English [edit]
A snowflake (crystal of frozen water)
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Etymology [edit]
snow + flake[1]
Pronunciation [edit]
snowflake (plural snowflakes)
- A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.[1]
- Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.[1]
- The snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis.[1]
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Translations [edit]
crystal
- Albanian: flok bore (sq) m
- Arabic: رقاقة الثلج (ar) (ruqāqat al-ṯalj) f
- Armenian: ձյան փաթիլ (hy) (dzyan p’at’il)
- Basque: elur-maluta (eu)
- Belarusian: сняжынка (be) (snjažýnka) f
- Breton: fulenn erc'h f fulennoù erc'h pl, malzenn erc'h f -où erc'h pl
- Bulgarian: снежинка (bg) (snežínka) f
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 雪花 (cmn) (syut3 faa1)
- Mandarin: 雪花 (cmn) (xuěhuā), 雪片 (cmn) (xuěpiàn)
- Czech: sněhová vločka (cs) f
- Danish: snefnug (da)
- Dutch: sneeuwvlok (nl) f
- Esperanto: neĝero (eo)
- Estonian: lumehelves (et)
- Faroese: flykra (fo) f, kavaflykra (fo) f, snjóflykra (fo) f, flyksingur (fo) m, flyksa (fo) f
- Finnish: lumihiutale (fi)
- French: flocon de neige m
- German: Schneeflocke (de) f
- Greek: νιφάδα (el) (nipháda) f
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: פתית–שלג (he)
- Hindi: हिमकण (hi) (himkaṇ)
- Hungarian: hópehely (hu), hópihe (hu)
- Icelandic: snjókorn (is) n
- Ido: nivofloko (io)
- Interlingua: flocco de neve
- Irish: calóg (ga) f, cáithnín sneachta (ga) m
- Italian: fiocco di neve (it) m
- Japanese: 雪花 (ja) (せっか, sekka), 雪片 (ja) (せっぺん, seppen)
- Khmer: ល្អងព្រិល (km) (lo-orng pril)
- Korean: 눈송이 (ko) (nunsong-i)
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- Lakota: ičháȟota
- Latvian: sniegpārsla (lv) f
- Lithuanian: sniegulė̃ (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Schnéiflack (lb) f
- Macedonian: снегулка (mk) (snégulka) f
- Manx: floag (gv) f, floag niaghtee (gv) f, lhiannag niaghtee (gv) f
- Maori: kapu (mi)
- Mongolian: цасан ширхэг (mn) (tsasan širheg)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: snøfnugg (no)
- Persian: برف دانه (fa) (barf-e dâne)
- Polish: płatek śniegu m
- Portuguese: floco de neve (pt) m
- Romanian: fulg de nea (ro)
- Romansch: (Grischun, Vallader) floc da naiv (rm) m, (Grischun) flocca da naiv (rm) f, (Sursilvan) scrotta da neiv (rm) f, (Sutsilvan) floc da nev (rm) m, (Sutsilvan) scrota da nev (rm) f, (Surmiran) mina da naiv (rm) f, (Surmiran) gnoua da naiv (rm) f, (Puter) flöch da naiv (rm) m, (Puter) pandschè (rm)
- Russian: снежинка (ru) (snežínka) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: снегуља (sh) f, снијегуља (sh) f, снегуљица (sh) f, снијегуљица (sh) f, пахуљица (sh) f
- Roman: snegulja (sh) f, snijegulja (sh) f, sneguljica (sh) f, snijeguljica (sh) f, pahuljica (sh) f
- Slovak: snehové páperie (sk) n, snehová vločka (sk) f
- Slovene: snežínka (sl) f
- Spanish: copo de nieve (es) m, ampo (es) m
- Swedish: snöflinga (sv) c
- Turkish: kar tanesi (tr)
- Ukrainian: сніжинка (uk) (snižýnka) f
- Vietnamese: hoa tuyết (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: pluen eira (cy) f
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “snowflake” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]