name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
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Standard Lemma guide
daisy
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/ˈdeɪzi/
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UK: /ˈdeɪ.zi/
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CMU ARPABET: D EY1 Z IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A common name for a cow.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
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name
Meaning 4
Acronym of Digital Accessible Information System, an XML-based open standard for people whose disability makes it difficult to read print.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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noun
Meaning 5
A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
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noun
Meaning 7
A boot or other footwear.
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Usage: Cockney, slang
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noun
Meaning 8
Something splendid; a doozy.
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Usage: colloquial
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noun
Meaning 9
A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
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noun
Meaning 10
any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl
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Broader terms: flower
Narrower terms: common daisy, English daisy, Bellis perennis
History
Etymology
From the flower daisy, one of the flower names dating from the 19th century. Also a nickname for Margaret, since Marguerite and Margarita are identical with the French and Spanish word for "daisy".
Three possible origins: * Americanized form of a French habitational surname, from either of two places called Aisy. * Variant of the Irish surname Dacey. * From the flower name, probably used as a nickname.
From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.
Named after Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low.
Across languages
Translations
130 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 黛西 (Dàixī) — female given name
- Dutch: Margriet — female given name
- Dutch: Madelief — female given name
- Japanese: デイジー (Deijī) — female given name
- Korean: 데이지 (Deiji) — female given name
- Russian: Де́йзи (Dɛ́jzi) — female given name
- Spanish: Margarita — female given name
- Abkhaz: адәыкакаҷ (adwəkʼakʼačʼ) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: margaritë — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: luleshqerrë — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule delme (tosk) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule dele (gheg) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule kacidhe — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule buke (Pogradec) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule dhensh (Elbasan) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: lule dheshë (Vuthaj) — Bellis perennis
- Albanian: luledele — Bellis perennis
- Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān) — Bellis perennis
- Armenian: մարգարտածաղիկ (margartacaġik) — Bellis perennis
- Azerbaijani: qızçiçəyi — Bellis perennis
- Basque: basabitxilorea — Bellis perennis
- Basque: txiribita — Bellis perennis
- Belarusian: стакротка (stakrótka) — Bellis perennis
- Bulgarian: паричка (parička) — Bellis perennis
- Bulgarian: маргаритка (margaritka) — Bellis perennis
- Burmese: ဒေစီ (deci) — Bellis perennis
- Catalan: margaridoia perenne — Bellis perennis
- Catalan: margaridoia — Bellis perennis
- Chinese Cantonese: 雛菊 /雏菊 (co1 guk1) — Bellis perennis
- Chinese Mandarin: 雛菊 /雏菊 (chújú) — Bellis perennis
- Chinese Mandarin: 延命菊 (yánmìngjú) — Bellis perennis
- Cornish: egor Duw — Bellis perennis
- Czech: sedmikráska chudobka — Bellis perennis
- Danish: tusindfryd — Bellis perennis
- Dutch: madeliefje — Bellis perennis
- Esperanto: lekanto — Bellis perennis
- Estonian: harilik kirikakar — Bellis perennis
- Faroese: summardái — Bellis perennis
- Finnish: kaunokainen — Bellis perennis
- Finnish: tuhatkauno — Bellis perennis
- French: pâquerette — Bellis perennis
- French: marguerite — Bellis perennis
- Galician: gamarza — Bellis perennis
- Galician: magarza — Bellis perennis
