hyacinth

See also: Hyacinth

English

Hyacinthus orientalis, a species of the genus Hyacinthus

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English jacinth, partly from Old French jacincte, from Medieval Latin jacintus, and partly from Old English iacinþ, from Medieval Latin jacinthus, both from Latin hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “any of several dark blue flowers”), ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Re-Latinized in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəsɪnθ/
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Noun

hyacinth (plural hyacinths)

Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa.
- 1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 1017374996, stanza 1, page 177:
  On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue.
A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth.

Derived terms

grape hyacinth
hyacinth bean
hyacinth of Peru
starch hyacinth
star hyacinth
water hyacinth

Translations

plant of the genus Hyacinthus

Albanian: zymbyl (sq)
Armenian: հակինթ (hy) (hakintʿ)
Assamese: মেটেকা (meteka)
Asturian: xacintu m
Bulgarian: зюмбю́л (bg) m (zjumbjúl), хиацинт m (hiacint)
Catalan: jacint m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 風信子／风信子 (zh) (fēngxìnzǐ)
Czech: hyacint (cs) m
Danish: hyacint
Dutch: hyacint (nl) f
Estonian: hüatsint (et)
Finnish: hyasintti (fi)
French: jacinthe (fr) f
Gagauz: zümbül
Galician: xacinto m
Georgian: სუმბული (sumbuli)
German: Hyazinthe (de) f
Greek: υάκινθος (el) m (yákinthos), ζουμπούλι (el) n (zoumpoúli), ζιμπούλι (el) n (zimpoúli)
Ancient: ὑάκινθος m (huákinthos)
Hebrew: יקינתון‎ (he) m
Hungarian: jácint (hu)
Irish: ^{(please verify)} iasaint f, bú m
Italian: giacinto (it) m
Japanese: ヒヤシンス (ja) (hiyashinsu)
Kazakh: сүмбіл (sümbıl)
Korean: 히아신스 (hiasinseu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: sumbul (ku)
Latin: vaccīnium n
Latvian: hiacinte m
Lithuanian: hiacintas m
Macedonian: зумбул m (zumbul)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hyasint m
Nynorsk: hyasint m
Ottoman Turkish: سنبل‎ (sümbül)
Persian: سنبل‎ (fa) (sombol)
Polish: hiacynt (pl) m
Portuguese: jacinto (pt) m
Romanian: zambilă (ro) f, iacint (ro) m
Russian: гиаци́нт (ru) m (giacínt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зумбул m
Roman: zumbul (sh) m
Slovak: hyacint m
Slovene: hijacinta (sl) f
Spanish: jacinto (es) m
Swahili: hiakintho, yasintho
Swedish: hyacint (sv)
Tagalog: hasinto
Turkish: sümbül (tr)
Ukrainian: гіаци́нт m (hiacýnt)
Welsh: hiasinth m, iacinth m
West Frisian: hyasint

a gemstone — see jacinth

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} hiacinto (eo)