clover

See also: Clover

English

zigzag clover Trifolium medium

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-Germanic *klaibrǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(r)

Noun

clover (plural clovers)

1. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
2. (cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

Hyponyms

• shamrock
• trefoil

Derived terms

Terms derived from clover

• clover weevil
• clover worm

• in clover
• red clover

• sweet clover
• white clover

Translations

plant in genus Trifolium

• Afrikaans: klawer
• Albanian: tërfil (sq)
• Arabic: نَفَل (ar) m (nafal)
• Armenian: երեքնուկ (hy) (erekʻnuk), խնձորուկ (hy) (xnjoruk), սիրի-սիրի (hy) (siri-siri)
• Aromanian: trifoljiu, trifolju, trifiljiu
• Asturian: trébole m
• Azerbaijani: yonca (az)
• Belarusian: канюшы́на f (kanjušýna)
• Breton: melchon (br)
• Bulgarian: детелина f (detelina)
• Burmese: ကလိုဗါပင် (ka.luibapang)
• Catalan: trèvol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三葉草／三叶草 (saam¹jip⁶cou²)

  Mandarin: 三葉草／三叶草 (zh) (sānyècǎo), 三叶草 (zh) (sānyècǎo), 苜 (zh) (mù)

• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān ocōxōchitl, trebol
• Cornish: mellyon
• Czech: jetel m
• Danish: kløver c
• Dutch: klaver f
• Esperanto: trifolio
• Estonian: ristikhein (et)
• Faroese: smæra f
• Finnish: apila (fi)
• French: trèfle (fr) m
• Friulian: cerfoi, cerfuei
• Galician: trevo (gl) m
• Georgian: სამყურა (ka) (samq̇ura)
• German: Klee (de) m
• Greek: τριφύλλι (el) n (trifýlli)

  Ancient: τρίφυλλον n (tríphullon)

• Hebrew: תִּלְתָּן (he) m (tiltán)
• Hindi: तिपतिया m (tipatiyā)
• Hungarian: lóhere (hu)
• Icelandic: smári (is) m
• Ido: trifolio (io)
• Indonesian: semanggi (id)
• Irish: seamair f
• Italian: trifoglio (it) m
• Japanese: クローバー (ja) (kurōbā), 白詰草 (ja) (しろつめくさ, shirotsumekusa) (white clover), 車軸草 (ja) (しゃじくそう, shajikusō)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಲವರ್ (klavar)
• Kashubian: kòniczëna, kléwer m
• Korean: 클로버 (ko) (keullobeo)
• Latin: trifolium n, cytisus m
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• Latvian: āboliņš (lv) m
• Limburgish: kliè, klieë (li), klaver (li)
• Lithuanian: dobilas m
• Luxembourgish: Kléi m
• Macedonian: детелина f (detelina)
• Malay: semanggi
• Maltese: silla (mt) f
• Manx: shamrag f
• Maori: korouwa, koroua, korowa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kløver (no) m

  Nynorsk: kløver m

• Occitan: trefuèlh m
• Old Prussian: ābils
• Persian: شبدر (fa) (šabdar)
• Polish: koniczyna (pl) f, dzięcielina (pl) f
• Portuguese: trevo (pt) m
• Quechua: chikmu, layu, ispinku
• Romanian: trifoi (ro) n
• Russian: кле́вер (ru) m (kléver)
• Sardinian: tirifozi, tirvozu, travullu, trevúgliu, trivudhu
• Saterland Frisian: Kleeuwer m
• Scottish Gaelic: seamrag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детелина f

  Roman: detelina (sh) f

• Slovak: ďatelina f
• Slovene: detelja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiśelina f

  Upper Sorbian: dźećel (hsb) m

• Spanish: trébol (es) m
• Swedish: klöver (sv) n
• Tagalog: klober
• Tongan: kihikihipālangi
• Turkish: yonca (tr)
• Ukrainian: конюши́на f (konjušýna)
• Uzbek: beda (uz)
• Vietnamese: cây xa trục thảo
• Vilamovian: kłej m
• Welsh: meillion
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

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