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English
Etymology
From flower + pot.
Pronunciation
Noun
flowerpot (plural flowerpots)
- A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
1653, William Basse, “Clio, or The First Muse; in 9 Eglogues in Honor of 9 Vertues. As It was in His Dayes Intended. [Munday. Laurinella. Eglogue. Of True and Chast Love.]”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Pastorals and Other Workes of William Basse. (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], published 1870, →OCLC:O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot
How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize:
Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot
That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:`I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.'
1914, Louis Joseph Vance, “Anarchy”, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC, page 33:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Derived terms
Translations
container in which plants are grown
- Albanian: saksi (sq), vazo (sq) f
- Arabic: أَصِيص اَلزُّهُور m (ʔaṣīṣ az-zuhūr), أَصِيص m (ʔaṣīṣ)
- Aramaic:
- Jewish: אֲצִיצָא (ʾăṣīṣā)
- Armenian: ծաղկաման (hy) (caġkaman)
- Aromanian: săcsie f
- Azerbaijani: dibçək (az)
- Belarusian: (кветкавы) гаршчо́к (be) m (harščók)
- Bulgarian: сакси́я (bg) f (saksíja)
- Catalan: vas de flors m, pot (ca) m, torreta (ca) m, test (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 花盆 (zh) (huāpén)
- Czech: květináč (cs) m, kořenáč m
- Danish: urtepotte (da) c
- Dutch: bloempot (nl) m
- Esperanto: florpoto
- Faroese: urtapottur m
- Finnish: kukkaruukku (fi)
- French: pot de fleur (fr) m
- Galician: testo (gl) m
- Georgian: საყვავილე (saq̇vavile), ყვავილის ქოთანი (q̇vavilis kotani)
- German: Blumentopf (de) m
- Greek: γλάστρα (el) f (glástra)
- Hebrew: עָצִיץ (he) m ('atzítz)
- Hungarian: virágcserép (hu)
- Icelandic: blómapottur m
- Italian: vaso (it) da (it) fiori (it) m, grasta (it) f
- Japanese: 植木鉢 (ja) (うえきばち, uekibachi)
- Kazakh: құмыра (qūmyra), қыш құмыра (qyş qūmyra)
- Korean: 화분 (ko) (hwabun)
- Kyrgyz: кумура (ky) (kumura), карапа (ky) (karapa)
- Latin: tēsta (la) f
- Macedonian: саксија f (saksija)
- Malayalam: ചെടിച്ചട്ടി (ceṭiccaṭṭi)
- Navajo: chʼil bee sikání, chʼil bee naazkání
- Norman: pot à flieurs m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: blomsterpotte m or f
- Nynorsk: blomepotte f, blomsterpotte f
- Ottoman Turkish: ساقسی (saksı), چیچكلك (çiçeklik)
- Persian: گلدان (fa) (goldân)
- Polish: donica (pl) f, doniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: vaso de flores m
- Romanian: ghiveci (ro) n, vas de flori n, sacsie f
- Russian: (цвето́чный) горшо́к (ru) m (goršók)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: цве̏ћња̄к m, цвје̏ћња̄к m, са̀ксија f
- Roman: cvȅćnjāk m, cvjȅćnjāk m, sàksija (sh) f
- Slovak: kvetináč m
- Slovene: (cvetlični) lonec (sl) m
- Spanish: maceta (es) f, matero (es) m (Venezuela), plantera f (Northeastern Argentina, Paraguay), potera f (Colombian Atlantic Coast), tiesto (es) m (Puerto Rico, Spain)
- Swedish: blomkruka (sv) c, blomsterkruka c
- Tagalog: yanga, paso
- Tajik: гулдон (guldon)
- Thai: กระถางดอกไม้ (grà-tǎang-dɔ̀ɔk-máai), กระถางต้นไม้ (grà-tǎang-dtôn-máai)
- Turkish: saksı (tr)
- Ukrainian: (квітковий) го́рщик (uk) m (hórščyk), горщо́к m (horščók), горне́ць (uk) m (hornécʹ)
- Uzbek: guldon (uz)
- Vietnamese: chậu (vi) hoa (vi)
- Yiddish: בלומענטאָפּ m (blumentop)
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