Job's tears

English

Job 's tears pl (plural only)

Coix lacryma-jobi, a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae, native to southeast Asia.
Synonym: adlay

Coix lacryma-jobi

Arabic: دَمْع أَيُّوب m (damʕ ʔayyūb)
Burmese: ကျိတ်ပင် (kyitpang)
Catalan: llàgrimes de Job f pl
Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎤᏂᏥ (selu unitsi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薏苡 (zh) (yìyǐ)
Fijian: sila (fi)
Finnish: jobinkyynelheinä
German: Hiobsträne f, Hiobstränengras
Hawaiian: pūʻoheʻohe, ʻoheʻohe
Japanese: 薏苡 (よくい, yokui)
Khmer: ស្កួយ (km) (skuəy)
Korean: 염주(念珠) (yeomju), 율무 (yulmu)
Malay: jelai, enjelai
Maori: tangatanga
Maranao: delay
Persian: اشک روباه (ašk rubâh), شال تسبیح (šâl tasbih)
Russian: бу́сенник обыкнове́нный m (búsennik obyknovénnyj), ио́влевы слёзы f pl (ióvlevy sljózy)
Samoan: sanasana, sagasaga
Tagalog: abukay
Tahitian: poepoe
Thai: เดือย (th) (dʉai)
Tongan: hana
Ukrainian: бусеннік звичайний m (busennik zvyčajnyj), сльо́зи Іова f pl (slʹózy Iova)
Vietnamese: bo bo (vi), ý dĩ (vi), cườm thảo

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