Beautiful, colourful and fragrant, flowers have long captivated people and held a special place in our cultures. Indeed, flowers play a key part in many facets of human life including medicine, ritual, romance and even food!
Across Europe there are countless traditions and superstitions connected to flowers, in particular giving them as gifts. These range from never placing red and white flowers together in England, to only giving odd numbers of flowers to the living in Slavic countries like Belarus, Serbia and Ukraine – Spain takes this a step further and says they must be an odd number, but not 13!
Here is how to say flower in the 50 languages of Europe in a Day!
- Albanian – Lule
- Arabic – زهرة (Zahra)
- Armenian – Ծաղիկ (Tsaghik)
- Azerbaijani – Çiçək
- Basque – Lore
- Belarusian – Кветка (Kvyetka)
- Bulgarian – Цвете (Tsvete)
- Catalan – Flor
- Croatian – Cvijet
- Czech – Květ
- Danish – Blomst
- Dutch – Bloem
- Estonian – Õis
- Faroese – Blóma
- Finnish – Kukka
- French – Fleur
- Georgian – ყვავილი (Q’vavili)
- German – Blüte
- Greek – Άνθος (Ánthos)
- Greenlandic – Naasoq
- Hungarian – Virág
- Icelandic – Blóm
- Irish Gaelic – Bláth
- Italian – Fiore
- Jèrriais – Flieur
- Latin – Flos
- Latvian – Zieds
- Lithuanian – Žiedas
- Low German – Blööt
- Luxembourgish – Bléi
- Macedonian – Цвет (Tsvet)
- Maltese – Fjura
- Manx – Blaa
- Monégasque – Sciura
- Northern Sami – Lieđđi
- Norwegian – Blomst
- Polish – Kwiat
- Portuguese – Flor
- Romanian – Floare
- Russian – Цветок (Tsvetok)
- Scots Gaelic – Blàth
- Serbian – Цвет (Tsvet)
- Slovak – Kvet
- Slovene – Cvet
- Spanish – Flor
- Swedish – Blomma
- Swiss German – Blüete
- Turkish – Çiçek
- Ukrainian – Квітка (Kvitka)
- Welsh – Blodyn
And, for the first time ever, here’s how to say ‘flower’ in an additional 10 languages, Bavarian, Breton, Cornish, Guernésiais, Hebrew, Kazakh, Occitan, Old English, Romansh and Sicilian!
- Bavarian – Bliah
- Breton – Bleuñv
- Cornish – Bleujen
- Guernésiais – Flleur
- Hebrew – פרח (Perakh)
- Kazakh – Гүл (Gül)
- Occitan – Flor
- Old English – Blōtsma
- Romansh – Flur
- Sicilian – Ciuri
Author: James Scanlan
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