name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
roselle
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: /ɹəʊˈzɛl/
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General-American: /ɹoʊˈzɛl/
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name
Meaning 2
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A borough of Union County, New Jersey, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Hibiscus sabdariffa, an edible flower in the hibiscus family used to make hibiscus tea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- I planted some roselle in the garden so I can start making my own hibiscus tea instead of relying on processed agua de jaimaica powders.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bissap, jamaica, putwa, Guinea sorrel, red sorrel, sorrel
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hibiscus
History
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps an alteration or misapprehension of French oseille denoting this plant, specific use of oseille sorrel; perhaps compare also sorrel.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كركديه (karkadē) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Bambara: da — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Bambara: dabilen — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Burmese: ချဉ်ပေါင် (hkyanypaung) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Chinese Cantonese: 洛神花 (lok6 san4 faa1) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- French: oseille de Guinée — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Fula: follere — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- German: Hibiskus — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- German: Roselle — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- German: Afrikanische Malve — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Hausa: soɓarodo — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Indonesian: rosela — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Indonesian: rosella — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Italian: carcadè — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Japanese: ローゼル (rōzeru) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Lao: ສົ້ມພໍດີ (som phǭ dī) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Mon: ဂစေပ် (gacep) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Nupe: èmagi — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Portuguese: vinagreira — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Portuguese: rosela — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Portuguese: azedinha — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Portuguese: caruru-azedo — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Portuguese: baguiche — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Romanian: trandafirul de Abisinia — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Shan: ၽၵ်းသူမ်ႈပူ (phák sūum pǔu) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Shan: သူမ်ႈပူ (sūum pǔu) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Spanish: jamaica — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Thai: กระเจี๊ยบเปรี้ยว — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Thai: กระเจี๊ยบแดง — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Thai: กระเจี๊ยบ (grà-jíiap) — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Vietnamese: cây quế mầu — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Vietnamese: cây bụp giấm — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Vietnamese: cây bụt giấm — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Welsh: suran goch — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Wolof: bisaab — Hibiscus sabdariffa
- Yoruba: ìṣápá — Hibiscus sabdariffa
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