sunflower

English

a sunflower - Helianthus annuus

Etymology

sun +‎ flower

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌflaʊəɹ/

Noun

sun flower (plural sunflowers)

Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
1. The commonly cultivated species, Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.
sunflower colour:
(informal, organic chemistry) Any flat, radially symmetric organic compound such as coronene

Derived terms

sunflowery
The Sunflower State

Related terms

sunchoke

Translations

flower

Albanian: lule dielli f
Arabic: زَهْرَة اَلشَّمْس‎ f (zahrat aš-šams), دوار الشمس‎ m (dawwar aš-šams)
Armenian: արևածաղիկ (arewacałik)
Asturian: mirasol (ast) m, xirasol (ast) m
Azerbaijani: günəbaxan (az)
Bashkir: көнбағыш (könbağïš), (colloqial) симешкә (simeškä)
Basque: ekilore (eu)
Belarusian: слане́чнік m (slanjéčnik)
Breton: tro-heol (br) m
Bulgarian: слънчоглед m (slǎnčogled)
Burmese: နေကြာ (my) (ne-kra)
Catalan: gira-sol (ca) m, mira-sol m
Cherokee: Ꮕ⁠Ꮣ⁠Ꮧ⁠Ꭷ⁠Ꮒ (nv⁠da⁠di⁠ka⁠ni)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 向日葵 (zh) (xiàngrìkuí), 日頭花, 日头花 (rìtóuhuā), 葵花 (zh) (kuíhuā)

Min Nan: 日頭花 (zh-min-nan), 日头花 (ji̍t-thâu-hoe; li̍t-thâu-hoe)
Cornish: howlvleujen f
Czech: slunečnice (cs) f
Danish: solsikke (da) c
Dutch: zonnebloem (nl) f
Esperanto: sunfloro
Estonian: päevalill
Faroese: sólblóma f
Finnish: auringonkukka (fi)
French: tournesol (fr) m
Galician: mirasol (gl) m, xirasol (gl) m
Georgian: მზესუმზირა (mzesumzira)
German: Sonnenblume (de) f
Greek: ηλιοτρόπιο (el) n (iliotrópio)
Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
Gujarati: સૂર્યમુખી (sūryamukhī)
Hebrew: חמנית‎ (he) (chammanit)
Hindi: सूर्यमुखी (hi) f (sūryamukhī), सूरजमुखी (hi) f (sūrajmukhī)
Hungarian: napraforgó (hu)
Icelandic: sólblóm (is) n
Ido: sunfloro (io)
Indonesian: bunga matahari
Ingush: гидуарг (giduarg)
Irish: lus na gréine
Italian: girasole (it) m
Japanese: 向日葵 (ja) (ひまわり, himawari)
Kalmyk: нарн цецг (narn tsetsg)
Khmer: ឈូករតន៍ (cʰuuk roatta)

Korean: 해바라기 (ko) (haebaragi)
Lakota: waȟčázi
Lao: ດອກຕາເວັນ (lo) (dǭk tā wen), ดอกทานตะวัน (ดอกทานตะวัน)
Latvian: saulespuķe
Lithuanian: saulėgrąža
Macedonian: со́нчоглед m (sónčogled)
Malagasy: tanamasoandro (mg)
Malay: bunga matahari, kembang matahari
Manx: lus ny greiney
Nahuatl: chīmalxōchitl (nah)
Navajo: ndíyíliitsoh, nidíyílii
Norman: tournésol m
Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: solsikke (no) n
Pashto: کاپر ګل‎ m (Kapər Gul), لمر ګل‎ f (Lemər Gul), مېر ګل‎ f (Meyr Gul)
Persian: آفتاب‌گردان‎ (âftâb-gardân)
Polish: słonecznik (pl) m
Portuguese: girassol (pt) m, helianto (pt) m, heliotrópio (pt) m, tornassol m
Romanian: floarea soarelui f
Russian: подсо́лнечник (ru) m (podsólnečnik), подсо́лнух (ru) m (podsólnux)
Sanskrit: सूर्यमुखी (sa) f (sūryamukhī)
Scottish Gaelic: neòinean-grèine m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сунцокрет m, сунцоглед m

Roman: suncokret (sh) m, suncogled m
Slovak: slnečnica f
Slovene: sončnica (sl) f
Spanish: girasol (es) m, maravilla (es) f, tornasol m, mirasol m
Sudovian: saulute f
Swahili: alizeti
Swedish: solros (sv) c
Tagalog: mirasol, hirasol
Tamil: சூரியகாந்தி (ta) (cūriyakānti)
Telugu: పొద్దుతిరుగుడు (te) (poddutiruguḍu)
Thai: ดอกทานตะวัน
Turkish: ayçiçeği (tr), gündöndü (tr), günebakan (tr)
Ukrainian: со́няшник m (sónjašnyk), со́нях m (sónjax)
Urdu: سوریہ مکھی‎ f (sūrya-mukhī), سورج مکھی‎ f (sūraj-mukhī)
Uyghur: ئاپتاپپەرەس‎ (aptapperes)
Uzbek: kungaboqar (uz)
Vietnamese: hoa hướng dương
Welsh: blodyn haul
Yiddish: זונרויז‎ (zunroyz)

colour

Finnish: kirkkaan oranssi
Hungarian: napraforgósárga
Ido: sunflorea

Russian: ора́нжевый (ru) (oránževyj)
Ukrainian: жовтогарячий (uk) (žóvto-har'áčyj)

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