oleander

See also: Oleander

English

An oleander bush.

Etymology

From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊliˈændɚ/, /ˈoʊliændɚ/
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

oleander (countable and uncountable, plural oleanders)

1. Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.

   Synonyms: laurel rose, rose laurel, rosebay

Derived terms

• oleander moth
• oleandrin
• oleandrine
• sweet oleander
• yellow oleander

Translations

A poisonous shrub

• Arabic: دِفْلَى f (diflā)
• Armenian: դափնեվարդ (hy) (dapʻnevard), ճփնի (hy) (čpʻni)
• Basque: heriotzorri
• Bengali: করবী (bn) (korobi), করবীর (bn) (korobir)
• Bulgarian: олеандър (bg) m (oleandǎr), зокум m (zokum)
• Burmese: နွယ်သာကီ (my) (nwaisaki)
• Catalan: baladre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾竹桃 / 夹竹桃 (zh) (jiāzhútáo)

• Cornish: (collective) bayros, bayrosen f
• Czech: oleandr m
• Esperanto: oleandro (eo)
• Finnish: oleanteri (fi), oleanteripuu
• French: laurier-rose (fr) m, oléandre (fr) m
• Galician: loendro m, adelfa f
• Georgian: ოლეანდრე (oleandre)
• German: Oleander (de) m
• Greek: πικροδάφνη (el) f (pikrodáfni), ροδοδάφνη (el) f (rododáfni)

  Ancient Greek: νήριον n (nḗrion)

• Hebrew: הַרְדּוּף (he) m (hardúf)
• Hindi: कनेर (hi) m (kaner)
• Hungarian: leander (hu), babérrózsa (hu)
• Ido: rozlauro (io)
• Irish: oiliandar m
• Italian: oleandro (it) m
• Japanese: 夾竹桃 (ja) (kyōchikutō)
• Korean: 협죽도(夾竹桃) (ko) (hyeopjukdo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژاڵە (jalle)

  Southern Kurdish: ژاڵە (ku) (jalle)

• Latin: nerium n
• Macedonian: леандер m (leander)
• Maltese: difla f
• Piedmontese: leànder m
• Polish: oleander (pl) m
• Portuguese: oleandro m, espirradeira (pt) f, loendro m, alandro m
• Romanian: leandru (ro) m, oleandru (ro) m
• Russian: олеа́ндр (ru) m (oleándr)
• Spanish: adelfa (es) f
• Tagalog: adelpa (tl), baladre
• Tamil: அரளி (ta) (araḷi)
• Telugu: గన్నేరు (te) (gannēru)
• Thai: ยี่โถ (yîi-tǒo)
• Turkish: zakkum (tr), ağı ağacı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: زقوم (zakkum), اغو آغاجی (ağu ağacı)

• Vietnamese: trúc đào (vi)
• Welsh: rhoswydden f, rhoslawryf m

Further reading

• Nerium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oleander in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• DeLorean, reloaned

Polish

oleander

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.lɛˈan.dɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -andɛr
• Syllabification: o‧le‧an‧der

Noun

oleander m inan

1. oleander

Declension

Declension of oleander

	singular	plural
nominative	oleander	oleandry
genitive	oleandra	oleandrów
dative	oleandrowi	oleandrom
accusative	oleander	oleandry
instrumental	oleandrem	oleandrami
locative	oleandrze	oleandrach
vocative	oleandrze	oleandry

Further reading

• oleander in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• oleander in Polish dictionaries at PWN