flax

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• flăks
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• UK: /flaks/
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• Australia, US: /flæks/
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• New-Zealand: /flɛks/
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• homophone: flacks
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• nonstandard, obsolete: flĕks
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• nonstandard, obsolete: /flɛks/
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• homophone: flex
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• homophone: flecks
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From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Akkadian: 𒃰 (kitûm) — plant
• Albanian: li — plant
• Southern Altai: кӱдели (küdeli) — plant
• Southern Altai: кеден (keden) — plant
• Arabic: كَتَّان (kattān) — plant
• Arabic: كتان (kittān) — plant
• Arabic: كتان (kattān) — plant
• Aramaic: ܟܬܢܐ (/⁠kittānā⁠/) — plant
• Aramaic: ܟܝܬܢܐ (/⁠kittānā⁠/) — plant
• Aramaic: ܟܬܢܐ (kettānā) — plant
• Aramaic: ܩܛܘ (qeṭaw) — plant
• Aramaic: כִּיתָּנָא (kittānā) — plant
• Armenian: վուշ (vuš) — plant
• Old Armenian: վուշ (vuš) — plant
• Old Armenian: կտաւ (ktaw) — plant
• Aromanian: ljin — plant
• Azerbaijani: adi kətan — plant
• Basque: liho — plant
• Belarusian: лён (ljon) — plant
• Bengali: তিসি (tiśi) — plant
• Bulgarian: лен (len) — plant
• Catalan: lli — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 亞麻 /亚麻 (yàmá) — plant
• Czech: len — plant
• Danish: hør — plant
• Dutch: vlas — plant
• Erzya: сюс (śus) — plant
• Esperanto: lino — plant
• Estonian: lina — plant
• Faroese: lín — plant
• Faroese: hørur — plant
• Finnish: pellava — plant
• French: lin — plant
• Friulian: lin — plant
• Galician: liño — plant
• Georgian: სელი (seli) — plant
• German: Flachs — plant
• German: Lein — plant
• Swabian: Lãẽ — plant
• Greek: λινάρι (linári) — plant
• Ancient Greek: κάρπασος (kárpasos) — plant
• Ancient Greek: λίνον (línon) — plant
• Gujarati: અળસી (aḷsī) — plant
• Hebrew: פִּשְׁתָּן (pištā́n) — plant
• Hebrew: פִּשְׁתָּה (pištā́) — plant
• Hungarian: len — plant
• Icelandic: lín — plant
• Italian: lino — plant
• Japanese: 亜麻 (ama) — plant
• Kannada: ಅಗಸೆನಾರು (agasenāru) — plant
• Kazakh: зығыр (zyğyr) — plant
• Khmer: ការច្នៃ (kaacnay) — plant
• Korean: 아마 (ama) — plant
• Latgalian: lyns — plant
• Latin: līnum — plant
• Latvian: lins — plant
• Lithuanian: linas — plant
• Low German: Flass — plant
• Macedonian: лен (len) — plant
• Malay: flaks — plant
• Middle English: flax — plant
• Mongolian: маалинга (maalinga) — plant
• Norman: lîn — plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: lin — plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: hør — plant
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lin — plant
• Occitan: lin — plant
• Old English: fleax — plant
• Persian: کتان (katân) — plant
• Persian: وش (vaš) — plant
• Persian: زغر (zeġer) — plant
• Polish: len — plant
• Portuguese: linho — plant
• Punic: 𐤐𐤔𐤕 (pišt) — plant
• Romanian: in — plant
• Russian: лён (ljon) — plant
• Sanskrit: उमा (umā) — plant
• Sardinian: linu — plant
• Scots: lint — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: ла̏н — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: lȁn — plant
• Slovak: ľan — plant
• Slovene: lan — plant
• Lower Sorbian: lan — plant
• Spanish: lino — plant
• Sumerian: 𒃰 (gada) — plant
• Swedish: lin — plant
• Tabasaran: гиниб (ginib) — plant
• Tamil: ஆளி (āḷi) — plant
• Turkish: keten — plant
• Ottoman Turkish: كتان (kettan) — plant
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎉 (qṭ) — plant
• Ukrainian: льон (lʹon) — plant
• Uzbek: zigʻir — plant
• Vietnamese: lanh — plant
• Volapük: linum — plant
• Welsh: llin — plant
• Arabic: كَتّان (kattān) — the fibers
• Bulgarian: лен (len) — the fibers
• Catalan: lli — the fibers
• Dutch: vlas — the fibers
• Finnish: pellava — the fibers
• French: lin — the fibers
• Galician: liño — the fibers
• Galician: freba — the fibers
• German: Flachs — the fibers
• German: Flachsfaser — the fibers
• German: Leinen — the fibers
• Greek: λινάρι (linári) — the fibers
• Ancient Greek: λίνον (línon) — the fibers
• Gujarati: અળસી (aḷsī) — the fibers
• Italian: lino — the fibers
• Kannada: ಅಗಸೆನಾರು (agasenāru) — the fibers
• Latvian: lini — the fibers
• Macedonian: лен (len) — the fibers
• Norman: lîn — the fibers
• Norwegian Bokmål: lin — the fibers
• Norwegian Bokmål: hør — the fibers
• Persian: کتان (katân) — the fibers
• Polish: len — the fibers
• Portuguese: filaça — the fibers
• Romanian: in — the fibers
• Russian: лён (ljon) — the fibers
• Lower Sorbian: lan — the fibers
• Spanish: lino — the fibers
• Swedish: lin — the fibers
• Tagalog: sulid — the fibers
• Ukrainian: льон (lʹon) — the fibers
• Vietnamese: lanh — the fibers