dahlia

See also: Dahlia

English

Wikispecies

A dahlia flower

Etymology

Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːlɪə/, /ˈdeɪlɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːliə, -eɪliə

Noun

dahlia (plural dahlias)

1. Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Translations

any plant of the genus Dahlia

• Arabic: دَالِيَّا m (dāliyyā)
• Armenian: գեորգենի (hy) (georgeni), գեորգին (georgin)
• Bengali: ডালিয়া (bn) (ḍaliẏa)
• Bulgarian: далия (bg) f (dalija), гергина f (gergina)
• Burmese: ဒေလီယာ (my) (deliya)
• Catalan: dàlia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大麗花／大丽花 (zh) (dàlìhuā), 大丽花 (zh) (dàlìhuā), 大理花 (zh) (dàlǐhuā), 天竺牡丹 (zh) (tiānzhú mǔdān)

• Czech: jiřina (cs) f
• Danish: georgine c, dahlia c
• Dutch: dahlia (nl) f
• Esperanto: dalio
• Estonian: daalia (et)
• Faroese: georgina f
• Finnish: daalia (fi)
• French: dahlia (fr) m
• German: Dahlie (de) f
• Greek: ντάλια (el) f (ntália)
• Hawaiian: waiohinu
• Hungarian: dália (hu)
• Icelandic: dalía f, glitfífill m
• Ido: dalio (io), dahlia (io)
• Indonesian: dahlia (id)
• Irish: dáilia f
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• Italian: dalia (it) f
• Japanese: ダリア (daria), 天竺牡丹 (てんじくぼたん, tenjikubotan)
• Kazakh: нарғызгүл (narğyzgül)
• Lithuanian: jurginas m
• Macedonian: георгина f (georgina)
• Maori: teiria
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: georgine, dahlia

  Nynorsk: georgine, dahlia

• Polish: dalia (pl), georginia (pl) f
• Portuguese: dália (pt) f
• Romanian: dalie (ro) f, gherghină (ro) f
• Russian: георги́н (ru) m (georgín)
• Samogitian: jorgėns m
• Slovak: georgína f
• Slovene: dalija (sl) f
• Spanish: dalia (es) f
• Swedish: dahlia (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalya
• Tajik: гули кавкаб (gul-i kavkab), кавкаб (kavkab)
• Thai: รักเร่ (th) (rák-rêe)
• Urdu: ڈہلیا (ḍahliyā)
• Vietnamese: thược dược (vi)
• Volapük: daliad (vo)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dahlia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Dahlia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.liˌaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dah‧lia

Noun

dahlia f (plural dahlia's, diminutive dahliaatje n)

1. dahlia, plant of the genus Dahlia

Derived terms

• dahliaknol
• zeedahlia

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French

un dahlia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.lja/

Noun

dahlia m (plural dahlias)

1. dahlia, plant of the genus Dahlia

Further reading

• “dahlia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdahlia̯]
• Hyphenation: dah‧lia
• Rhymes: -lia̯, -ia̯, -a

Noun

dahlia (plural dahlia-dahlia, first-person possessive dahliaku, second-person possessive dahliamu, third-person possessive dahlianya)

1. dahlia

Further reading

• “dahlia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.