English
Pronunciation
Noun
water lily (plural water lilies)
- Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 16:The seeds and roots of the water lily are likewise considered a preventative against lechery.
- Species of genus Nymphoides, fringed water lily and similar plants.
- Species of genus Nelumbo.
Translations
Any members of Nymphaeaceae
- Armenian: նունուֆար (hy) (nunufar)
- Assamese: ভেঁট (bhẽt), ভেঁটফুল (bhẽtophul)
- Bashkir: томбойоҡ (tomboyoq)
- Basque: nenufar
- Belarusian: гарлачык m (harlačyk), вадзяная лілея f (vadzjanaja liljeja)
- Burmese: ကြာ (my) (kra)
- Catalan: nenúfar m, nimfea f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 睡蓮 / 睡莲 (zh) (shuìlián)
- Crimean Tatar: nilüfer
- Czech: leknín (cs) m
- Dutch: waterlelie (nl) f
- Esperanto: akvolilio, nimfeo
- Finnish: lummekasvi (fi), lumme (fi)
- French: nénufar (fr) m, nénuphar (fr) m
- Galician: nenúfar (gl) m, tapadeira f
- German: Seerose (de) f
- Greek: νούφαρο (el) n (noúfaro)
- Ancient: λωτός m (lōtós)
- Hausa: bado (ha)
- Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנַּת מַיִם (he) f (shoshanát máyim)
- Hindi: कुमुदिनी (hi) f (kumudinī)
- Hungarian: tündérrózsa (hu)
- Indonesian: bunga teratai
- Ingrian: vesikukka
- Irish: bior-rós m, bual-lile f, duilleog bháite f (leaf)
- Italian: ninfea (it) f, giglio d'acqua (it) m
- Japanese: スイレン (ja) (suiren), 睡蓮 (ja) (すいれん, suiren)
- Kamta: ভেট (bhet), ঢেপ (dhep), ভেটফুল (bhetophul), ঢেপফুল (dhepophul)
- Khmer: លំចង់ (km) (lumcɑng), ព្រលឹត (km) (prɔlɨt)
- Korean: 수련(睡蓮) (ko) (suryeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nîlûfer (ku)
- Lao: ດອກບົວຂີ້ແບ້ (dǭk būa khī bǣ)
- Malayalam: ആമ്പൽ (ml) (āmpal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannlilje m or f, vasslilje m or f, nøkkerose m or f
- Nynorsk: vasslilje f, nykkerose f
- Persian: نیلوفر آبی (fa) (nilufar-e âbi)
- Polish: nenufar (pl) m, grzybień m, lilia wodna (pl) f
- Portuguese: nenúfar (pt) m, ninfeia (pt) f, vitória-régia (pt)
- Romanian: nufăr (ro) m, nenufar (ro) m
- Russian: кувши́нка (ru) f (kuvšínka), ненюфа́р (nenjufár)
- Serbo-Croatian: локвањ m / lokvanj (sh) m, лопоч m / lopoč (sh) m
- Southern Altai: тумгайак (tumgayak)
- Spanish: nenúfar m, ninfea (es) f
- Swahili: yungiyungi (sw)
- Swedish: näckros (sv) c
- Sylheti: ꠅꠟ (ol)
- Tamil: அல்லி (ta) (alli), ஆம்பல் (ta) (āmpal)
- Thai: บัว (th) (buua), บัวสาย (buua-sǎai)
- Translingual: Nymphaeaceae
- Turkish: nilüfer (tr), aksu gülü
- Ukrainian: лата́ття (uk) n (latáttja)
- Vietnamese: súng (vi)
- Volapük: nufar
- Welsh: lili'r dŵr f, alaw (cy) f (literary)
- Yucatec Maya: nikteʼ jaʼ
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