poppy

See also: Poppy

English

The heart of a poppy flower

poppies

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpi/
• Hyphenation: pop‧py

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒpi

Etymology 1

From Middle English popy, popie, from Old English popiġ, popeġ, popæġ (“poppy”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *papaw, from Late Latin papāver.

Noun

poppy (plural poppies)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, with crumpled often red petals and a milky juice.
2. A bright red colour, tinted with orange, like that of the poppy flower.

   poppy:  

3. (chiefly British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy worn in the buttonhole to remember the fallen in the two World Wars, especially around Remembrance Sunday.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph‎^[1]:

     With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

Derived terms

• California poppy ()
• celandine poppy ()
• common poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
• corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
• field poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
• Flanders poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
• Iceland poppy ()
• matilija poppy ()
• opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
• Oriental poppy ()
• poppycock
• Poppy Day
• poppyhead
• poppy red
• poppyseed, poppy seed
• prickly poppy ()
• Shirley Poppy
• tall poppy
• tall poppy syndrome
• Welsh poppy ()

 

Translations

plant

• Abkhaz: абларкыга (ablarkʼəga)
• Albanian: lulëkuqe (sq) f
• Arabic:
• Armenian: կակաչ (hy) (kakačʻ)
• Azerbaijani: lalə (az), xaşxaş (az)
• Belarusian: мак m (mak)
• Bulgarian: мак (bg) m (mak)
• Catalan: rosella (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵡⵙⵉⵙⵏⵜ f (tæwsisənt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罌粟／罂粟 (zh) (yīngsù), 罂粟 (zh) (yīngsù)

• Chuvash: мӑкӑнь (măk̬ănʹ)
• Czech: mák (cs) m
• Danish: valmue c
• Dutch: klaproos (nl) f
• Esperanto: papavo (eo)
• Estonian: moon (et), magun
• Faroese: dreymsólja f, valmua f
• Finnish: unikukka, unikko (fi)
• French: pavot (fr) m, coquelicot (fr) m (corn poppy)
• Galician: papoula (gl) f
• Georgian: ყაყაჩო (q̇aq̇ačo)
• German: Mohn (de) m
• Greek: παπαρούνα (el) f (paparoúna)

  Ancient: μήκων f (mḗkōn), ῥοίας m (rhoías)

• Gujarati: પોસ ? (pos)
• Hebrew: פרג m (parág)
• Hindi: पोस्त (hi) m (post), पॉपी ? (pŏpī)
• Hungarian: mák (hu)
• Icelandic: draumsóley (is) f, valmúi (is) m
• Ido: papavero (io)
• Indonesian: apiun (id)
• Irish: poipín (ga) m, cocán dearg m
• Italian: papavero (it) m
• Japanese: ケシ (keshi), ポピー (popī), 罌粟 (ja), 芥子 (ja) (けし, keshi)
• Kazakh: көкнәр (köknär)
• Korean: 양귀비 (ko) (yang-gwibi)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: papāver (la) n
• Latvian: magone f
• Lithuanian: aguonà f
• Luxembourgish: Feierblumm f
• Macedonian: а́фион m (áfion), бу́лка f (búlka), мак m (mak)
• Malay: bunga madat
• Maori: papi
• Mongolian: намуу цэцэг (namuu ceceg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valmue (no) m

  Nynorsk: valmue m

• Occitan: pavòt (oc) m, pabòt (oc) m
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: شقایق (fa) (šaqâyeq), آذرگون (fa) (âzargun)
• Polish: mak (pl) m
• Portuguese: papoula (pt) f
• Romanian: mac (ro) m
• Russian: мак (ru) m (mak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏к m

  Roman: mȁk (sh) m

• Slovak: mak (sk) m
• Slovene: mak (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mak m

• Spanish: amapola (es) f
• Swahili: mpopi
• Swedish: vallmo (sv) c
• Tashelhit: ⴱⵍⵍⵄⵎⴰⵏ m (bəllʕəmæn), ⵜⴱⵏⵏⵄⵎⴰⵏⵜ f (tæbənn3əmænt)
• Turkish: gelincik (tr)
• Ukrainian: мак (uk) m (mak)
• Urdu: پوست m (post), پاپی ? (pāpī)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: pavoe (wa) m, fleur di tonire (wa) f, colåd (wa) m, coclet (wa) m
• Welsh: pabi m, llygad y bwgan m
• Yiddish: מאָן m (mon)

colour

• Japanese: ケシ色 (keshiiro)
• Polish: szkarłat ?
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• Russian: а́лый (ru) m (ályj) (цвет (cvet))
• Swahili: rangi ya mipopi

artificial poppy

• Finnish: unikko (fi)
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See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• creamcups
• eschscholzia
• opium
• swallowwort

Adjective

poppy (comparative more poppy, superlative most poppy)

1. Of a bright red color, tinted with orange, like that of the poppy flower.

Translations

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Etymology 2

Diminutive pop +‎ -y.

Noun

poppy (plural poppies)

1. (endearing) One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

Etymology 3

pop (“pop music”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy)

1. (music) In the style of pop music.

Translations

music style

• Faroese: popputur
• Finnish: popahtava
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• Swedish: poppig

Etymology 4

pop (“sound”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy)

1. Having a popping sound.