peony

English

Alternative forms

Paeonia officinalis officinalis.

• paeony

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English peonie, peonia et al., from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman peonie, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French peone, from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paean, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːəni/

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Noun

peony (plural peonies)

1. A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers. [from 10th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 219:

     The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

Translations

Paeonia genus of flowering plants

• Albanian: bozhure (sq) f
• Armenian: քաջվարդ (hy) (kʻaǰvard), պիոն (hy) (pion)
• Azerbaijani: pion (az)
• Belarusian: піво́ня f (pivónja)
• Bulgarian: божу́р (bg) m (božúr)
• Catalan: peònia f
• Chechen: цӏен лерг (cʼen lerg)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牡丹 (maau⁵ daan¹; mau⁵ daan¹)

  Mandarin: 牡丹 (zh) (mŭdān)

• Chuvash: пион (pion)
• Crimean Tatar: şaqayıq
• Czech: pivoňka (cs) f
• Danish: pæon
• Dutch: pioen (nl), pioenroos (nl)
• Estonian: pojeng (et)
• Finnish: pioni (fi)
• French: pivoine (fr) f
• Georgian: იორდასალამი (iordasalami)
• German: Pfingstrose (de) f, Päonie f
• Greek: παιωνία f (paionía)

  Ancient: γλυκυσίδη f (glukusídē), ὀρόβαξ f (oróbax)

• Hungarian: bazsarózsa (hu)
• Italian: peonia (it) f
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• Japanese: 牡丹 (ja) (ぼたん botan), ボタン (ja) (botan)
• Kashubian: bùjón
• Kazakh: таушымылдық (tauşymyldyq), шұғынық (şūğynyq)
• Korean: 모란 (ko) (molan)
• Kyrgyz: пион (pion)
• Latin: paeōnia f
• Latvian: peonija
• Lithuanian: bijūnas m
• Macedonian: божур m (božur)
• Mongolian: цээнэ цэцэг (ceene ceceg)
• Norman: pâsse-rose f
• Polish: piwonia (pl) f, peonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: peônia (pt) f (Brazil), peónia (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: bujor (ro) m
• Russian: пио́н (ru) m (pión)
• Serbo-Croatian: божур m, božur (sh) m
• Spanish: peonía f
• Swedish: pion (sv) c
• Tatar: пион (pion), чалма чәчәк (çalma çäçäk), чалмабаш (tt) (çalmabaş)
• Thai: โบตั๋น (th) (boo-dtǎn)
• Turkish: şakayık (tr)
• Ukrainian: піво́нія f (pivónija)
• Uzbek: sallagul (uz)
• Vietnamese: mẫu đơn (vi)

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