Noun
marigold (plural marigolds)
- Any of the Old World plants, of the genus Calendula, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
- Any of the New World plants, of the genus Tagetes, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers.
2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 87:Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007).
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A million pounds sterling.
- Alternative form of Marigold (rubber glove for cleaning)
Translations
Calendula
- Albanian: mërgjyzë f
- Arabic: آذَرْيُون (ar) m (ʔāḏaryūn), كَحْلَاء f (kaḥlāʔ), بُكُورِيّة f (bukūriyya)
- Bulgarian: невен (bg) m (neven)
- Burmese: ထပ်တစ်ရာပန်း (htaptacrapan:), ထပ်တစ်ရာ (my) (htaptacra)
- Catalan: calèndula (ca) f
- Central Nahuatl: cempōhualxōchitl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 金盞草 / 金盏草 (zh) (jīnzhǎncǎo), 萬壽菊 / 万寿菊 (zh) (wànshòujú)
- Czech: měsíček m
- Danish: morgenfrue c
- Dutch: goudsbloem (nl)
- Esperanto: kalendulo
- Faroese: morgunfrúa f
- Finnish: kehäkukka (fi)
- French: souci (fr) m
- Galician: pampillo m
- German: Ringelblume (de) f, Calendula f
- Hebrew: צִפָּרְנֵי חָתוּל (he) pl (tzippornḗ ḥatúl)
- Hungarian: körömvirág (hu)
- Icelandic: morgunfrú (is) f, gullfífill (is) m
- Interlingua: calendula
- Italian: calendola (it) f, fiorrancio (it) m
- Japanese: 金盞花 (ja) (kinsenka), キンセンカ (kinsenka)
- Korean: 금잔화 (ko) (geumjanhwa)
- Kyrgyz: календула (ky) (kalendula)
- Latin: caltha f
- Macedonian: невен m (neven)
- Maori: marikōura
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ringblomst m
- Nynorsk: ringblome m
- Persian: آذریون (fa) (âzaryun), آذرگون (fa) (âzargun)
- Polish: nagietek (pl) m
- Portuguese: malmequer (pt) m
- Romanian: filimică (ro) f, gălbenele f pl
- Russian: ноготки́ (ru) m pl (nogotkí), кале́ндула (ru) f (kaléndula)
- Serbo-Croatian: невен m, neven (sh) m
- Spanish: caléndula (es) f, margarita (es) f, cempasúchil (es) (Mexico)
- Swahili: kalendula
- Swedish: ringblomma (sv) c
- Tagalog: amarilyo (tl)
- Telugu: బంతి (te) (banti)
- Thai: คาเลนดูลา (kaa-leen-duu-lâa)
- Turkish: öküzgözü (tr), aynısefa (tr)
- Ukrainian: нагі́дки f pl (nahídky), кале́ндула f (kaléndula), кро́кис m (krókys), крокі́с m (krokís)
- Vietnamese: hoa vạn thọ
- Volapük: kalendul
- Welsh: melyn Mair m
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Tagetes
- Arabic: قَطِيفَة f (qaṭīfa), آذَرْيُون (ar) m (ʔāḏaryūn)
- Armenian: թավշածաղիկ (hy) (tʻavšacaġik)
- Bulgarian: була (bg) f (bula), турта f (turta)
- Catalan: clavell de moro m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 金盞草 / 金盏草 (zh) (jīnzhǎncǎo), 萬壽菊 / 万寿菊 (zh) (wànshòujú)
- Czech: afrikán (cs) m, aksamitník m
- Danish: tagetes (da) c, fløjlsblomst c
- Dutch: afrikaantje (nl)
- Finnish: samettikukka (fi)
- German: Studentenblume (de) f, Tagetes (de) f
- Hungarian: bársonyvirág (hu), büdöske (hu)
- Japanese: マリーゴールド (marīgōrudo)
- Korean: 천수국(千壽菊) (ko) (cheonsuguk)
- Malay: marigold
- Maori: marikōura
- Ottoman Turkish: قطیفه چیچكی (kadife çiçeği)
- Polish: aksamitka (pl) f, aksamitek (pl) m
- Portuguese: tagetes f
- Punjabi: ਗੇਂਦਾ m (gendā)
- Quechua: wakatay
- Romanian: crăiță (ro) f, vâzdoagă (ro) f
- Russian: ба́рхатцы (ru) m pl (bárxatcy)
- Spanish: flor maravilla
- Swahili: tageta
- Swedish: tagetes c, sammetsblomster c
- Thai: ดาวเรือง (th) (daao-rʉʉang)
- Turkish: kadife çiçeği
- Ukrainian: чорнобри́вець m (čornobrývecʹ)
- Vietnamese: hoa vạn thọ
- Welsh: gold (cy) m
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References
- (million pounds): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
