chrysanthemum

See also: Chrysanthemum

English

Yellow chrysanthemums

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῡσάνθεμον (khrūsánthemon, “Persian buttercup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈsænθəməm/

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Noun

chrysanthemum (plural chrysanthemums or chrysanthema)

1. Any of many flowering perennial plants, of the genus Chrysanthemum, native to China, that have showy radiate heads.

Synonyms

• mum (US)

Derived terms

• Chrysanthemum Throne
• garland chrysanthemum
• Indian chrysanthemum

 

Translations

flower

• Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān)
• Armenian: ոսկեծաղիկ (hy) (oskecaġik)
• Azerbaijani: payızgülü
• Bashkir: хризантема (xrizantema), әрем гөлө (ərem gölö), алтын сәскә (altın səskə)
• Belarusian: хрызантэ́ма f (xryzantéma)
• Bengali: চন্দ্রমল্লিকা (bn) (condromollika)
• Bulgarian: хризанте́ма (bg) f (hrizantéma)
• Burmese: ဂန္ဒမာ (ganda.ma)
• Catalan: crisantem (ca) m, estrany (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菊花 (guk¹ faa¹), 菊 (guk¹)

  Eastern Min: 菊花 (gé̤ṳk-huă), 菊 (gé̤ṳk)

  Gan: 菊花 ('jiuh⁶ fa¹)

  Hakka: 菊花 (khiuk-fâ), 菊 (khiuk)

  Hokkien: 菊花 (zh-min-nan) (kiok-hue), 菊 (zh-min-nan) (kiok)

  Jin: 菊花 (jyeh⁴ hua¹)

  Mandarin: 菊 (zh) (jú), 菊花 (zh) (júhuā)

  Northern Min: 菊花 (gṳ̆-huá), 菊 (gṳ̆)

  Wu: 菊花, 菊

  Xiang: 菊花 (ju⁶ fa¹)

• Czech: chryzantéma (cs) f
• Danish: krysantemum c, okseøje c
• Dutch: chrysant (nl) f
• Esperanto: krizantemo
• Finnish: krysanteemi (fi)
• French: chrysanthème (fr) m
• Galician: crisantemo m
• Georgian: ქრიზანთემა (krizantema)
• German: Chrysantheme (de) f
• Greek: χρυσάνθεμο (el) n (chrysánthemo)

  Ancient Greek: χρυσάνθεμον n (khrusánthemon)

• Hebrew: חַרְצִית (he) f (ẖartzít)
• Hindi: गुलदाउदी (hi) (guldāudī)
• Hungarian: krizantém (hu), margitvirág (hu)
• Ido: krizantemo (io)
• Indonesian: seruni (id)
• Irish: criosantamam m
• Italian: crisantemo (it) m
• Japanese: 菊 (ja) (きく, kiku)
• Javanese: seruni, krisan
• Kannada: ಸೇವಂತಿಗೆ (kn) (sēvantige)
• Kazakh: бақытгүл (baqytgül)
• Khmer: ផ្កាស្បៃរឿងទេស (pkaa sbay rɨəng teeh)
• Komi-Permyak: хризантэма (xrizantema)
• Komi-Zyrian: хризантема (xrizanťema)
• Korean: 국화 (ko) (gukhwa)
• Latin: chrysanthemum n
• Latvian: krizantēmas m
• Lithuanian: skaistažiedė f, chrizantema f
• Livvi: hrizantiemu
• Lü: ᦋᦲᧉᦩᦱᧈ (tsii²xwaa¹)
• Macedonian: хризантема f (hrizantema)
• Malagasy: krizantema
• Malay: kekwa (ms)
• Malayalam: ജമന്തി (ml) (jamanti)
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᠵᡳᡵᡳ
  ᡳᠯᡥᠠ (bojiri ilha)
• Marathi: शेवंती (śevantī)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: хризантема (hrizantema)

  Western Mari: хризантема (hrizantema)

• Mongolian: шиваантиг (mn) (šivaantig)
• Nepali: गोदावरीI (godāwarīI)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krysantemum m

  Nynorsk: krysantemum m

• Occitan: crisantèm m
• Pali: วิตุนฺน n (vitunna), สุนิสนฺนา f (sunisannā), สุนิปณฺณก m (sunipaṇṇaka)
• Persian: داوودی (fa) (dâvudi), کوپل (kupal)
• Picard: sinte-catrine f, grizintinme f, crizintinme f
• Polish: chryzantema (pl) f, jastrun m, jastruń m, złocień (pl) m
• Portuguese: crisântemo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਗੁਲਦਾਊਦੀ (guldāūdī)
• Romanian: crizantemă (ro) f
• Russian: хризанте́ма (ru) f (xrizantɛ́ma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кризанте́ма f, хризанте́ма f

  Roman: (Croatia) krizantéma (sh) f, (Bosnia, Serbia) hrizantéma f

• Sicilian: crisantemu m
• Slovak: chryzantéma f
• Slovene: krizantéma (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: chryzantema f

  Upper Sorbian: chryzantema f

• Spanish: crisantemo (es) m
• Sundanese: krisan
• Swedish: krysantemum (sv) c
• Tagalog: rosas-Hapon, krisantemo
• Tamil: சிவந்தி (ta) (civanti), செவ்வந்தி (ta) (cevvanti)
• Telugu: చామంతి (te) (cāmanti)
• Thai: เบญจมาศ (th) (been-jà-mâat)
• Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་ལུག་མིག (me tog lug mig)
• Turkish: kasımpatı (tr), krizantem (tr)
• Udmurt: хризантема (xrizanťema)
• Ukrainian: хризанте́ма f (xryzantéma)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: хризантема (uz) (xrizantema)

  Roman: xrizantema (uz)

• Vietnamese: cúc đại đóa
• Walloon: sinte-Catrene (wa) f, crizantinme (wa) f
• Welsh: blodyn Mihangel (cy) m
• Yiddish: כריזאַנטעמע f (khrizanteme)
• Zhuang: vagut, va'gyuk

Further reading

• chrysanthemum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chrysanthemum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies