa

Kerala: poov,

Hindi: pushpak.

Tamil: பூ [Pū]

-- S --

Kapampangan: sampaga

Setswana: Sethunya

Javanese: sekar

Genoese: scjôa ['ʃu:a], plural scjoî ['ʃwi:]

-- V --

Hungarian: virág

malagasy: voninkazo

-- K --

Petya Kundurjieva

Javanese: kembang

Indonesian: kembang

Polish: kwiat

-- M --

Swahili: mauwa

Dhivehi: maa / mau

-- I --

kikuyu: ihua

Kirundi: Ishurwe.

-- A --

Modern Greek: άνθος ['anθos]

Ethiopia Amharic :abeba

-- U --

Somali : ubax

Gilbertese: Ue


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