edelweiss

See also: Edelweiß, Edelweiss, and édelweiss

English

WOTD – 31 May 2008

An edelweiss.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß, from edel (“noble”) + weiß (“white”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

edelweiss (usually uncountable, plural edelweisses)

1. A European perennial alpine plant, Leontopodium alpinum, with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.

Translations

a European perennial alpine plant

• Arabic: إِدِيلْوَيْس m (ʾidilways)
• Basque: elur-lore
• Catalan: flor de neu f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪絨花／雪绒花, 雪绒花 (xuěrónghuā)

• Czech: protěž f, protěž alpská f
• Finnish: alppitähti (fi)
• French: edelweiss (fr) m
• German: Edelweiß (de) n
• Greek: εντελβάις (el) (entelváis)

  Ancient: λεοντοπόδιον n (leontopódion)

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• Ido: edelweiss (io)
• Italian: stella alpina f
• Japanese: エーデルワイス (ēderuwaisu)
• Kazakh: еңлікгүл (eñlıkgül)
• Korean: 에델바이스 (edelbaiseu)
• Romanian: floare-de-colț (ro) f, edelvais (ro) m, albumeală (ro) f
• Romansch: stailalva alpina f
• Russian: эдельве́йс (ru) m (edelʹvéjs)
• Serbo-Croatian: рунолист m, runolist (sh) m, планинка f, planinka (sh) f
• Welsh: troed y llew m

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß.

Pronunciation

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Noun

edelweiss n or m (plural edelweissen, diminutive edelweissje n)

1. edelweiss

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French

Alternative forms

• édelweiss (recommended in the 1990 orthography)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß. See English edelweiss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.dɛl.vajs/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

edelweiss m (plural edelweiss)

1. edelweiss

Further reading

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