forget-me-not

English

Forget-me-not

Etymology

Calque of Middle French ne m'oubliez mie or German Vergissmeinnicht.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɚˈɡɛt.miˌnɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈɡɛt.miːˌnɒt/

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Noun

forget-me-not (plural forget-me-nots)

2. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.
4. A light tint of blue, the color of the flower.

   forget-me-not:  

   Coordinate term: see at Appendix:Colors

6. (entomology) Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.

Translations

plant of the genus Myosotis

• Albanian: lule mosmëharro f
• Arabic: أُذْن الفَأْر f (ʔuḏn al-faʔr)
• Armenian: անմոռուկ (hy) (anmoṙuk)
• Azerbaijani: yaddaşçiçəyi
• Basque: oroilore
• Belarusian: незабу́дка f (njezabúdka)
• Breton: daoulagad-ar-werc'hez
• Bulgarian: незабравка (bg) f (nezabravka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勿忘草 (zh) (wùwàngcǎo), 勿忘我 (zh) (wùwàngwǒ)

• Czech: pomněnka (cs) f
• Danish: forglemmigej
• Dutch: vergeet-mij-niet (nl) f
• Esperanto: neforgesumino, miozoto
• Estonian: lõosilm (et), meelespea (et)
• Faroese: gloymmegei f, hoylús f
• Finnish: lemmikki (fi)
• French: ne-m’oubliez-pas (fr) m, myosotis (fr) m
• Galician: nonmesquezas (gl)
• Georgian: კესანე (ḳesane), ცისანა (cisana)
• German: Vergissmeinnicht (de) n
• Greek: μη με λησμόνει (el) n (mi me lismónei)
• Hungarian: nefelejcs (hu)
• Icelandic: gleym-mér-ei (is) f
• Irish: lus míonla m
• Italian: nontiscordardimé m, miosotide f
• Japanese: 勿忘草 (ja) (わすれなぐさ, wasurenagusa)
• Kabardian: кърухугу (kbd) (qruxʷugʷu)
• Kazakh: ботакөз (botaköz)
• Korean: 물망초(勿忘草) (ko) (mulmangcho)
• Latin: myosotis f
• Latvian: neaizmirstule f
• Lithuanian: neužmirštuõlė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forglemmegei m

  Nynorsk: minneblom m, forgløymmegei m

• Ossetian: ма-рох-кӕн (ma-rox-kæn)
• Ottoman Turkish: صیچان قولاغی (sıçan kulağı)
• Polish: niezapominajka (pl) f, niezabudka (pl) f
• Portuguese: não-me-esqueças (pt) m, miosótis (pt)
• Romanian: nu-mă-uita (ro), miozotis (ro) m
• Russian: незабу́дка (ru) f (nezabúdka)
• Saterland Frisian: Ferjätmienit
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: незаборавак m

  Roman: nezaboravak (sh) m

• Silesian: żabiłoczko n
• Slovak: nezábudka (sk) f
• Slovene: spominčica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: njezapomničak m

• Spanish: nomeolvides (es) f
• Swedish: förgätmigej (sv)
• Tatar: күгəрчен күзе (kügərçen küze)
• Turkish: unutmabeni (tr)
• Ukrainian: незабу́дка f (nezabúdka)
• Welsh: nâd-fi'n angof
• West Frisian: ferjit-my-net, forjit my net