Job's tears

English

Job's tears

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒəʊbz.tɪə(ɹ)z/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Job's tears pl (plural only)

1. A tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the species Coix lacryma-jobi (family Poaceae), native to southeast Asia.

   Synonyms: adlay, adlay millet, coix seed, gromwell grass, tear grass

Translations

Coix lacryma-jobi

• Arabic: دَمْع أَيُّوب m (damʕ ʔayyūb)
• Burmese: ကျိတ်ပင် (kyitpang)
• Catalan: llàgrimes de Job f pl
• Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎤᏂᏥ (selu unitsi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薏苡 (zh) (yìyǐ)

• Fijian: sila
• Finnish: jobinkyynelheinä
• German: Hiobsträne f, Hiobstränengras
• Hawaiian: pūʻoheʻohe, ʻoheʻohe
• Japanese: 数珠玉 (ja) (juzudama), 薏苡 (ja) (yokui)
• Khmer: ស្កួយ (km) (skuəy)
• Korean: 염주(念珠) (yeomju), 율무 (yulmu)
• Malay: jelai (ms), enjelai
• Māori: tangatanga
• Maranao: delay
• Mizo: mîm
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: lǖnyàk

• Persian: اشک روباه (ašk rubâh), شال تسبیح (šâl tasbih)
• Polish: łzawnica ogrodowa f
• Russian: бу́сенник обыкнове́нный m (búsennik obyknovénnyj), ио́влевы слёзы f pl (ióvlevy sljózy)
• Samoan: sanasana, sagasaga
• Tagalog: abukay
• Tahitian: poepoe
• Thai: เดือย (th) (dʉai)
• Tongan: hana
• Ukrainian: бусеннік звичайний m (busennik zvyčajnyj), сльо́зи Іова f pl (slʹózy Iova)
• Vietnamese: bo bo (vi), ý dĩ (vi), cườm thảo

References

• “Job's tears”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Job's tears on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coix lacryma-jobi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Coix lacryma-jobi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons