English
Etymology
From soap + wort, from the soapy matter formed when the leaves are agitated in water.
Noun
soapwort (countable and uncountable, plural soapworts)
- Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.
- Synonyms: latherwort, my lady's washbowl
Translations
herb
- Arabic: غَاسُول m (ḡāsūl), شِرْش الْحَلاوَة m (širš al-ḥalāwa), عِرْق الْحَلاوَة m (ʕirq al-ḥalāwa), صَابُونِيَّة f (ṣābūniyya)
- Palestine: عَصْلَج m (ʔaṣlaj), عَسْلَج m (ʔaslaj)
- Aramaic:
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אשלג m (ʾǎšlag), שלגא m (šulgā)
- Armenian: փրփրիկ (hy) (pʻrpʻrik), օճառախոտ (hy) (ōčaṙaxot)
- Azerbaijani: sabunotu
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: xaboi-belar
- Belarusian: мыльнік m (mylʹnik)
- Breton: louzaouenn-ar-soavon f
- Bulgarian: сапунче n (sapunče)
- Catalan: saponària f, sabonera (ca) f
- Corsican: sapunella f
- Czech: mydlice f
- Danish: sæbeurt c
- Dutch: zeepkruid (nl) n
- Erzya: сапонькай (sapońkaj)
- Esperanto: saponario
- Finnish: suopayrtit (fi)
- French: saponaire (fr) f
- Friulian: savonarie f
- Galician: saponaria (gl) f, xaboeira (gl) f
- Georgian: საპონა (saṗona)
- German: Seifenkraut n
- Greek:
- Ancient: στρούθιον n (stroúthion)
- Hungarian: szappanfű (hu)
- Ido: saponario (io)
- Irish: garbhán creagach m
- Italian: saponaria (it) f
- Japanese: サポナリア (saponaria)
- Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
- Kalmyk: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: сабыншөп (sabynşöp), сабыншөп (sabynşöp)
- Latvian: ziepjusakne f
- Lithuanian: putoklis m
- Neapolitan: sapunella f
- Ossetian: сапонгӕрдӕг (sapongærdæg)
- Ottoman Turkish: صابون اوتی (sabun otu)
- Persian: صابونی (fa), غاسول (fa)
- Polish: mydlnica f
- Portuguese: saponária f
- Romanian: odagaci (ro) m, ciuin (ro) m, săpunariță (ro) f
- Russian: мыльня́нка (ru) f (mylʹnjánka), сапона́рия (ru) f (saponárija)
- Slovak: mydlica f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: mydłowina f
- Upper Sorbian: mydlica f
- Spanish: saponaria f, jabonaria f
- Swedish: såpnejlika (sv) c
- Turkish: sabun otu (tr)
- Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: мильня́нка f (mylʹnjánka)
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