flowerpot

English

Etymology

From flower +‎ pot.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈflaʊɚˌpɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈflaʊəˌpɒt/

Noun

flowerpot (plural flowerpots)

1. A container in which plants are grown.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].

Translations

a container in which plants are grown

• Arabic: أصيص الزهور‏‎
• Armenian: ծաղկաման (hy) (całkaman)
• Azeri: dibçək (az)
• Bulgarian: саксия f (saksija)
• Catalan: test (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花盆 (zh) (huāpén)

• Czech: květináč (cs), kořenáč m
• Danish: urtepotte (da) c
• Dutch: bloempot (nl) m
• Finnish: kukkaruukku (fi)
• French: pot à fleurs m
• Georgian: საყვავილე (saq̇vavile), ყვავილის ქოთანი (q̇vavilis kotani)
• German: Blumentopf (de) m
• Greek: γλάστρα (el) f (glástra)
• Hungarian: virágcserép (hu)
• Italian: vaso da fiori
• Japanese: 植木鉢 (ja) (うえきばち, uekibachi)
• Korean: 화분 (ko) (hwabun)
• Macedonian: саксија f (sáksija)

• Navajo: chʼil bee sikání, chʼil bee naazkání
• Norman: pot à flieurs m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blomsterpotte m, f

  Nynorsk: blomepotte f, blomsterpotte f

• Persian: گلدان‏‎ (fa) (goldân)
• Polish: doniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vaso de flores m
• Romanian: ghiveci (ro) n, vas de flori n
• Russian: (цветочный) горшо́к (ru) m (goršók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цвећњак m, саксија f

  Roman: cvećnjak m, saksija (sh) f

• Spanish: maceta (es) f, matero m (Venezuela), plantera f (Northeastern Argentina, Paraguay), potera f (Colombian Atlantic Coast), tiesto (es) m (Puerto Rico, Spain)
• Swedish: blomkruka (sv) c
• Tagalog: yanga, paso
• Turkish: saksı (tr)
• Vietnamese: chậu hoa
• Yiddish: בלומענטאָפּ‏‎ m (blumentop)