How to Say 'Flower' in 50 Different Languages
Impress your friends with your newfound knowledge of how to say "flower" in different languages.
Sep 22, 2021
Shakespeare was right: A flower called by any other name would still smell just as sweet... and it would look just as beautiful too! But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun learning all the different names that blooms are given around the world.
Here’s how to say "flower" in 50 different languages.
- Afrikaans: "Blom"
- Albanian: "Lule"
- Azerbaijani: "Gül"
- Bosnian: "Cvijet"
- Catalan: "Flor"
- Croatian: "Cvijet"
- Czech: "Kvet"
- Danish: "Blomst"
- Dutch: "Bloem"
- Esperanto: "Floro"
- Estonian: "Lill"
- Filipino: "Bulaklak"
- Finnish: "Kukka"
- French: "Fleur"
- German:"Blume"
- Greek: "Anthos" or "louloúdi"
- Guarani: "Phūla"
- Haitian Creole: "Flè"
- Hungarian: "Virág"
- Icelandic: "Blóm"
- Indonesian: "Bunga"
- Irish: "Bláth" or “Planda”
- Italian: "Fiore"
- Kurdish: "Kûlîlk"
- Latin: "Flos"
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- Latvian: "Zieds"
- Lithuanian: "Gėlė"
- Malay: "Bunga"
- Maltese:"Fjura"
- Norwegian: "Blomst" or "Blome"
- Polish: "Kwiat"
- Portuguese: "Flor"
- Romanian: "Floare"
- Scottish Gaelic: "Flùr"
- Serbian:"цвет"
- Slovak: "Kvetina"
- Slovenian: "Cvet"
- Somali: "Ubax"
- Spanish: "Flor"
- Sundanese: "Kembang"
- Swahili: "Maua"
- Swedish: "Blomma"
- Thai: "ดอกไม้"
- Turkish: "çiçek"
- Ukrainian: "квітка"
- Vietnamese: "Hoa"
- Welsh: "Blodyn
AUTHOR
Madeline started her writing career as an art and culture reporter for her university newspaper, FSView. She has since contributed to Tallahassee Woman Magazine, CollegeFashion.net, and Mission Magazine. Based in New York City, she enjoys going to art galleries and drinking matcha lattes when away from the keyboard.
