lilac
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Arabic ليلك (līlak), from Persian نیلک (nilak), from نیل (nil, “dark blue”), ultimately from Sanskrit नीला (“dark blue”)[1]
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Noun [edit]
lilac (plural lilacs)
- A large shrub of the genus Syringa, bearing white, pale pink or purple flowers.
- Lilac flowers.
- 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 5, The Younger Set[1]:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume ; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of rose-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees ; … .
- 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 5, The Younger Set[1]:
- (colour) A pale purple colour, the colour of some lilac flowers.
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lilac colour:
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shrub
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flower
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colour
Adjective [edit]
lilac (comparative more lilac, superlative most lilac)
- (colour) having a pale purple colour.
Translations [edit]
colour
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- ^ Skeat, A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1895