oleander

See also: Oleander

English

An oleander bush.

Etymology

From French oléandre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊlɪˈændə/

Noun

oleander (countable and uncountable, plural oleanders)

1. Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.

Translations

A poisonous shrub

• Arabic: دِفْلَى‎ f (diflā)
• Armenian: դափնեվարդ (hy) (dapʿnevard), ճփնի (hy) (čpʿni)
• Basque: heriotzorri
• Bengali: করবী (kôrôbī), করবীর (kôrôbīr)
• Bulgarian: олеандър m (oleandǎr), зокум m (zokum)
• Burmese: နွယ်သာကီ (my) (nwaisaki)
• Catalan: baladre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾竹桃 (zh) (jiāzhútáo)

• Czech: oleandr m
• Esperanto: oleandro (eo)
• Finnish: oleanteri (fi), oleanteripuu
• French: laurier-rose (fr) m, oléandre (fr) m
• Galician: loendro m, adelfa f
• Georgian: ოლეანდრე (oleandre)
• German: Oleander (de) m
• Greek: ροδοδάφνη (el) f (rododáfni)

  Ancient: νήριον n (nḗrion)

• Hebrew: הַרְדּוּף‎ (he) m (hardúf)
• Hungarian: leander (hu), babérrózsa (hu)

• Ido: rozlauro (io)
• Irish: oiliandar m
• Italian: oleandro (it) m
• Japanese: 夾竹桃 (kyōchikutō)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژاڵە‎ (ku) (jalle)

  Southern Kurdish: ژاڵە‎ (ku) (jalle)

• Latin: nerium n
• Macedonian: леандер m (leander)
• Piedmontese: leànder m
• Polish: oleander (pl) m
• Portuguese: oleandro m, espirradeira (pt) f
• Romanian: leandru (ro) m, oleandru (ro) m
• Russian: олеа́ндр (ru) m (oleándr)
• Spanish: adelfa (es) f
• Tagalog: adelpa (tl), baladre
• Tamil: அரளி (ta) (araḷi)
• Telugu: గన్నేరు (te) (gannēru)
• Thai: ยี่โถ (yîi-tǒo)
• Turkish: zakkum (tr), ağı ağacı (tr)
• Welsh: rhoswydden f, rhoslawryf m

Derived terms

• sweet oleander

Further reading

• Nerium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• DeLorean, reloaned

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.lɛˈan.dɛr/

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• Rhymes: -andɛr
• Syllabification: o‧le‧an‧der

Noun

oleander m inan

1. oleander

Declension

Declension of oleander

	singular	plural
nominative	oleander	oleandry
genitive	oleandra	oleandrów
dative	oleandrowi	oleandrom
accusative	oleander	oleandry
instrumental	oleandrem	oleandrami
locative	oleandrze	oleandrach
vocative	oleandrze	oleandry

Further reading

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