fleur

French

noun
Definitions
  • (botany) Flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants").
  • (metonymy) flowering Flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself.
  • (figuratively) A kind favor given by one person to another.
  • (figuratively) The best of something.
  • (metaphor) The virginity of a woman.
  • (archaic) Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French flur inherited from Latin flōrem inherited from Proto-Italic *flōs derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (flower, blossom, bloom, thrive, flourish, inflate, blow, swell, leaf).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰleh₃-

Gloss

flower, blossom, bloom, thrive, flourish, inflate, blow, swell, leaf

Concept
Semantic Field

Agriculture and vegetation

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

花

Emoji
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