rosemary

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊzməɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊzˌmɛːɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛəɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈɹoʊzməɹi/
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• homophone: Rosemarie (non-US)
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• UK: /ˈɹəʊzməɹi/
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• US: /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛəɹi/
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 Z M EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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A combination of Rose + Mary, referring to the flower as a symbol of Virgin Mary, first recorded in the eighteenth century. It is found in continental Europe as Rosemarie and Rosa Maria. After mid-nineteenth century when flower names became common it may also refer to the herb rosemary, Latin ros marinus "dew of the sea".

From Middle English rosmary, rosemarye, alteration (based on rose + Mary) of earlier Middle English rosmarine, rosemaryn, partly from Old French rosmarin, partly directly from Latin rōsmarīnus (“rosemary”), from rōs (“dew, moisture”) + marīnus (“marine, of the sea”). Displaced native Old English boþen.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِكْلِيل اَلْجَبَل (ʔiklīl al-jabal) — female given name
• Arabic: روزماري (rozmari) — female given name
• French: Rose-Marie — female given name
• German: Rosemarie — female given name
• Italian: Mariarosa — female given name
• Polish: Rosemary — female given name
• Russian: Ро́змари (Rózmari) — female given name
• Swedish: Rose-Marie — female given name
• Swedish: Ros-Marie — female given name
• Amharic: ሮዝሚር (rozmir) — shrub
• Arabic: إِكْلِيل الْغَار (ʔiklīl al-ḡār) — shrub
• Arabic: إِكْلِيل الْجَبَل (ʔiklīl al-jabal) — shrub
• Arabic: ضِرْم ضَيِّق الْأَوْرَاق (ḍirm ḍayyiq al-ʔawrāq) — shrub
• Algerian Arabic: ازير (azir) — shrub
• Arabic: حصالبان (ḥaṣalbān) — shrub
• Arabic: روزماري (rōzmāri) — shrub
• Arabic: إكليل الجبل (ʔiklīl al-jabal) — shrub
• Arabic: يزير (yəzir) — shrub
• Armenian: հազրեվարդ (hazrevard) — shrub
• Asturian: romeru — shrub
• Basque: erromero — shrub
• Bulgarian: розмари́н (rozmarín) — shrub
• Catalan: romaní — shrub
• Catalan: romer — shrub
• Chinese Cantonese: 迷迭香 (mai4 dit6 hoeng1) — shrub
• Chinese Mandarin: 迷迭香 (mídiéxiāng) — shrub
• Czech: rozmarýn — shrub
• Czech: rozmarýna lékařská — shrub
• Dacian: dracontos — shrub
• Dalmatian: lusmarin — shrub
• Danish: rosmarin — shrub
• Dutch: rozemarijn — shrub
• Esperanto: rosmareno — shrub
• Estonian: harilik rosmariin — shrub
• Estonian: rosmariin — shrub
• Finnish: rosmariini — shrub
• French: romarin — shrub
• Friulian: osmarìn — shrub
• Galician: romeu — shrub
• German: Rosmarin — shrub
• Greek: δενδρολίβανο (dendrolívano) — shrub
• Ancient Greek: δενδρολίβανον (dendrolíbanon) — shrub
• Ancient Greek: ψωρανθεμίς (psōranthemís) — shrub
• Hebrew: רוזמרין (rozmarin) — shrub
• Hindi: गुलमेंहदी (gulamẽhadī) — shrub
• Hungarian: rozmaring — shrub
• Hunsrik: Rosmarein — shrub
• Icelandic: rósmarín — shrub
• Indonesian: rosemary — shrub
• Indonesian: rosmarin — shrub
• Irish: marós — shrub
• Italian: rosmarino — shrub
• Italian: ramerino — shrub
• Japanese: ローズマリー (rōzumarī) — shrub
• Japanese: 迷迭香 (mannenrō) — shrub
• Kabuverdianu: alekrin — shrub
• Korean: 로즈메리 (rojeumeri) — shrub
• Latin: rōsmarīnus — shrub
• Latvian: rozmarīns — shrub
• Lombard: rósmarin — shrub
• Lombard: üsmarin — shrub
• Luxembourgish: Rousemaräin — shrub
• Macedonian: рузмарин (ruzmarin) — shrub
• Mirandese: rusmenino — shrub
• Mirandese: rosmanino — shrub
• Norman: romathîn — shrub
• Norwegian Bokmål: rosmarin — shrub
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rosmarin — shrub
• Occitan: romanin — shrub
• Pannonian Rusyn: розмария (rozmarija) — shrub
• Pannonian Rusyn: розмаринґ (rozmaring) — shrub
• Persian: رزماری (rozmâri) — shrub
• Persian: اکلیل کوهی (eklil-e kuhi) — shrub
• Polish: rozmaryn — shrub
• Polish: rozmaryn lekarski — shrub
• Portuguese: alecrim — shrub
• Romanian: rozmarin — shrub
• Russian: розмари́н (rozmarín) — shrub
• Sardinian: romasinu — shrub
• Sardinian: zippiri — shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: рузмарин — shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: ружмарин — shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: ruzmarin — shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: ružmarin — shrub
• Sicilian: rosamarina — shrub
• Sicilian: rosmarina — shrub
• Slovak: rozmarín — shrub
• Slovene: rožmarin — shrub
• Spanish: romero — shrub
• Spanish: rosmarino — shrub
• Swedish: rosmarin — shrub
• Tagalog: romero — shrub
• Tashelhit: azir — shrub
• Thai: โรสแมรี่ (rôht maerêe) — shrub
• Turkish: biberiye — shrub
• Turkish: baytaran — shrub
• Venetan: rosmarin — shrub
• Venetan: sgolmarin — shrub
• Vietnamese: hương thảo — shrub
• Walloon: rômarin — shrub
• Welsh: rhos Mair — shrub
• Yiddish: ראָזמאַרין (rozmarin) — shrub