name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dahlia
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ.li.ə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɑː.li.ə/
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General-American: /ˈdæl.jə/
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General-American: /ˈdɑl.jə/
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General-American: /ˈdeɪl.jə/
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rhymes with -eɪliə
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rhymes with -ɑːliə
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rhymes with -æliə
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CMU ARPABET: D AE1 L Y AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Dahlia pinnata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flower
History
Etymology
From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.
Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دَالِيَّا (dāliyyā) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Armenian: գեորգենի (georgeni) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Armenian: գեորգին (georgin) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Bengali: ডালিয়া (ḍaliẏa) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Bulgarian: далия (dalija) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Bulgarian: гергина (gergina) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Burmese: ဒေလီယာ (deliya) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Catalan: dàlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Chinese Mandarin: 大麗花 /大丽花 (dàlìhuā) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Chinese Mandarin: 大理花 (dàlǐhuā) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Chinese Mandarin: 天竺牡丹 (tiānzhú mǔdān) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Czech: jiřina — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Danish: georgine — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Danish: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Dutch: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Esperanto: dalio — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Estonian: daalia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Faroese: georgina — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Finnish: daalia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- French: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Friulian: dalie — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Georgian: გეორგინა (georgina) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- German: Dahlie — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Greek: ντάλια (ntália) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Hawaiian: waiohinu — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Hungarian: dália — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Icelandic: dalía — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Icelandic: glitfífill — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Ido: dalio — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Ido: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Indonesian: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Ingrian: georgiini — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Irish: dáilia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Italian: dalia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Japanese: ダリア (daria) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Japanese: 天竺牡丹 (tenjikubotan) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Kazakh: нарғызгүл (narğyzgül) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Korean: 다알리아속 (daalliasok) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Lithuanian: jurginas — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Macedonian: георгина (georgina) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Māori: teiria — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Norwegian Bokmål: georgine — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Norwegian Bokmål: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: georgine — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Occitan: dalià — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Polish: dalia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Polish: georginia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Portuguese: dália — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Romanian: dalie — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Romanian: gherghină — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Russian: георги́н (georgín) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Samogitian: jorgėns — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Slovak: georgína — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Slovene: dalija — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Spanish: dalia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Swedish: dahlia — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Tagalog: dalya — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Tajik: гули кавкаб (gul-i kavkab) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Tajik: кавкаб (kavkab) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Thai: รักเร่ (rák-rêe) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Turkish: yıldız çiçeği — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Ottoman Turkish: یلدز چیچكی (yıldız çiçeği) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Ukrainian: жоржи́на (žoržýna) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Urdu: ڈہلیا (ḍahliyā) — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Vietnamese: thược dược — any plant of the genus Dahlia
- Volapük: daliad — any plant of the genus Dahlia
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