# lotus
## English
### Alternative forms

* lotos (dated)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Doublet of lote. First attested in the 1540s

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈloʊtəs/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈləʊtəs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊtəs

### Noun

lotus (plural lotuses or loti)
* A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
* A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India. [from 1580s]
* A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.
* A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
** Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.
** Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches.
** Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.
* An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.
* Short for lotus position. [from 1848]
** 1979, Charlie King, “Vaguely Reminiscent of the Sixties (The Story)”:Since the '60s ended abruptly on January 1, 1970, everyone, protestors, police and all, fell to the ground in a full lotus.

#### Derived terms

* American lotus (Nelumbo lutea)
* blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea)
* Egyptian lotus (Egyptian water lily)
* honey-lotus
* honey lotus
* Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
* lotus birth
* lotus-eater
* lotus eater
* lotus-eating
* lotus effect
* lotus foot
* lotus jujube (Ziziphus lotus)
* lotus land
* lotus nut
* lotus position
* lotus root
* lotus seed
* lotus shoe
* lotustree (Ziziphus lotus)
* sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
* snow lotus (Saussurea involucrata)
* star lotus (Nymphaea nouchali)
* white lotus (Nymphaea lotus)
* yellow lotus (Nelumbo lutea)

#### Translations

Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: نَيْلُوفَر m (naylūfar)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: լոտոս (hy) (lotos)
Assamese: পদুম (podum)
Belarusian: ло́тас m (lótas)
Bengali: পদ্ম (bn) (podmo)
Bikol Central: takay
Bulgarian: ло́тос (bg) m (lótos)
Burmese: ကြာ (my) (kra), ကြာပန်း (krapan:)
Buryat: бадма (badma)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蓮花 / 莲花 (lin$^4$ faa$^1$)
Hokkien: 蓮花 / 莲花 (zh-min-nan) (liân-hue), 蓮 / 莲 (liân)
Mandarin: 蓮 / 莲 (zh) (lián), 蓮花 / 莲花 (zh) (liánhuā)
Czech: lotos (cs) m
Dutch: lotus (nl) m
Egyptian: (zšn)
Estonian: lootos
Faroese: lotusblóma f
Finnish: lootus (fi)
French: lotus (fr) m
Galician: loto m
Georgian: ლოტოსი (loṭosi)
German: Hornklee (de) m, Lotos (de) m, Lotosblume f, Lotus (de) m
Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós)
Ancient: λωτός m (lōtós)
Hebrew: לוֹטוּס m (lotus)
Hindi: कमल (hi) m (kamal), पद्म (hi) m (padma)
Hungarian: lótusz (hu)
Icelandic: lótus m, lótusblóm (is) n
Indonesian: bunga seroja
Irish: loiteog f
Italian: loto (it) m
Japanese: ロータス (rōtasu), 蓮 (ja) (はす, hasu)
Kalmyk: бадм (badm)
Kannada: ಕಮಲ (kn) (kamala)
Kazakh: лотос (lotos)
Khmer: ផ្កាឈូក (km) (phkaa chuuk)
Korean: 연(蓮) (ko) (yeon), 련 (ko) (ryeon) (North Korea), 로터스 (roteoseu)
Lao: ດອກບົວ (dǭk būa)
Latin: lotus n
Lithuanian: lotosas m
Lü: ᦡᦸᧅᧈᦷᦢ (ḋoak¹ḃo)
Macedonian: лотос m (lotos)
Malagasy: lota (mg)
Malay: teratai (ms), seroja
Malayalam: താമര (ml) (tāmara)
Marathi: कमळ m (kamaḷ)
Mongolian: лянхуа (mn) (ljanxua)
Old Uyghur: 𐾁𐽶𐽺𐽲𐽳𐽰 (lénhua)
Persian: نیلوفر آبی (fa) (nilufar-e âbi), لوتوس (lotus)
Polish: lotos (pl) m
Portuguese: lótus (pt) m, flor de lótus f
Punjabi: ਕਮਲ (pa) m (kamal), ਕੌਲ m (kaul)
Romanian: lotus (ro) m
Russian: ло́тос (ru) m (lótos)
Sanskrit: कमल (sa) m (kamala), पद्म (sa) m or n (padma)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: локвањ m, ло̏тос m
Roman: lokvanj (sh) m, lȍtos (sh) m
Sinhalese: නෙළුම් (si) (neḷum)
Slovak: lotos (sk) m
Slovene: lótos (sl) m
Spanish: loto (es) m
Swahili: yungiyungi la kimisri, lotasi
Tagalog: bayno, baino, lawas
Tamil: தாமரை (ta) (tāmarai), கமலம் (ta) (kamalam)
Telugu: తామరపుష్పం (te) (tāmarapuṣpaṁ)
Thai: บัว (th) (buua), บัวหลวง (th) (buua-lǔuang)
Tibetan: པད་མ (pad ma)
Turkish: nilüfer (tr)
Tày: ngậu, bjoóc ngậu, bưa
Ukrainian: ло́тос m (lótos)
Urdu: کمل m (kamal), کنول (ur) (kãval)
Vietnamese: sen (vi)
Welsh: alaw'r dŵr m :

### Further reading

* lotus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* louts, tolus

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lotus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlɔ.tus]

### Noun

lotus m (invariable)
* lotus

#### Derived terms

* lotus americà
* lotus blanc
* lotus blau
* lotus de l'Índia

#### Related terms

* lledó

### Further reading

* “lotus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “lotus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “lotus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “lotus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈloː.tʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: lo‧tus

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

#### Noun

lotus m (plural lotussen, diminutive lotusje n)
* lotus, plant of the genus Nelumbo
* used for certain plants of the genus Nymphaea

##### Derived terms

* blauwe lotus
* lotusbloem

### Etymology 2

From the acronym of Landelijke Opleiding Tot Uitbeelding van Slachtoffers (literally “National Training Course for the Portrayal of Victims”).

#### Noun

lotus m or f (plural lotussen, diminutive lotusje n)
* (Netherlands, medicine slang) patient actor, simulated patient, standardized participant (a lay person person trained to portray medical conditions)
    Synonym: trauma-acteur

##### Derived terms

* lotusslachtoffer

### Further reading

* “lotus” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lo.tys/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lotus m (plural lotus)
* lotus

### Further reading

* “lotus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch lotus, from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlotʊs]
* Hyphenation: lo‧tus

### Noun

lotus (plural lotus-lotus)
* lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
    Synonyms: padma, pekaja, seroja, teratai

### Further reading

* “lotus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈloː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪oːt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlo.tus/, [ˈlɔːt̪us]

### Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”). Doublet of lavātus and lautus.

#### Participle

lōtus (feminine lōta, neuter lōtum); first/second-declension participle
* washed, bathed, having been washed
* elegant, luxurious
* fashionable, refined

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* illōtus

### Etymology 2

From lavō (“to wash”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix)

#### Noun

lōtus m (genitive lōtūs); fourth declension
* a washing, bathing

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

### Etymology 3

Variant form of lōtos, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

#### Alternative forms

* lōtos

#### Noun

lōtus m (genitive lōtī); second declension
* The Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
* The date plum, Diospyros lotus
* The mythical lotus tree, possibly Ziziphus lotus

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* lōtaster

##### Descendants

* Translingual: Lotus
* Italian: loto

### References

* “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "lotus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* lotus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “lotus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlo.tus/

### Noun

lotus m (plural lotuși)
* lotus

#### Declension
### Further reading

* lotus in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)