daisy

See also: Daisy and DAISY

English

Bellis perennis

Alternative forms

daisie, daysie

Etymology

From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēaġe (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.zi/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪzi

Noun

daisy (plural daisies)

A wild flowering plant Bellis perennis of the Asteraceae family, with a yellow head and white petals
Many other flowering plants of various species.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.

Derived terms

daisy chain
fresh as a daisy
push up daisies
whoops-a-daisy, whoopsy-daisy, upsy-daisy

Translations

Bellis perennis

Abkhaz: адәыкакаҷ (ād°əḳāḳāč̣̍)
Arabic: أُقْحُوَان‎ (ʾuqḥuwān)
Armenian: մարգարտածաղիկ (hy) (margartacałik)
Azerbaijani: qızçiçəyi
Bulgarian: паричка f (parička), маргаритка f (margaritka)
Burmese: ဒေစီ (my) (deci)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雛菊, 雏菊 (co¹ guk¹)

Mandarin: 雛菊 (zh), 雏菊 (zh) (chújú), 延命菊 (zh) (yánmìngjú)
Cornish: egor Duw m
Czech: sedmikráska chudobka f
Danish: tusindfryd
Dutch: madeliefje (nl) n
Esperanto: lekanto (eo)
Faroese: summardái m
Finnish: kaunokainen (fi), tuhatkauno
French: pâquerette (fr) f, marguerite (fr) f
Galician: margarida (gl) f
Georgian: ზიზილა (zizila)
German: Gänseblümchen (de) n, Tausendschönchen n, Tagesauge n
Greek: μαργαρίτα (el) f (margaríta)
Hebrew: חִנָּנִית‎ (he) (ẖinanít)
Hindi: gule bahaar f (gule bahaar)
Hungarian: százszorszép (hu)
Icelandic: fagurfífill (is) m
Ido: margriteto (io)

Irish: nóinín (ga) m
Italian: pratolina (it) f, margheritina (it) f
Japanese: 雛菊 (ひなぎく, hinagiku), 延命菊 (えんめいぎく, enmeigiku)
Khmer: ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (pkaa cʰuuk roatta)
Korean: 데이지 (ko) (deiji)
Lao: ດອກກ້ານກ່ອງ (dǭk kān kǭng)
Luxembourgish: Margréitchen f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tusenfryd (no) m

Nynorsk: tusenfryd m
Polish: stokrotka (pl) f
Portuguese: margarida-comum f
Romanian: bănuț (ro) m, părăluță (ro) f, bănuțel (ro) m
Russian: маргари́тка (ru) f (margarítka)
Scottish Gaelic: neòinean f
Serbo-Croatian: tràtīnčica (sh) f, bȇla ráda f
Slovak: sedmokráska (sk) f
Spanish: margarita común f, chiribita f
Swahili: jaja (sw)
Swedish: tusensköna (sv) c
Tagalog: butonsilyo
Turkish: papatya (tr), yoğurt çiçeği (tr)
Vietnamese: hoa cúc, hoa cúc mâm xôi
Yiddish: מאַרגאַריטקע‎ f (margaritke)

commonly used term for related flowers

Cornish: caja f
Dutch: margriet (nl) m or f
Finnish: päivänkakkara (fi) (oxeye daisy)
French: marguerite (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Tagesauge n
Italian: margherita (it) f

Maori: parani
Norwegian: margaritt m
Portuguese: margarida (pt) f
Romanian: margaretă (ro) f
Spanish: margarita (es) f
Swahili: jaja (sw)
Turkish: papatya (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: زهر اللؤلؤ‎ (zahr al-lu’lú’) m
Maltese: ^{(please verify)} margerita f

Old English: ^{(please verify)} dæġes ēaġe n
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} margaretă (ro) f

References

daisy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

I'd say, Sayid, diyas

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