- Galician: margarida — Bellis perennis
- Georgian: ზიზილა (zizila) — Bellis perennis
- German: Gänseblümchen — Bellis perennis
- German: Tausendschönchen — Bellis perennis
- German: Tagesauge — Bellis perennis
- Greek: μαργαρίτα (margaríta) — Bellis perennis
- Hebrew: חִנָּנִית (ẖinanít) — Bellis perennis
- Hindi: गुलबहार (gulabhār) — Bellis perennis
- Hungarian: százszorszép — Bellis perennis
- Icelandic: fagurfífill — Bellis perennis
- Ido: margriteto — Bellis perennis
- Irish: nóinín — Bellis perennis
- Italian: pratolina — Bellis perennis
- Italian: margheritina — Bellis perennis
- Japanese: 雛菊 (hinagiku) — Bellis perennis
- Japanese: 延命菊 (enmeigiku) — Bellis perennis
- Khmer: ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (pkaa chuuk roatta) — Bellis perennis
- Korean: 데이지 (deiji) — Bellis perennis
- Northern Kurdish: beybûn — Bellis perennis
- Lao: ດອກກ້ານກ່ອງ (dǭk kān kǭng) — Bellis perennis
- Latvian: mārpuķīte — Bellis perennis
- Latvian: ilggadīgā mārpuķīte — Bellis perennis
- Laz: loresima — Bellis perennis
- Limburgish: bleikblom — Bellis perennis
- Lithuanian: saulutė — Bellis perennis
- Lithuanian: daugiametė saulutė — Bellis perennis
- Luxembourgish: Margréitchen — Bellis perennis
- Norman: amouroque — Bellis perennis
- Norman: pâquerette — Bellis perennis
- Norn: kokkeluri — Bellis perennis
- Norwegian Bokmål: tusenfryd — Bellis perennis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tusenfryd — Bellis perennis
- Occitan: margarida — Bellis perennis
- Old English: dæġes ēage — Bellis perennis
- Pannonian Rusyn: ґрайцарики (grajcariki) — Bellis perennis
- Pannonian Rusyn: искирички (iskirički) — Bellis perennis
- Pannonian Rusyn: красавец (krasavec) — Bellis perennis
- Pannonian Rusyn: марґитка (margitka) — Bellis perennis
- Pannonian Rusyn: яново квеце (janovo kvece) — Bellis perennis
- Plautdietsch: Gaunsebloom — Bellis perennis
- Polish: stokrotka — Bellis perennis
- Portuguese: margarida — Bellis perennis
- Romanian: bănuț — Bellis perennis
- Romanian: părăluță — Bellis perennis
- Romanian: bănuțel — Bellis perennis
- Russian: маргари́тка (margarítka) — Bellis perennis
- Scottish Gaelic: neòinean — Bellis perennis
- Serbo-Croatian: tràtīnčica — Bellis perennis
- Serbo-Croatian: bȇla ráda — Bellis perennis
- Slovak: sedmokráska — Bellis perennis
- Slovene: marjética — Bellis perennis
- Spanish: margarita común — Bellis perennis
- Spanish: chiribita — Bellis perennis
- Swahili: kibibimlima — Bellis perennis
- Swedish: tusensköna — Bellis perennis
- Tagalog: butonsilyo — Bellis perennis
- Thai: เดซี (dee-sîi) — Bellis perennis
- Turkish: papatya — Bellis perennis
- Turkish: yoğurt çiçeği — Bellis perennis
- Ukrainian: маргари́тка (marharýtka) — Bellis perennis
- Vietnamese: hoa cúc — Bellis perennis
- Vietnamese: hoa cúc mâm xôi — Bellis perennis
- Welsh: llygad y dydd — Bellis perennis
- Yiddish: מאַרגאַריטקע (margaritke) — Bellis perennis
- Bulgarian: пари́чка (paríčka) — commonly used term for related flowers
- Bulgarian: маргари́тка (margarítka) — commonly used term for related flowers
- Catalan: margarida — commonly used term for related flowers
- Cornish: caja — commonly used term for related flowers
- Dutch: margriet — commonly used term for related flowers
- Finnish: päivänkakkara (oxeye daisy) — commonly used term for related flowers
- French: marguerite — commonly used term for related flowers
- German: Tagesauge — commonly used term for related flowers
- Italian: margherita — commonly used term for related flowers
- Kazakh: дәстүргүл (dästürgül) — commonly used term for related flowers
- Laz: loresima — commonly used term for related flowers
- Māori: parani — commonly used term for related flowers
- Norwegian: margaritt — commonly used term for related flowers
- Old English: dæġes ēage — commonly used term for related flowers
- Portuguese: margarida — commonly used term for related flowers
- Romanian: margaretă — commonly used term for related flowers
- Spanish: margarita — commonly used term for related flowers
- Swahili: jaja — commonly used term for related flowers
- Swedish: prästkrage — commonly used term for related flowers
- Turkish: papatya — commonly used term for related flowers
- Welsh: llygad y dydd — commonly used term for related flowers
- Welsh: llygad — commonly used term for related flowers
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