bonsai

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• General-American: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑnzaɪ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒnsaɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA0 N S AY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”).

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بُونْسَاي (būnsāy) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Arabic: بُونْسَاي (bonsay) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Azerbaijani: bonsay — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Bulgarian: бонса́й (bonsáj) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Bulgarian: бонза́й (bonzáj) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Catalan: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 盆景 (pénjǐng) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 盆栽 (pénzāi) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Czech: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Czech: bonsaj — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Danish: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Danish: bonsaitræ — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Esperanto: bonsajo — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Finnish: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• French: bonsaï — a miniaturized tree or plant
• French: bonzaï — a miniaturized tree or plant
• German: Bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• German: Bonsaibaum — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Greek: μπονσάι (bonsái) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Hebrew: בּוֹנְסַאי (bónsay) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Hungarian: bonszai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Icelandic: dvergtré — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Indonesian: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Italian: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Japanese: 盆栽 (bonsai) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Korean: 분재 (bunjae) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Malay: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Marathi: बॉनसाई (bŏnsāī) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Polish: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Portuguese: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Russian: бонса́й (bonsáj) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Serbo-Croatian: бонсаи — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Serbo-Croatian: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Spanish: bonsái — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Swedish: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Swedish: bonsaiträd — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Telugu: మరుగుజ్జు చెట్టు (marugujju ceṭṭu) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Telugu: బోన్సాయి (bōnsāyi) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Thai: บอนไซ (bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Turkish: bonsai — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Turkish: bonsay — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Ukrainian: бонса́й (bonsáj) — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Vietnamese: bồn tài — a miniaturized tree or plant
• Bulgarian: бонса́й (bonsáj) — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Bulgarian: бонза́й (bonzáj) — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Danish: bonsai — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• French: bonsaï — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• French: bonzaï — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Indonesian: bonsai — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Japanese: 盆栽の技術 — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Malay: bonsai — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Marathi: बॉनसाई (bŏnsāī) — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Portuguese: bonsai — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants
• Thai: บอนไซ (bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai) — the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants