forget-me-not

forget-me-not

English

Forget-me-not

Etymology

Calque of German Vergissmeinnicht.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈɡɛt.mi.nɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɡɛt.miː.nɒt/

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Noun

forget-me-not (plural forget-me-nots)

1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small 5-petalled blue flower.
2. (entomology) Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.

Translations

plant of the genus Myosotis

Armenian: անմոռուկ (hy) (anmoṙuk) Azerbaijani: yaddaşçiçəyi Basque: oroilore Belarusian: незабудка f (nezabúdka) Breton: daoulagad-ar-werc'hez Bulgarian: незабравка f (nezabravka) Chinese: Mandarin: 勿忘草 (zh) (wùwàngcǎo), 勿忘我 (zh) (wùwàngcǎo) Czech: pomněnka f Danish: forglemmigej Dutch: vergeet-me-niet f, vergeet-mij-niet (nl) f Esperanto: neforgesumino Estonian: lõosilm, meelespea (colloquial) Faroese: gloymmegei f, hoylús f Finnish: lemmikki (fi) French: ne-m’oubliez-pas (fr) m, myosotis (fr) m Galician: nonmesquezas (gl) Georgian: კესანე (ḳesane), ცისანა (cisana) German: Vergissmeinnicht (de) n Greek: μη με λησμόνει (el) n (mi me lismónei) Hungarian: nefelejcs (hu) Icelandic: gleym-mér-ei (is) f Irish: lus míonla m Italian: nontiscordardimé m, miosotide f Japanese: 勿忘草 (わすれなぐさ, wasurenagusa) Kabardian: кърухугу (q̇rwx°g°)

Kazakh: ботакөз (botaköz) Korean: 물망초 (ko) (mulmangcho) (勿忘草 (ko)) Latin: myosotis f Latvian: neaizmirstule f Lithuanian: neužmirštuõlė f Norwegian: Bokmål: forglemmegei m Nynorsk: minneblom m, forgløymmegei m Ossetian: ма-рох-кӕн (ma-rox-kæn) Polish: niezapominajka (pl) f, niezabudka (pl) f (borrowing) Portuguese: não-me-esqueças m, miosótis (pt) Romanian: nu-mă-uita (ro), miozotis (ro) m Russian: незабу́дка (ru) f (nezabúdka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: незаборавак m Roman: nezaboravak (sh) m Slovak: nezábudka (sk) f Slovene: spominčica (sl) f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: njezapomničak m Spanish: nomeolvides (es) f Swedish: förgätmigej (sv) Tatar: күгəрчен күзе (kügərçen küze) Turkish: unutmabeni (tr) Ukrainian: незабудка f (nezabúdka) Welsh: nâd-fi'n angof West Frisian: ferjit-my-net, forjit my net