bouquet

See also: Bouquet

English

Porcelain bouquet, from circa 1760

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

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. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

   Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

3. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

4. The heart note of a perfume.

   The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

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

Derived terms

• bouquet of circles
• bouquet of spheres
• bouquets and brickbats
• fruit bouquet

 

Translations

bunch of flowers

• Albanian: buqetë (sq) f
• Arabic: بَاقَة‎ f (bāqa)
• Armenian: ծաղկեփունջ (hy) (caġkepʿunǰ)
• Azerbaijani: gül dəstəsi, dəstə (az)
• Belarusian: буке́т m (bukjét)
• Bengali: কুসুমস্তবক (kuśumostobok)
• Bulgarian: буке́т (bg) m (bukét), ки́тка (bg) f (kítka)
• Burmese: ပန်းစည်း (my) (pan:cany:)
• Catalan: ram (ca) m, ramell (ca) m, pom (ca) m, toia (ca) f
• 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)
• Estonian: bukett, kimp
• Faroese: blómutyssi n
• Finnish: kukkakimppu (fi)
• French: bouquet (fr) m
• Friulian: mac m
• Georgian: თაიგული (taiguli)
• German: Blumenstrauß (de) m, Bouquet (de) n
• Greek: ανθοδέσμη (el) f (anthodésmi)
• Hebrew: זֵר‎ (he) m (zer), זר פרחים‎
• Hindi: गुलदस्ता (hi) m (guldastā)
• Hungarian: virágcsokor (hu), csokor (hu)
• Icelandic: blómvöndur (is) m
• Ido: buketo (io)
• Indonesian: buket (id)
• Ingrian: kukkakimppu
• Italian: mazzo (it) m
• Japanese: 花束 (ja) (はなたば, hanataba), ブーケ (ja) (būke)
• Kazakh: байлам (bailam), букет (buket)
• Khmer: ភួង (km) (phuəng), កណ្ដាប់ (km) (kɑndap)
• Korean: 꽃다발 (ko) (kkotdabal), 부케 (buke), 화속(花束) (hwasok)
• Kyrgyz: букет (ky) (buket), гүлдесте (ky) (güldeste)
• Ladin: maz de ciofes m
• Ladino:

  Latin: demet m

• Lao: ຊໍ່ (sǭ), ພົ້ວ (phūa), ຮົດ (hot), ມາລາ (mā lā)
• Latvian: pušķis m
• Ligurian: màsso m
• Lithuanian: puokštė f
• Livonian: kimp
• Macedonian: буке́т m (bukét), китка f (kitka)
• Malay: jambak
• Mongolian: баглаа (mn) (baglaa), цоморлог (mn) (comorlog)
• Nepali: गुलदस्ता (ne) (guladastā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukett m

• Pashto: ګلدسته‎ f (gwәldastá)
• Persian: دسته‌گل‎ (daste-gol), گلدسته‎ (fa) (goldaste)
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: bukiet (pl) m, wiązanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: buquê (pt), bouquet (pt) m, ramo (pt) m
• Romanian: buchet (ro) n
• Russian: буке́т (ru) m (bukét)
• Sanskrit: गुच्छ (sa) m (guccha)
• Scots: flour
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̀ке̄т m

  Roman: bùkēt (sh) m

• Slovak: kytica f, buket m
• Slovene: šopek (sl) m
• Spanish: ramo (es) m, ramita f, buqué m
• Swedish: bukett (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalangi
• Tajik: гулдаста (guldasta), дастаи гул (dastayi gul)
• Thai: ช่อ (th) (chɔ̂ɔ), พเยีย (th) (pá-yiia)
• Turkish: buket (tr), demet (tr)
• Turkmen: desse, gül desseçi
• Ukrainian: буке́т (uk) m (bukét), ки́тиця f (kýtycja)
• Urdu: گلدستہ‎ m (guldasta)
• Uyghur: گۈلدەستە‎ (güldeste)
• Uzbek: buket (uz), guldasta (uz)
• Vietnamese: bó hoa
• Volapük: flored (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: tusw m, pwysi m
• Yiddish: בוקעט‎ m (buket)

scent of wine

• Arabic: شَذًى‎ m (šaḏan), شَذًا‎ m (šaḏan)
• Bulgarian: буке́т (bg) m (bukét)
• Catalan: aroma (ca) f, buquet m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: buket (cs) m
• Danish: bouquet (da) c
• Esperanto: bukedo (eo)
• Finnish: bukee (fi)
• French: bouquet (fr) m
• German: Bouquet (de) n
• Hungarian: buké (hu)
• Icelandic: vínilmur m
• Irish: cumhracht f
• Italian: profumo (it) m, fragranza (it) f, aroma (it) m
• Japanese: 香り (ja) (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, buqué m
• Welsh: persawr (cy) m

See also

• bouquet garni
• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

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)

Related terms

• buket

Further reading

• “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, 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)

Derived terms

• bouquet garni

Descendants

• → Arabic: بَاقَة‎ (bāqa)
• → Azerbaijani: buket
• → Catalan: buquet
• → Czech: buket
• → Danish: buket, bouquet
• → English: bouquet
• → Esperanto: bukedo
• → Finnish: bukee
• → German: Bouquet
• → Greek: μπουκέτο (boukéto)
• → Japanese: ブーケ (būke)
• → Macedonian: букет (buket)
• → Norwegian: bukett
• → Polish: bukiet
• → Portuguese: buquê, bouquet
• → Romanian: buchet
• → Russian: буке́т (bukét)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Latin script: bùkēt
  • → Cyrillic script: бу̀ке̄т
• → Spanish: buqué
• → Swedish: bukett
• → Turkish: buket

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.

Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. Alternative form of buquê