geranium

See also: Geranium and géranium

English

Geranium sanguineum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos, “crane”), plus the Latin suffix -ium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

geranium (plural geraniums or gerania)

1. Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, the cranesbills, of family Geraniaceae.
2. The common name for flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium.
3. A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium.

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Synonyms

• (Geranium): cranesbill
• (Pelargonium): pelargonium

Derived terms

• nutmeg geranium
• rock geranium (Heuchera spp.)
• rose geranium (Pelargonium spp.)
• wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Related terms

• geraniol

Translations

cranesbill

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: здравец m (zdravec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老鸛草

• Danish: storkenæb (da), geranium
• Finnish: kurjenpolvi (fi)
• French: géranium (fr) m
• Galician: xeranio m
• Georgian: ნემსიწვერა (nemsic̣vera)
• German: Storchschnabel m
• Greek: γεράνιον n (geránion), γεράνι (el) n (geráni)

  Ancient: γεράνιον n (geránion)

• Irish: crobh fola m, geiréiniam m
• Italian: geranio perenne m, geranio (it) m
• Japanese: ゼラニウム (zeraniumu)
• Norman: djérainium m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geranium m, storkenebb m or n

  Nynorsk: geranium m, storkenebb m or n

• Plautdietsch: Ommeraunje f
• Polish: bodziszek m
• Portuguese: gerânio (pt) m
• Romanian: geraniu (ro) m
• Russian: гера́нь (ru) f (geránʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zdravnjak

• Spanish: geranio (es) m
• Tagalog: heranyo
• Turkish: sardunya (tr)
• Volapük: (Geranium) gerum
• Welsh: pig y crëyr m

common name for Pelargoniums

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мушкато (bg) n (muškato)
• Catalan: gerani m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: pelargónie f
• Danish: pelargonie c, geranium
• Dutch: geranium (nl) f
• Finnish: pelargoni (fi)
• French: géranium (fr) m, pélargonium (fr) m
• Georgian: ნემსიწვერა (nemsic̣vera)
• German: Geranie (de) f
• Hungarian: muskátli (hu)
• Irish: peileargóiniam m
• Italian: geranio (it) m, pelargonio m
• Norman: djérainium m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geranium m

  Nynorsk: geranium m

• Polish: pelargonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: gerânio (pt) m, pelargónio (pt) m (Portugal), pelargônio m (Brazil)
• Romanian: mușcată (ro) f, pelargonie (ro) f
• Russian: гера́нь (ru) f (geránʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здра̀вац m

  Roman: zdràvac (sh) m

• Spanish: geranio (es) m
• Swedish: pelargonia (sv) c, pelargon (sv) c
• Volapük: (Pelargonium) pelargun

colour

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: oranssinpunainen (fi)
• Italian: geranio (it)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• alfilaria
• storksbill
• geranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pelargonium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Geranium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pelargonium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Adjective

geranium (comparative more geranium, superlative most geranium)

1. Of a bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium.

Translations

color

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: oranssinpunainen (fi)
• Italian: geranio (it)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos, “crane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈraː.ni.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: ge‧ra‧ni‧um

Noun

geranium f (plural geraniums, diminutive geraniumpje n)

1. A geranium, plant of the genus Geranium.
2. (informal) A pelargonium.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos, “crane”)

Noun

geranium m (definite singular geranien or geraniumen, indefinite plural geranier, definite plural geraniene)

1. a geranium, plant of genus Geranium
2. a pelargonium (popular name)

Synonyms

• storkenebb

Related terms

• pelargonia

References

• “geranium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “geranium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos)

Noun

geranium m (definite singular geraniumen, indefinite plural geraniumar, definite plural geraniumane)

1. a geranium, plant of genus Geranium
2. a pelargonium (popular name)

Synonyms

• storkenebb

Related terms

• pelargonia

References

• “geranium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈraɲ.jum/
• Rhymes: -aɲjum
• Syllabification: ge‧ran‧ium

Noun

geranium n

1. geranium, cranesbill

   Synonym: bodziszek

2. A popular name of some species of pelargonium.

Declension

Declension of geranium

	singular	plural
nominative	geranium	gerania
genitive	geranium	geraniów
dative	geranium	geraniom
accusative	geranium	gerania
instrumental	geranium	geraniami
locative	geranium	geraniach
vocative	geranium	gerania

Derived terms

adjective

• geraniowy

 

Further reading

• geranium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• geranium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French géranium.

Noun

geranium n (uncountable)

1. geranium

Declension

declension of geranium (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) geranium	geraniumul
genitive/dative	(unui) geranium	geraniumului
vocative	geraniumule