forget-me-not

English

Forget-me-not

Etymology

Calque of German Vergissmeinnicht.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈɡɛt.mi.nɑt/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɡɛt.miː.nɒt/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

forget-me-not (plural forget-me-nots)

Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small 5-petalled blue flower.
(entomology) Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.

Translations

plant of the genus Myosotis

Armenian: անմոռուկ (hy) (anmoṙuk)
Azerbaijani: yaddaşçiçəyi
Basque: oroilore
Belarusian: незабудка f (nezabúdka)
Breton: daoulagad-ar-werc'hez
Bulgarian: незабравка f (nezabravka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勿忘草 (zh) (wùwàngcǎo), 勿忘我 (zh) (wùwàngcǎo)
Czech: pomněnka f
Danish: forglemmigej
Dutch: vergeet-me-niet f, vergeet-mij-niet (nl) f
Esperanto: neforgesumino
Estonian: lõosilm, meelespea (colloquial)
Faroese: gloymmegei f, hoylús f
Finnish: lemmikki (fi)
French: ne-m’oubliez-pas (fr) m, myosotis (fr) m
Galician: nonmesquezas (gl)
Georgian: კესანე (ḳesane), ცისანა (cisana)
German: Vergissmeinnicht (de) n
Greek: μη με λησμόνει (el) n (mi me lismónei)
Hungarian: nefelejcs (hu)
Icelandic: gleym-mér-ei (is) f
Irish: lus míonla m
Italian: nontiscordardimé m, miosotide f
Japanese: 勿忘草 (わすれなぐさ, wasurenagusa)
Kabardian: кърухугу (q̇rwx°g°)

Kazakh: ботакөз (botaköz)
Korean: 물망초 (ko) (mulmangcho) (勿忘草 (ko))
Latin: myosotis f
Latvian: neaizmirstule f
Lithuanian: neužmirštuõlė f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forglemmegei m

Nynorsk: minneblom m, forgløymmegei m
Ossetian: ма-рох-кӕн (ma-rox-kæn)
Polish: niezapominajka (pl) f, niezabudka (pl) f (borrowing)
Portuguese: não-me-esqueças m, miosótis (pt)
Romanian: nu-mă-uita (ro), miozotis (ro) m
Russian: незабу́дка (ru) f (nezabúdka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: незаборавак m

Roman: nezaboravak (sh) m
Slovak: nezábudka (sk) f
Slovene: spominčica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: njezapomničak m
Spanish: nomeolvides (es) f
Swedish: förgätmigej (sv)
Tatar: күгəрчен күзе (kügərçen küze)
Turkish: unutmabeni (tr)
Ukrainian: незабудка f (nezabúdka)
Welsh: nâd-fi'n angof
West Frisian: ferjit-my-net, forjit my net

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