bay leaf

English

Noun

bay leaf (plural bay leaves)

1. A herb derived from any of certain shrubs of the family Lauraceae and Myrtaceae.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:

     A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.

Translations

herb

• Arabic: ورق الغار
• Assamese: তেজপাত (tezpat)
• Bengali: তেজপাতা (bn) (tejpata)
• Burmese: ကရဝေးရွက် (my) (ka.ra.we:rwak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 月桂 (jyut⁶ gwai³)

  Mandarin: 月桂 (zh) (yuèguì)

• Czech: bobkový list m
• Danish: laurbærblad n
• Dutch: laurierblad (nl) n
• Finnish: laakerinlehti (fi)
• French: feuille de laurier (fr) f
• Galician: loureiro (gl) m
• German: Lorbeerblatt (de) n
• Greek: δάφνη (el) (dáfni), φύλλο δάφνης (fýllo dáfnis)

  Ancient: δάφνη (dáphnē), μαλάβαθρον n (malábathron)

• Hebrew: עֲלֵי דַּפְנָה (aley Dapənah)
• Hindi: तेज पत्ता (tej pattā)
• Hungarian: babérlevél (hu)
• Irish: duilleog labhrais f
• Italian: alloro (it)
• Latin: laurus f
• Luxembourgish: Lorberblat n
• Macedonian: ловоров лист m (lovorov list)
• Malay: daun salam
• Maori: rau roera
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laurbærblad n

  Nynorsk: laurbærblad n

• Polish: liść laurowy (pl) m, liść bobkowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: louro (pt) m
• Romanian: foaie de dafin f
• Russian: лавровый лист m (lavrovyj list)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ловоров лист m, лаворов лист m

  Roman: lovorov list m, lavorov list m

• Slovak: bobkový list
• Slovene: lovorov list m
• Spanish: laurel (es)
• Swedish: lagerblad (sv) n
• Tagalog: lawrel
• Telugu: బగరాకు (bagarāku), బఘరాక్కు (bagharākku), బిర్యాని ఆకు (biryāni āku)
• Thai: ใบกระวาน
• Turkish: defne (tr), defne yaprağı (tr)
• Yiddish: לאָרבערבלאַט (lorberblat)