buttercup

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• UK: /ˈbʌt.ə.kʌp/
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• US: /ˈbʌt.ɚ.kʌp/
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 T ER0 K AH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From butter + cup. Both sense 1 and 2 are from the flowers' association with butter, from their yellow colour. Compare butterflower for a similar derivation; outside of English, compare Dutch boterbloem, German Butterblume.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَوْذَان (ḥawḏān) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Azerbaijani: qaymaqçiçəyi — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Bulgarian: лютиче (ljutiče) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Catalan: ranuncle — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Chinese Mandarin: 毛茛 (máogèn) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Chinese Mandarin: 金鳳花 /金凤花 (jīnfènghuā) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Czech: pryskyřník — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Dutch: boterbloem — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Esperanto: ranunkolo — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Faroese: sólja — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Finnish: leinikki — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• French: bouton-d'or — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• French: renoncule — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• French: grenouillette — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• French: fleur de l'impatience — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• French: gobet du diable — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Galician: ranúnculo — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Galician: botón de ouro — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Georgian: ბაია (baia) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• German: Hahnenfuß — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• German: Butterblume — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Greek: νεραγκούλα (neragkoúla) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Greek: ρεναγκούλα (renagkoúla) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Ancient Greek: βατράχιον (batrákhion) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Hebrew: נורית (nurít) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Hungarian: boglárka — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Icelandic: sóley — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Irish: crobh préacháin — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Irish: fearbán — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Italian: ranuncolo — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Japanese: キンポウゲ (kinpōge) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Japanese: 金鳳花 (kinpōge) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Kazakh: сарғалдақ (sarğaldaq) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Korean: 미나리아재비 (minariajaebi) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Latin: rānunculus — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Latin: gallīcrūs — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Lithuanian: vėdrynas — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Luxembourgish: Botterblumm — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Manx: cass feeagh — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: korikori — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: mārūrū — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: kōpukapuka — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: waoriki — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: raoriki — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: kōpukupuku — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Māori: kawariki — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Navajo: łéʼétsoh yiljaaʼí — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Norwegian Nynorsk: smørblom — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Persian: آلاله (âlâle) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Polish: jaskier — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Portuguese: ranúnculo — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Romanian: piciorul-cocoșului — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Romanian: gălbenea — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Russian: лю́тик (ljútik) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Scottish Gaelic: cearban — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Scottish Gaelic: buidheag-an-t-samhraidh — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Slovak: iskerník — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Spanish: ranúnculo — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Swedish: smörblomma — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Tibetan: ལྕེ་ཚ (lce tsha) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Turkish: düğün çiçeği — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Turkish: turnaayağı — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Turkish: sütlüce — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Ottoman Turkish: دوگون چیچكی (düğün çiçeği) — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Welsh: blodyn menyn — herb of the genus Ranunculus
• Welsh: crafanc y frân — herb of the genus Ranunculus