edelweiss

edelweiss

See also: Edelweiß, Edelweiss, and édelweiss

English

WOTD – 31 May 2008

An edelweiss.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß, from edel (“noble”) + weiß (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈeɪdəlvaɪs/

Noun

edelweiss (usually uncountable, plural edelweisses)

1. A European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.

Translations

a European perennial alpine plant

Arabic: إِيدِلْفَايْس‎ f (ʾīdilfāys) Azerbaijani: edelveys Basque: elur-lore Catalan: flor de neu f Chinese: Mandarin: 雪絨花／雪绒花 (xuěrónghuā) Czech: protěž f, protěž alpská (cs) f, plesnivec alpský m Finnish: alppitähti (fi) French: edelweiss (fr) m German: Edelweiß (de) n Greek: εντελβάις (el) (entelváis) Ancient: λεοντοπόδιον n (leontopódion) Hungarian: gyopár (hu) Ido: edelweiss (io) Italian: stella alpina f Japanese: エーデルワイス (ēderuwaisu), 西洋薄雪草 (seiyōusuyukisō) Kazakh: еңлікгүл (eñlıkgül) Korean: 에델바이스 (edelbaiseu) Mòcheno: edelbais n Romanian: floare-de-colț (ro) f, edelvais (ro) m, albumeală (ro) f Romansch: stailalva alpina f Russian: эдельве́йс (ru) m (edelʹvéjs) Serbo-Croatian: рунолист m, runolist (sh) m, планинка f, planinka (sh) f Slowak: plesnivec alpínsky m Slovene: planika (sl) f, očnica f Ukrainian: білотка альпійська f (bilotka alʹpijsʹka) Welsh: troed y llew m

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.dəlˌʋɛi̯s/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: edel‧weiss

Noun

edelweiss n or m (plural edelweissen, diminutive edelweissje n)

1. edelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum

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French

Alternative forms

• édelweiss (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Edelweiß. See English edelweiss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.dɛl.vajs/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

edelweiss m (plural edelweiss)

1. edelweiss

Further reading

• “edelweiss”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.