bouquet

See also: Bouquet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊˈkeɪ/, /buˈkeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. A bunch of cut flowers.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

3. A compliment or expression of praise.

   Often used in the phrase brickbats and bouquets. See also brickbat.

4. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
5. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
6. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

Derived terms

• bouquet of circles, bouquet of spheres

Translations

bunch of flowers

• Arabic: بَاقَة‎‎ f (bāqa)
• Armenian: ծաղկեփունջ (hy) (całkepʿunǰ)
• Belarusian: буке́т m (bukjét)
• Bulgarian: буке́т (bg) m (bukét)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花束 (zh) (huāshù)

• Czech: kytice (cs) f, pugét m
• Danish: buket (da) c
• Dutch: bouquet (nl) m, ruiker (nl) m, bos (nl) m
• Esperanto: bukedo (eo)
• Faroese: blómutyssi n
• Finnish: kukkakimppu (fi)
• French: bouquet (fr)
• German: Blumenstrauß (de) m, Bouquet (de) n
• Greek: μπουκέτο (el) n (boukéto)
• Hebrew: זר‎‎ (he) m (zer), זר פרחים‎‎
• Hungarian: virágcsokor (hu), csokor (hu)
• Icelandic: blómvöndur (is) m
• Ido: buketo (io)
• Italian: mazzo (it)

• Japanese: 花束 (はなたば, hanataba)
• Korean: 꽃다발 (ko) (kkotdabal)
• Ladin: maz de ciofes m
• Ladino:

  Latin: demet m

• Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: буке́т m (bukét)
• Polish: bukiet (pl) m, wiązanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: buquê (pt)
• Romanian: buchet (ro) n
• Russian: буке́т (ru) m (bukét)
• Scots: flour
• Slovak: kytica f, buket m
• Spanish: ramo (es) m, ramita f
• Swedish: bukett (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalangi
• Turkish: buket (tr)
• Ukrainian: буке́т (uk) m (bukét)
• Vietnamese: bó hoa
• Volapük: flored (vo)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

scent of wine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒香 (jiǔxiāng), 芳香 (zh) (fāngxiāng)

• Czech: buket (cs) m
• Danish: bouquet (da) c
• Finnish: bukee (fi)
• French: bouquet (fr) m
• German: Bouquet (de) n
• Hungarian: buké (hu)

• Icelandic: vínilmur m
• Italian: profumo (it) m, fragranza (it), aroma (it) m
• Japanese: 香り (かおり, kaori)
• Maori: kakara
• Portuguese: buquê (pt) m
• Romanian: buchet (ro) n, aromă (ro) f
• Russian: буке́т (ru) m (bukét)
• Spanish: aroma (es) m

See also

• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukɛ/, [b̥uˈkʰɛ] or IPA^(key): /buke/, [b̥uˈkʰe]

Noun

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

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French

Etymology

From Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.kɛ/

• Audio

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Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. a set or selection of something.
3. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

Descendants

Descendants of bouquet in other languages

• Afrikaans: boeket
• Azerbaijani: buket
• Czech: buket
• Danish: buket
• Dutch: boeket
• English: bouquet
• Esperanto: bukedo
• Finnish: bukee
• German: Bouquet
• Greek: μπουκέτο (boukéto)
• Macedonian: букет (buket)

• Norwegian: bukett
• Polish: bukiet
• Portuguese: buquê
• Romanian: buchet
• Russian: буке́т (bukét)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin: bùkēt
  • Roman: бу̀ке̄т
• Spanish: buqué
• Swedish: bukett
• Turkish: buket

Further reading

• “bouquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).