flax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.
Inflected forms:
form: flaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Flax Bourton
linen
tow
Derived words: blue flax
earthflax
false flax
flax bow
flaxbush
flaxcomb
flax cotton
flax dodder
flax-dresser
flaxen
flax-leaved daphne
flaxlike
flax milk
flaxseed
flax seed
flax-stick
flaxweed
flaxwort
flaxy
holy flax
Lewis flax
mountain flax
New Zealand flax
toadflax
Translations:
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒃰
roman: kitûm
lang: Albanian
word: li
lang: Southern Altai
word: кӱдели
roman: küdeli
lang: Southern Altai
word: кеден
roman: keden
lang: Arabic
word: كَتَّان
roman: kattān
lang: Arabic
word: كتان
roman: kittān
lang: Arabic
word: كتان
roman: kattān
lang: Aramaic
word: ܟܬܢܐ
roman: /⁠kittānā⁠/
lang: Aramaic
word: ܟܝܬܢܐ
roman: /⁠kittānā⁠/
lang: Aramaic
word: ܟܬܢܐ
roman: kettānā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܩܛܘ
roman: qeṭaw
lang: Aramaic
word: כִּיתָּנָא
roman: kittānā
lang: Armenian
word: վուշ
roman: vuš
lang: Old Armenian
word: վուշ
roman: vuš
lang: Old Armenian
word: կտաւ
roman: ktaw
lang: Aromanian
word: ljin
lang: Azerbaijani
word: adi kətan
lang: Basque
word: liho
lang: Belarusian
word: лён
roman: ljon
lang: Bengali
word: তিসি
roman: tiśi
lang: Bulgarian
word: лен
roman: len
lang: Catalan
word: lli
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 亞麻 /亚麻
roman: yàmá
lang: Czech
word: len
lang: Danish
word: hør
lang: Dutch
word: vlas
lang: Erzya
word: сюс
roman: śus
lang: Esperanto
word: lino
lang: Estonian
word: lina
lang: Faroese
word: lín
lang: Faroese
word: hørur
lang: Finnish
word: pellava
lang: French
word: lin
lang: Friulian
word: lin
lang: Galician
word: liño
lang: Georgian
word: სელი
roman: seli
lang: German
word: Flachs
lang: German
word: Lein
lang: Swabian
word: Lãẽ
lang: Greek
word: λινάρι
roman: linári
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κάρπασος
roman: kárpasos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λίνον
roman: línon
lang: Gujarati
word: અળસી
roman: aḷsī
lang: Hebrew
word: פִּשְׁתָּן
roman: pištā́n
lang: Hebrew
word: פִּשְׁתָּה
roman: pištā́
lang: Hungarian
word: len
lang: Icelandic
word: lín
lang: Italian
word: lino
lang: Japanese
word: 亜麻
roman: ama
lang: Kannada
word: ಅಗಸೆನಾರು
roman: agasenāru
lang: Kazakh
word: зығыр
roman: zyğyr
lang: Khmer
word: ការច្នៃ
roman: kaacnay
lang: Korean
word: 아마
roman: ama
lang: Latgalian
word: lyns
lang: Latin
word: līnum
lang: Latvian
word: lins
lang: Lithuanian
word: linas
lang: Low German
word: Flass
lang: Macedonian
word: лен
roman: len
lang: Malay
word: flaks
lang: Middle English
word: flax
lang: Mongolian
word: маалинга
roman: maalinga
lang: Norman
word: lîn
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lin
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hør
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: lin
lang: Occitan
word: lin
lang: Old English
word: fleax
lang: Persian
word: کتان
roman: katân
lang: Persian
word: وش
roman: vaš
lang: Persian
word: زغر
roman: zeġer
lang: Polish
word: len
lang: Portuguese
word: linho
lang: Punic
word: 𐤐𐤔𐤕
roman: pišt
lang: Romanian
word: in
lang: Russian
word: лён
roman: ljon
lang: Sanskrit
word: उमा
roman: umā
lang: Sardinian
word: linu
lang: Scots
word: lint
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ла̏н
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lȁn
lang: Slovak
word: ľan
lang: Slovene
word: lan
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: lan
lang: Spanish
word: lino
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒃰
roman: gada
lang: Swedish
word: lin
lang: Tabasaran
word: гиниб
roman: ginib
lang: Tamil
word: ஆளி
roman: āḷi
lang: Turkish
word: keten
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كتان
roman: kettan
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎖𐎉
roman: qṭ
lang: Ukrainian
word: льон
roman: lʹon
lang: Uzbek
word: zigʻir
lang: Vietnamese
word: lanh
lang: Volapük
word: linum
lang: Welsh
word: llin