peony

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From Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lulegjake — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Albanian: bozhure — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Arabic: عُود الصَّلِيب (ʕūd aṣ-ṣalīb) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Arabic: فَاوَانِيَا (fāwāniyā) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Aramaic: ܦܐܘܢܝܐ — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Aramaic: ܦܘܢܝܐ — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Aramaic: ܥܷܣܒܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʕesbā kāhnāyā) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Aramaic: ܥܶܩܳܪܳܐ ܟܳܗܢܳܝܳܐ (ʿeqqārā kāhnāyā) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Armenian: քաջվարդ (kʻaǰvard) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Armenian: պիոն (pion) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Azerbaijani: pion — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Belarusian: піво́ня (pivónja) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Bulgarian: божу́р (božúr) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Catalan: peònia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Chechen: цӏен лерг (cʼen lerg) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Chinese Cantonese: 牡丹 (maau5 daan1; mau5 daan1) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Chinese Mandarin: 牡丹 (mǔdān) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Min Nan Chinese: 牡丹 (bó͘-tan) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Chuvash: пион (pion) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Crimean Tatar: şaqayıq — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Czech: pivoňka — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Danish: pæon — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Dutch: pioen — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Dutch: pioenroos — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Esperanto: peonio — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Estonian: pojeng — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Finnish: pioni — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• French: pivoine — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Galician: peonia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Georgian: იორდასალამი (iordasalami) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• German: Pfingstrose — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• German: Päonie — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Greek: παιωνία (paionía) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Ancient Greek: γλυκυσίδη (glukusídē) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Ancient Greek: ὀρόβαξ (oróbax) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Hebrew: אַדְמוֹנִית — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Hungarian: bazsarózsa — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Italian: peonia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Japanese: 牡丹 — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Japanese: ボタン (botan) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Kashubian: bùjón — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Kazakh: таушымылдық (tauşymyldyq) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Kazakh: шұғынық (şūğynyq) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Kazakh: сәлдегүл (säldegül) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Korean: 모란 (moran) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Kyrgyz: пион (pion) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Latin: paeōnia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Latvian: peonija — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Lithuanian: bijūnas — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Macedonian: божур (božur) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Mongolian: цээнэ цэцэг (ceene ceceg) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Norman: pâsse-rose — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Norwegian Nynorsk: peon — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Persian: صدتومانی — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Persian: پیونی — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Persian: پائونیا — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Polish: piwonia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Polish: peonia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Portuguese: peônia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Portuguese: peónia — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Romanian: bujor — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Russian: пио́н (pión) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̀жӯр — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Serbo-Croatian: bòžūr — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Slovak: pivonka — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Slovene: potonika — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Spanish: peonía — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Swedish: pion — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Tatar: пион (piyon) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Tatar: чалма чәчәк (çalma çäçäk) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Tatar: чалмабаш (çalmabaş) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Thai: โบตั๋น (boo-dtǎn) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Turkish: şakayık — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Ukrainian: піво́нія (pivónija) — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Uzbek: sallagul — Paeonia genus of flowering plants
• Vietnamese: mẫu đơn — Paeonia genus of flowering plants