carnation

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From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown. By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -ate + -ion.

122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 粉紅色的 /粉红色的 (fěnhóngsè de) — colour
• Dutch: carnatie — colour
• Dutch: vleeskleurig — colour
• Finnish: heleänpunainen — colour
• French: incarnat — colour
• Romanian: roz — colour
• Russian: теле́сный (telésnyj) — colour
• Albanian: karafil — plant
• Arabic: قَرَنْفُل (qaranful) — plant
• Arabic: قُرُنْفُل (gurunful) — plant
• Arabic: قرنفل (qrunful, qranful) — plant
• Armenian: մեխակ (mexak) — plant
• Armenian: ղարանֆիլ (ġaranfil) — plant
• Basque: krabelin — plant
• Bulgarian: карамфил (karamfil) — plant
• Catalan: clavell — plant
• Catalan: clavellina — plant
• Chinese: 剪絨花 /剪绒花 (chián-jiông-hoe) — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 康乃馨 (kāngnǎixīn) — plant
• Czech: karafiát — plant
• Czech: hvozdík — plant
• Danish: nellike — plant
• Dutch: anjer — plant
• Dutch: anjelier — plant
• Dutch: genoffel — plant
• Esperanto: dianto — plant
• Faroese: nelikur — plant
• Finnish: tarhaneilikka — plant
• French: œillet — plant
• Galician: caraveleira — plant
• Galician: caravel — plant
• German: Gartennelke — plant
• German: Nelke — plant
• Greek: γαρυφαλλιά (garyfalliá) — plant
• Italian: garofano — plant
• Kazakh: қалампыр (qalampyr) — plant
• Korean: 카네이션 (kaneisyeon) — plant
• Lithuanian: gvazdikas — plant
• Macedonian: каранфил (karanfil) — plant
• Maltese: qronfol — plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: nellik — plant
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nellik — plant
• Polish: goździk — plant
• Portuguese: cravo — plant
• Romanian: garoafă — plant
• Russian: гвозди́ка (gvozdíka) — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: каранфил — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: karanfil — plant
• Spanish: clavel — plant
• Tagalog: klabel — plant
• Turkish: karanfil — plant
• Ottoman Turkish: قرنفل (karanfil) — plant
• Ukrainian: гвоздика (hvozdyka) — plant
• Vietnamese: cẩm chướng — plant
• Volapük: kariof — plant
• Volapük: diant — plant
• Volapük: plümadiant — plant
• Yiddish: נעגעלע (negele) — plant
• Yiddish: גוואָזדיקע (gvozdike) — plant
• Afrikaans: angelier — flower
• Arabic: قَرَنْفُل (qaranful) — flower
• Arabic: قُرُنْفُل (gurunful) — flower
• Armenian: մեխակ (mexak) — flower
• Bulgarian: карамфил (karamfil) — flower
• Burmese: ဇော်မွှား (jauhmwa:) — flower
• Catalan: clavell — flower
• Chinese Cantonese: 康乃馨 (hong1 naai5 hing1) — flower
• Chinese: 剪絨花 /剪绒花 (chián-jiông-hoe) — flower
• Chinese Mandarin: 康乃馨 (kāngnǎixīn) — flower
• Czech: karafiát — flower
• Danish: nellike — flower
• Dutch: anjer — flower
• Dutch: anjelier — flower
• Esperanto: dianto — flower
• Estonian: nelk — flower
• Faroese: nelikur — flower
• Finnish: neilikka — flower
• French: œillet — flower
• Galician: caravel — flower
• German: Nelke — flower
• German: Nägeli — flower
• Greek: γαρύφαλλο (garýfallo) — flower
• Hebrew: צִפֹּרֶן (tzippóren) — flower
• Hungarian: szegfű — flower
• Indonesian: bunga anyelir — flower
• Indonesian: bunga teluki — flower
• Italian: garofano — flower
• Japanese: カーネーション (kānēshon) — flower
• Korean: 카네이션 (kaneisyeon) — flower
• Macedonian: каранфил (karanfil) — flower
• Malay: bunga teluki — flower
• Māori: kāneihana — flower
• Māori: kanehana — flower
• Mòcheno: nagel — flower
• Nogai: калемпир (kalempir) — flower
• Norwegian Bokmål: nellik — flower
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nellik — flower
• Pannonian Rusyn: гвоздзик (hvozdzik) — flower
• Persian: میخک (mixak) — flower
• Polish: goździk — flower
• Portuguese: cravo — flower
• Romanian: garoafă — flower
• Russian: гвозди́ка (gvozdíka) — flower
• Serbo-Croatian: каранфил — flower
• Serbo-Croatian: karanfil — flower
• Slovak: hrebíček — flower
• Spanish: clavel — flower
• Swedish: nejlika — flower
• Tagalog: klabel — flower
• Thai: คาร์เนชั่น (kaa-nee-chân) — flower
• Turkish: karanfil — flower
• Venetan: garòfoło — flower
• Vietnamese: cẩm chướng — flower
• Volapük: kariofaflor — flower
• Yiddish: נעגעלע (negele) — flower
• Yiddish: גוואָזדיקע (gvozdike) — flower
• Chinese Mandarin: 粉紅色 /粉红色 (fěnhóngsè) — rosy pink colour
• Dutch: carnatie — rosy pink colour
• Dutch: vleeskleur — rosy pink colour
• Finnish: neilikanpunainen — rosy pink colour
• French: incarnat — rosy pink colour
• Russian: теле́сный (telésnyj) — rosy pink colour