nenúfar
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ne‧nú‧far
Noun edit
nenúfar m (plural nenúfares)
- nenuphar; water lily
- Synonym: ninfeia
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin nenuphar, from Arabic نِلُوفَر (nilūfar), نِينُوفَر (nīnūfar), from Middle Persian nylw(k)pl (nīlōpal, “lotus, water-lily”), from Sanskrit नीलोत्पल (nīlotpala).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nenúfar m (plural nenúfares)
- water lily, white waterlily
- Synonym: ninfea
Further reading edit
- “nenúfar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014