bouquet

bouquet

See also: Bouquet

English

Porcelain bouquet, from circa 1760

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊˈkeɪ/, /buˈkeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)

1. A bunch of cut flowers.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2. A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

   Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

3. The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

4. The heart note of a perfume.

   The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

5. A compliment or expression of praise.
6. (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
7. (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
8. (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

Derived terms

• bouquet of circles
• bouquet of spheres
• bouquets and brickbats
• fruit bouquet

 

Translations

bunch of flowers

Albanian: buqetë (sq) f Arabic: بَاقَة‎ f (bāqa) Armenian: ծաղկեփունջ (hy) (całkepʿunǰ) Azerbaijani: gül dəstəsi, dəstə (az) Belarusian: буке́т m (bukjét) Bengali: কুসুমস্তবক (kusumôstôbôkô) Bulgarian: буке́т (bg) m (bukét), ки́тка (bg) f (kítka) Burmese: ပန်းစည်း (my) (pan:cany:) Catalan: ram (ca) m, ramell (ca) m, pom (ca) m, toia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 花束 (zh) (huāshù) Czech: kytice (cs) f, pugét m Danish: buket (da) c Dutch: bouquet (nl) m, ruiker (nl) m, bos (nl) m Esperanto: bukedo (eo) Estonian: bukett, kimp Faroese: blómutyssi n Finnish: kukkakimppu (fi) French: bouquet (fr) m Friulian: mac m Georgian: თაიგული (taiguli) German: Blumenstrauß (de) m, Bouquet (de) n Greek: ανθοδέσμη (el) f (anthodésmi) Hebrew: זֵר‎ (he) m (zer), זר פרחים‎ Hindi: गुलदस्ता (hi) m (guldastā) Hungarian: virágcsokor (hu), csokor (hu) Icelandic: blómvöndur (is) m Ido: buketo (io) Indonesian: buket (id) Italian: mazzo (it) m Japanese: 花束 (ja) (はなたば, hanataba), ブーケ (ja) (būke) Kazakh: байлам (bailam), букет (buket) Khmer: ភួង (km) (phuəng), កណ្ដាប់ (km) (kɑndap) Korean: 꽃다발 (ko) (kkotdabal), 부케 (buke), 화속(花束) (hwasok) Kyrgyz: букет (ky) (buket), гүлдесте (ky) (güldeste) Ladin: maz de ciofes m Ladino: Latin: demet m Lao: ຊໍ່ (sǭ), ພົ້ວ (phūa), ຮົດ (hot), ມາລາ (mā lā) Latvian: pušķis m Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: puokštė f Livonian: kimp Macedonian: буке́т m (bukét), китка f (kitka) Malay: jambak Mongolian: баглаа (mn) (baglaa), цоморлог (mn) (comorlog) Nepali: गुलदस्ता (ne) (guladastā) Norwegian: Bokmål: bukett m Pashto: ګلدسته‎ f (gwәldastá) Persian: دسته‌گل‎ (daste-gol), گلدسته‎ (fa) (goldaste) Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Polish: bukiet (pl) m, wiązanka (pl) f Portuguese: buquê (pt), bouquet (pt) m, ramo (pt) m Romanian: buchet (ro) n Russian: буке́т (ru) m (bukét) Sanskrit: गुच्छ (sa) m (guccha) Scots: flour Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бу̀ке̄т m Roman: bùkēt (sh) m Slovak: kytica f, buket m Slovene: šopek (sl) m Spanish: ramo (es) m, ramita f, buqué m Swedish: bukett (sv) c Tagalog: kalangi Tajik: гулдаста (guldasta), дастаи гул (dastayi gul) Thai: ช่อ (th) (chɔ̂ɔ), พเยีย (th) (pá-yiia) Turkish: buket (tr), demet (tr) Turkmen: desse, gül desseçi Ukrainian: буке́т (uk) m (bukét), ки́тиця f (kýtycja) Urdu: گلدستہ‎ m (guldasta) Uyghur: گۈلدەستە‎ (güldeste) Uzbek: buket (uz), guldasta (uz) Vietnamese: bó hoa Volapük: flored (vo) Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: tusw m, pwysi m Yiddish: בוקעט‎ m (buket)

scent of wine

Arabic: شَذًى‎ m (šaḏan), شَذًا‎ m (šaḏan) Bulgarian: буке́т (bg) m (bukét) Catalan: aroma (ca) f, buquet m Chinese: Mandarin: 酒香 (jiǔxiāng), 芳香 (zh) (fāngxiāng) Czech: buket (cs) m Danish: bouquet (da) c Esperanto: bukedo (eo) Finnish: bukee (fi) French: bouquet (fr) m German: Bouquet (de) n Hungarian: buké (hu) Icelandic: vínilmur m Irish: cumhracht f Italian: profumo (it) m, fragranza (it) f, aroma (it) m Japanese: 香り (ja) (かおり, kaori) Maori: kakara Portuguese: buquê (pt) m Romanian: buchet (ro) n, aromă (ro) f Russian: буке́т (ru) m (bukét) Spanish: aroma (es) m, buqué m Welsh: persawr (cy) m

See also

• bouquet garni
• nosegay
• corsage
• posy

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bukɛ/, [b̥uˈkʰɛ] or IPA^(key): /buke/, [b̥uˈkʰe]

Noun

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)

1. bouquet (scent of wine)

Related terms

• buket

Further reading

• “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.kɛ/

• Audio

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Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. a set or selection of something
3. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

Derived terms

• bouquet garni

Descendants

• → Arabic: بَاقَة‎ (bāqa)
• → Azerbaijani: buket
• → Catalan: buquet
• → Czech: buket
• → Danish: buket, bouquet
• → English: bouquet
• → Esperanto: bukedo
• → Finnish: bukee
• → German: Bouquet
• → Greek: μπουκέτο (boukéto)
• → Japanese: ブーケ (būke)
• → Macedonian: букет (buket)
• → Norwegian: bukett
• → Polish: bukiet
• → Portuguese: buquê, bouquet
• → Romanian: buchet
• → Russian: буке́т (bukét)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Latin: bùkēt
  • → Cyrillic: бу̀ке̄т
• → Spanish: buqué
• → Swedish: bukett
• → Turkish: buket

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.

Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)

1. Alternative form of buquê