δάφνη

• δᾰ́φνᾱ (dắphnā) — Doric
• δαύχνα (daúkhna) — Thessalian
• λᾰ́φνη (lắphnē) — Epic

Beekes reconstructs a possible Pre-Greek stem *dakʷ-(n-).

δᾰ́φνη • (dắphnē) f (genitive δᾰ́φνης); first declension

1. sweet bay (Laurus nobilis)

   Synonym: λᾰδωνῐ́ς (lădōnĭ́s)

• Greek: δάφνη (dáfni)
  • → Albanian: dafinë, defën, dafan, dhafnë, dhefme — dialectal
  • → Aromanian: dafin, dafnu, dafni / dafne, dhafni / dhafne, dafnjauã, dhafnjauã; dafnã, dafinã
  • → Bulgarian: дафи́на (dafína)
  • → Macedonian: дафина (dafina)
  • → Romanian: dafin, dafină, afin, afină
  • → Serbo-Croatian: dàfīn / да̀фӣн
  • → Sicilian: dàfina, nafra, afra — Calabria
  • → Ottoman Turkish: دفنه (defne), تفنه (tefne)
    • Turkish: defne
    • → Azerbaijani: dəfnə
    • → Middle Armenian: թէֆնէ (tʻēfnē)
    • → Uzbek: dafna
  • → Albanian: dafinë
• → Arabic: دِفْلَى (diflā), دِفْلَة (difla), تِفْلَة (tifla)
  • → Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡐࡋࡀ
  • → Middle Armenian: տֆլայ (tflay), տիֆլայ (tiflay)
  • → Spanish: adelfa
    • → Cebuano: adelpa
    • → Hiligaynon: adelpa
    • → Tagalog: adelpa
• → Hebrew: דַּפְנָה (dafná)
• → Late Latin: daphinus
  • Romanian: dafin, afin
• Translingual: Daphne
  • → English: daphne
• → Old Armenian: դափնի (dapʻni), դաբնի (dabni), դափնէ (dapʻnē), դափնիդ (dapʻnid), դաբնիդ (dabnid), դաբնիա (dabnia), դաբնիդայ (dabniday), դաբնիդեայ (dabnideay), դափնիտեայ (dapʻniteay), դաբնընդեմ (dabnəndem)
  • Armenian: դափնի (dapʻni)
  • →? Old Georgian: დაფნი (dapni)
    • Middle Georgian: დაფნი (dapni)
      • ⇒ Georgian: დაფნა (dapna)
• →? Old Georgian: დაფნი (dapni)

• “δάφνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δάφνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δάφνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δάφνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δάφνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 306-307
• δάφνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δάφνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bay idem, page 65.
  • laurel idem, page 479.
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դափնի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 643a

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē).

δάφνη • (dáfni) f (plural δάφνες)

1. laurel, bay (tree)
2. (cooking) bay, bay leaf

   φύλλο δάφνης ― fýllo dáfnis ― bay leaf

3. (figuratively) victory, triumph

   δρέπω δάφνες ― drépo dáfnes ― reap the laurels

(some likely from earlier stages or through Latin)

• → Albanian: dafinë, defën, dafan, dhafnë, dhefme — dialectal
• → Aromanian: dafin, dafnu, dafni / dafne, dhafni / dhafne, dafnjauã, dhafnjauã; dafnã, dafinã
• → Bulgarian: дафи́на (dafína)
• → Macedonian: дафина (dafina)
• → Romanian: dafin, dafină, afin, afină
• → Serbo-Croatian: dàfīn / да̀фӣн
• → Sicilian: dàfina, nafra, afra — Calabria
• → Ottoman Turkish: دفنه (defne), تفنه (tefne)
  • Turkish: defne
  • → Azerbaijani: dəfnə
  • → Middle Armenian: թէֆնէ (tʻēfnē)
  • → Uzbek: dafna

• δάφνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el