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English
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Pronunciation
Noun
water lily (plural water lilies)
- Any of various members of the Nymphaeaceae family that are tuberous plants, rooted in soil with leaves (lily pads) and flowers floating on the water surface.
- Species of genus Nymphoides, the fringed water lily and similar plants.
- Species of genus Nelumbo.
Translations
Any members of Nymphaeaceae
- Armenian: նունուֆար (hy) (nunufar)
- Bashkir: томбойоҡ (tomboyoq)
- Basque: nenufar
- Belarusian: гарлачык m (harlačyk), вадзяная лілея f (vadzjanaja liljeja)
- Burmese: ကြာ (my) (kra)
- Catalan: nenúfar m, nimfea f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 睡蓮／睡莲 (zh) (shuìlián)
- Crimean Tatar: nilüfer
- Czech: leknín (cs) m
- Dutch: waterlelie (nl) f
- Esperanto: akvolilio, nimfeo
- Finnish: lummekasvi (fi), lumme (fi)
- French: nénufar (fr) m, nénuphar (fr) m
- Galician: nenúfar (gl) m, tapadeira f
- German: Seerose (de) f
- Greek: νούφαρο (el) n (noúfaro)
- Ancient: λωτός m (lōtós)
- Hausa: bado (ha)
- Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנַּת מַיִם (he) f (shoshanát máyim)
- Hungarian: tündérrózsa (hu)
- Indonesian: bunga teratai
- Ingrian: vesikukka
- Irish: bior-rós m, bual-lile f, duilleog bháite f (leaf)
- Italian: ninfea (it) f, giglio d'acqua (it) m
- Japanese: スイレン (ja) (suiren), 睡蓮 (ja) (すいれん, suiren)
- Khmer: លំចង់ (km) (lumcɑng), ព្រលឹត (km) (prɔlɨt)
- Korean: 수련(睡蓮) (ko) (suryeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nîlûfer (ku)
- Lao: ດອກບົວຂີ້ແບ້ (dǭk būa khī bǣ)
- Malayalam: ആമ്പൽ (ml) (āmpal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannlilje m or f, vasslilje m or f, nøkkerose m or f
- Nynorsk: vasslilje f, nykkerose f
- Persian: نیلوفر آبی (fa) (nilufar-e âbi)
- Polish: nenufar (pl) m, grzybień m, lilia wodna (pl) f
- Portuguese: nenúfar (pt) m, ninfeia (pt) f, vitória-régia (pt)
- Romanian: nufăr (ro) m, nenufar (ro) m
- Russian: кувши́нка (ru) f (kuvšínka), ненюфа́р (nenjufár)
- Serbo-Croatian: локвањ m / lokvanj (sh) m, лопоч m / lopoč (sh) m
- Spanish: nenúfar m, ninfea f
- Swahili: yungiyungi (sw)
- Swedish: näckros (sv) c
- Thai: บัว (th) (buua), บัวสาย (buua-sǎai)
- Translingual: Nymphaeaceae
- Turkish: nilüfer (tr), aksu gülü
- Ukrainian: лата́ття (uk) n (latáttja)
- Vietnamese: súng (vi)
- Volapük: nufar
- Welsh: lili'r dŵr f, alaw (cy) f (literary)
- Yucatec Maya: nikteʼ jaʼ
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