water lily

See also: waterlily

English

Alternative forms

• water-lily
• waterlily

Pronunciation

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Noun

water lily (plural water lilies)

1. Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
2. Species of genus Nymphoides, the fringed water lily and similar plants.
3. Species of genus Nelumbo.

Translations

Any members of Nymphaeaceae

• Armenian: նունուֆար (hy) (nunufar)
• Bashkir: томбойоҡ (tomboyoq)
• Basque: nenufar
• Belarusian: гарлачык m (harlačyk), вадзяная лілея f (vadzjanaja liljeja)
• Burmese: ကြာ (my) (kra)
• Catalan: nenúfar m, nimfea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡蓮／睡莲 (zh) (shuìlián)

• Crimean Tatar: nilüfer
• Czech: leknín (cs) m
• Dutch: waterlelie (nl) f
• Esperanto: akvolilio, nimfeo
• Finnish: lummekasvi (fi), lumme (fi)
• French: nénufar (fr) m, nénuphar (fr) m
• Galician: nenúfar (gl) m, tapadeira f
• German: Seerose (de) f
• Greek: νούφαρο (el) n (noúfaro)

  Ancient: λωτός m (lōtós)

• Hausa: bado (ha)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנַּת מַיִם (he) f (shoshanát máyim)
• Hungarian: tündérrózsa (hu)
• Indonesian: bunga teratai
• Ingrian: vesikukka
• Irish: bior-rós m, bual-lile f, duilleog bháite f (leaf)
• Italian: ninfea (it) f, giglio d'acqua (it) m
• Japanese: スイレン (ja) (suiren), 睡蓮 (ja) (すいれん, suiren)
• Khmer: លំចង់ (km) (lumcɑng), ព្រលឹត (km) (prɔlɨt)
• Korean: 수련(睡蓮) (ko) (suryeon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nîlûfer (ku)

• Lao: ດອກບົວຂີ້ແບ້ (dǭk būa khī bǣ)
• Malayalam: ആമ്പൽ (ml) (āmpal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannlilje m or f, vasslilje m or f, nøkkerose m or f

  Nynorsk: vasslilje f, nykkerose f

• Persian: نیلوفر آبی (fa) (nilufar-e âbi)
• Polish: nenufar (pl) m, grzybień m, lilia wodna (pl) f
• Portuguese: nenúfar (pt) m, ninfeia (pt) f, vitória-régia (pt)
• Romanian: nufăr (ro) m, nenufar (ro) m
• Russian: кувши́нка (ru) f (kuvšínka), ненюфа́р (nenjufár)
• Serbo-Croatian: локвањ m / lokvanj (sh) m, лопоч m / lopoč (sh) m
• Spanish: nenúfar m, ninfea f
• Swahili: yungiyungi (sw)
• Swedish: näckros (sv) c
• Thai: บัว (th) (buua), บัวสาย (buua-sǎai)
• Translingual: Nymphaeaceae
• Turkish: nilüfer (tr), aksu gülü
• Ukrainian: лата́ття (uk) n (latáttja)
• Vietnamese: súng (vi)
• Volapük: nufar
• Welsh: lili'r dŵr f, alaw (cy) f (literary)
• Yucatec Maya: nikteʼ jaʼ