soapwort

English

Etymology

soap +‎ wort, from the soapy matter formed when the leaves are agitated in water.

Noun

soapwort (countable and uncountable, plural soapworts)

Any perennial herb of the genus Saponaria.

Translations

herb

Arabic: عَصْلَج‎ m (ʿaṣlaj)
Armenian: փրփրիկ (hy) (pʿrpʿrik), օճառախոտ (hy) (ōčaṙaxot)
Azerbaijani: sabunotu
Basque: xaboi-belar
Belarusian: мыльнік m (mylʹnik)
Breton: louzaouenn-ar-soavon f
Catalan: saponària f
Corsican: sapunella f
Czech: mydlice f
Danish: sæbeurt c
Dutch: zeepkruid (nl) n
Erzya: сапонькай (saponʹkaj)
Esperanto: saponario
Finnish: suopayrtit (fi)
French: saponaire (fr) f
Friulian: savonarie f
Galician: saponaria (gl) f, xaboeira (gl) f
Georgian: საპონა (saṗona)
German: Seifenkraut n
Hungarian: szappanfű (hu)
Ido: saponario (io)

Irish: garbhán creagach m
Italian: saponaria (it) f
Japanese: サポナリア (saponaria)
Kazakh: сабыншөп (sabınşöp), сабыншөп (sabınşöp)
Latvian: ziepjusakne f
Lithuanian: putoklis m
Neapolitan: sapunella f
Ossetian: сапонгӕрдӕг (sapongærdæg)
Persian: صابونی‎ (fa)
Polish: mydlnica f
Portuguese: saponária f
Romanian: odagaci (ro) m, ciuin (ro) m, săpunariță (ro) f
Russian: мыльня́нка (ru) f (mylʹnjánka), сапона́рия (ru) f (saponárija)
Slovak: mydlica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mydłowina f

Upper Sorbian: mydlica f
Spanish: saponaria f, jabonaria f
Swedish: såpnejlika c
Ukrainian: мильнянка f (mylʹnjanka)

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