So far, I have Magnolia, Rose, Violet/Violeta, Petunia, Lily, and Daisy for English, though Violeta is Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Portuguese according to the Wikipedia.
So far, I have Magnolia, Rose, Violet/Violeta, Petunia, Lily, and Daisy for English, though Violeta is Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, and Portuguese according to the Wikipedia.
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Mothra@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 195d
I'm here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven't seen it mentioned yet
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 195d
Dutch: Madelief, Roos, Margriet
folaht@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 195d
Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne
Geobloke@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 195d
Dutch is just English with a broken jaw
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 195d
That sounds like good enough reason for the orange-man to invade the Netherlands.
fakasad68@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 194d
"Why do they have rights over the Netherlands anyways? They got troops in the Netherlands a few hundreds of years ago, but we have troops over there too!"
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 195d
Very common in Brazil: Rosa, Margarida, Jasmim/Yasmin, Lívia, Íris.
ps: Margarida is Daisy and Lívia is Lily.
atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 195d
In Spanish and Portuguese there is literally "Florinda"
atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 195d
I gotta say, knowing of two Violets in my life, that is probably my favorite name.
reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 195d
Leïla in persian is the Lilac flower
InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 195d
Portuguese: Rosa, Margarida (Daisy), Floribela (“beautiful flower”), Dália (Dhalia), Íris, Violeta, Jasmim, Magnólia, Flor (literally “flower”), Gardénia, Hortência (Hydrangea), Florência, Liliana (from Lily), Jacinta (Hyacinth). I know personally women with all but four of these names.
This in Portuguese, where I currently live, but I have no reason to believe you won’t find them in Brazil or other Portuguese speaking countries as well…
ValiantDust@feddit.org · 6 pts · 195d
What I can think of in German: Rose, Erika, Jasmin, Iris (maybe Viola but that's not really the commonly used name for the flower)
hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 195d
Japan: 花 (Hana, Flower), 菫 (Sumire, violet), 蓮 (Ren, lotus), 蘭 (Ran, Orchid), 柊 (Hiiragi).
deathbird@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 195d
What about Sakura? Isn't that a name too?
hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 195d
Yes, Sakura is also a girl's name.
Foreigner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 195d
In France some common ones are Rose, Iris, Capucine (Nasturtium), Hortense (Hydrangea), Marguerite (Daisy), Violette, Azalée (Azalea), Camélia, Fleur (Flower), Lilas (Lilac). There's way more than that but those are the ones that come to mind.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 195d
I'm sure someone else will cover the big ones for the US but I just want to chime in that my son's classmate is named Cattleya. (It's a type of orchid.)
capuccino@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
I don't get the question at all. Azucena, maybe?
atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 195d
Oops, girl's names named after flowers
capuccino@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
lol I wasn't so far from the tree, then. Yeah, Azucena is a girl name in spanish.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 195d
Also in English, there's Rosa, Marigold, and Iris (though Marigold might be a color rather than a flower?)
pirc_lover@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 195d
Marigold is a flower — e.g. marsh marigolds :)
Mighty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
In German, we have Margaret(e) - translates to daisy We have Rose and some variations of it (Anne-Rose, Rosa, Rosalinde...)
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 195d
Buttercup, Hyacinth?
sacredbirdman@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 195d
Here a few in Finnish:
BrattiAtti@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 195d
I know a Cambria (type of hybrid orchid).
I know multiple ladies named Heather, if you're counting flowering shrubs.
US, American English
optissima@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 195d
I never considered orchid names… it's me Bulbophyllum
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 195d
English also has Marigold and Iris.
Yukily@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 195d
In France we have: Rose, Iris, Marguerite, Violette, Pétunia, Églantine, Jacinthe, Marjolaine, Capucine, Garance, Camélia, Hortense, Fleur (which litterally mean Flower)
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 194d
We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I'll stick to Irish.
Róise (rowisha): Rose
Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose
That's all I've got.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 194d
That's interesting, the language bit. I've never really thought much about Irish.
The word itself changes based on the adjective you want to apply? Or is that uncommon?
Does that apply for any adjective or only a few? Like would Red rose be a different word? Little Red rose?
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 1 pts · 193d
Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German.
-ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have:
Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill beag is a boy who is small in size, while buachaillín is a term of either affection or derision depending on tone of voice. Bóithrín specifically means a winding country road with unkempt vegetation on the side, while a bóthair beag would be any small road.
Adjectives do not affect the words they are attached to. For example, the Irish word for red is dearg. Hence, a red rose is simply róise dearg, and a little red rose would be róisín dearg, though róisín is rarely used for flowers; it's basically exclusively a name. If you're talking about a flower, you'd be much more likely to say róise beag dearg, though róise dearg beag would also be correct.
Adjectives, however, can be altered by some adverbial prefixes, such as an- (very) and ró (too [much]). So, for example, very small is an-bheag, while too small is ró-bheag. (The BH there is pronounced like the English V. It can also be pronounced as W. I know the rule has to do with which vowels are adjacent, but I can't articulate what the rule is).
The past tense of many verbs is formed by changing the initial letter. Cuir, (put), for example, becomes chuir (put [in the past]); CH here is pronounced the same as in German, which is like the sound J makes in Spanish. Negation also tends to change the first letter of a verb; for example, cuireann (puts) → ní chuireann (does not put).
jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 194d
I know nothing about Irish, but this reminds me of the diminutive in German. There it would be
Rose - Röschen (little rose)
and likewise
You could also translate "little rose" word by word as "kleine Rose".
The sole purpose of this grammatical form is to make something sound smaller, so you can't extend it to other adjectives like "red". "Little red rose" could be "kleine rote Rose" or "rotes Röschen".
monocles@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 194d
My partners middle name is Amaryllis.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 195d
I know it's not technically a flower, but I feel like Blossom counts
mintyowl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 194d
Daisy, Daphne, Astrid, Petal, Flora, Florida, Violet, Rose
off the top of my head, but there's lits of lists of names, books even :) you can look up 'babyname book'
https://nameberry.com/list/97/flower-names-for-girls
clot27@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 194d
In hindi: "gulabo" (rose), "kamala" (lotus), "juhi" (jasmine), "chameli" (again jasmine), "ketaki" (screwpine)
These are all i can think of rn😅
Elextra@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 194d
Vietnamese. "Hoa" is only one I know.
burrito@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 194d
I used to work with a guy who interacted with a Hoa on a relatively regular basis. When he came into the building where she worked he would announce "Where's that ho at?". It was pretty hilarious and she thought it was funny too. I miss that guy he passed away last year, unfortunately.
besbin@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 192d
For Vietnamese there are quite a lot. Many flowers and names in Vietnam have multiple syllables which change the meaning of mono syllabic words and would take too long to list them out. That's why I'm gonna only list monosyllabic and common female names here:
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 193d
Fleur
matte@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 195d
In Swedish there is Linnéa. After the Linnaea flower (Linnea in Swedish). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaea
There is also Rosa, Viola and Iris but Linnéa is probably more common.
Muckle@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 191d
In Spanish it's normal to name girls Rose/Rosa. There's also Rosario for boys and girls. In English there's Rosemary, Roseanne and Rosie.