take root

English

Verb

take root (third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root)

1. (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.

   Those tulip bulbs have taken root.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.

   The new regulations have yet to take root.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.

Translations

to grow roots into soil

• Catalan: arrelar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生根 (zh) (shēnggēn)

• Finnish: juurtua (fi)
• French: prendre racine (fr), raciner (fr)
• Galician: enraizar (gl)
• Greek: ριζοβολώ (el) (rizovoló), ριζώνω (el) (rizóno)
• Japanese: 根付く (ja) (ねづく, nezuku)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: rādīcō
• Polish: zakorzeniać się impf, zakorzenić się
• Portuguese: enraizar (pt), deitar raízes, fixar raízes
• Romanian: înrădăcina (ro)
• Russian: принима́ться (ru) impf (prinimátʹsja), приня́ться (ru) pf (prinjátʹsja), пуска́ть ко́рни impf (puskátʹ kórni), пусти́ть ко́рни pf (pustítʹ kórni)
• Spanish: radicar (es), echar raíces (es), arraigar (es)
• Vietnamese: mọc rễ
• Volapük: vulikön (vo)

to become established, to take hold

• Catalan: arrelar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生根 (zh) (shēnggēn)

• Finnish: vakiintua (fi)
• French: s’enraciner (fr)
• Galician: arraigar (gl)
• German: Wurzeln schlagen
• Greek: ριζοβολώ (el) (rizovoló)
• Japanese: 根付く (ja) (ねづく, nezuku)
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: rarau
• Polish: zakorzeniać się impf, zakorzenić się pf
• Portuguese: criar raízes, radicar (pronominal)
• Russian: укореня́ться (ru) impf (ukorenjátʹsja), укорени́ться (ru) pf (ukorenítʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: укорије́нити

  Roman: ukorijéniti (sh)

• Spanish: radicar (es)