woad

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• Received-Pronunciation: /wəʊd/
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• General-American: /woʊd/
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• rhymes with -əʊd
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From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydh-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وَسْمَة (wasma) — Isatis tinctoria
• Arabic: سُدُوس (sudūs) — Isatis tinctoria
• Aramaic: ܩܳܢܥܴܐ (/⁠qānəʿā⁠/) — Isatis tinctoria
• Aramaic: ܐܝܣܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/) — Isatis tinctoria
• Aramaic: ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ (/⁠*ʾīsāṭēs⁠/) — Isatis tinctoria
• Breton: glizin-Gwaskogn — Isatis tinctoria
• Bulgarian: сърпица (sǎrpica) — Isatis tinctoria
• Catalan: herba del pastell — Isatis tinctoria
• Chinese: 菘藍 /菘蓝 — Isatis tinctoria
• Czech: boryt — Isatis tinctoria
• Danish: vajd — Isatis tinctoria
• Dutch: wede — Isatis tinctoria
• Finnish: morsinko — Isatis tinctoria
• Finnish: värimorsinko — Isatis tinctoria
• French: guède — Isatis tinctoria
• German: Färberwaid — Isatis tinctoria
• German: Waid — Isatis tinctoria
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌰 — Isatis tinctoria
• Ancient Greek: ἰσάτις (isátis) — Isatis tinctoria
• Hebrew: אִיסָטִיס (ʾīsāṭēs) — Isatis tinctoria
• Hungarian: festő csülleng — Isatis tinctoria
• Irish: glaisin — Isatis tinctoria
• Irish: vód — Isatis tinctoria
• Italian: guado — Isatis tinctoria
• Italian: glasto — Isatis tinctoria
• Japanese: 細葉大青 (hosoba taisei) — Isatis tinctoria
• Latin: glastum — Isatis tinctoria
• Latin: isatis — Isatis tinctoria
• Old East Slavic: синило (sinilo) — Isatis tinctoria
• Old English: wād — Isatis tinctoria
• Persian: وسمه (vasme) — Isatis tinctoria
• Persian: کتم (kotm) — Isatis tinctoria
• Persian: برگ نیل (barg-e nīl) — Isatis tinctoria
• Polish: urzet — Isatis tinctoria
• Polish: siniło — Isatis tinctoria
• Portuguese: pastel-dos-tintureiros — Isatis tinctoria
• Romanian: drobușor — Isatis tinctoria
• Russian: ва́йда (vájda) — Isatis tinctoria
• Russian: сини́ло (sinílo) — Isatis tinctoria
• Russian: сини́льник (sinílʹnik) — Isatis tinctoria
• Scottish Gaelic: guirmean — Isatis tinctoria
• Serbo-Croatian: са̏ч — Isatis tinctoria
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̏бо̄внӣк — Isatis tinctoria
• Serbo-Croatian: sȁč — Isatis tinctoria
• Serbo-Croatian: vȑbōvnīk — Isatis tinctoria
• Slovak: farbovník — Isatis tinctoria
• Slovene: sílina — Isatis tinctoria
• Slovene: oblȃjst — Isatis tinctoria
• Upper Sorbian: sywina — Isatis tinctoria
• Spanish: yerba pastel — Isatis tinctoria
• Spanish: glasto — Isatis tinctoria
• Swedish: vejde — Isatis tinctoria
• Ukrainian: сини́льник (synýlʹnyk) — Isatis tinctoria
• Welsh: llysiau lliw — Isatis tinctoria
• Welsh: glaslys — Isatis tinctoria
• Catalan: glast — blue dye made from the plant
• Dutch: wede — blue dye made from the plant
• French: pastel — blue dye made from the plant
• Irish: vód — blue dye made from the plant
• Scottish Gaelic: guirmean — blue dye made from the plant