agave

See also: Agave, agáve, and agavé

English

Agave americana 'Medio-picta'

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɑːveɪ/ or IPA^(key): /əˈɡeɪviː/
• Rhymes: -eɪvi

Noun

agave (plural agaves)

1. A plant of the genus Agave, which includes the maguey or century plant. Attaining maturity, it produces a gigantic flower stem.

Translations

genus

• Armenian: ագավա (hy) (agava)
• Bulgarian: агаве (agave), столетник (stoletnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍舌蘭 (zh), 龙舌兰 (zh) (lóngshélán)

• Czech: agáve (cs) f
• Esperanto: agavo
• Finnish: agaave (fi)
• Galician: agave
• German: Agave (de) f
• Hungarian: agávé (hu)
• Icelandic: þyrnililjuætt f, eyðimerkurliljuætt f
• Ido: agavo (io)
• Irish: agáibhe f
• Italian: agave (it) f

• Nahuatl: metl (nah)
• Navajo: noodah
• Polish: agawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: agave (pt) m
• Quechua: qara
• Romanian: agavă (ro) f
• Russian: ага́ва (ru) f (agáva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агава f

  Roman: agava (sh) f

• Slovak: agáva (sk) f
• Spanish: maguey (es) m, agave (es) f, pita (es) f
• Ukrainian: агава (uk) f (ahava)

Further reading

• Agave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Agave on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agave on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• agave at USDA Plants database
• aloe
• maguey

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Danish

Noun

agave c (singular definite agaven, plural indefinite agaver)

1. agave

Declension

Declension of agave

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	agave	agaven	agaver	agaverne
genitive	agaves	agavens	agavers	agavernes

Further reading

• “agave” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡav/

Noun

agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave

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Italian

Noun

agave f

1. agave

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Portuguese

Noun

agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave (plant of the genus Agave)

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Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin Agave, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ), name of one of the daughters of Cadmus, from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡabe/, [aˈɣaβe]

Noun

agave m (plural agaves)

1. agave

Synonyms

• pita

See also

• maguey
• mezcal

Further reading

• “agave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.