sweet flag

English

Acorus calamus.

Noun

sweet flag (plural sweet flags)

A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.
Synonym: calamus

Translations

Acorus calamus

Arabic: وَجّ m (wajj), ذَرِيرَة f (ḏarīra)
Bulgarian: бла́тен аи́р m (bláten aír), аи́р m (aír)
Catalan: càlam (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 䒢 (zh) (áng)
Czech: puškvorec obecný m, puškvorec (cs) m, piškvorec m, šišvorec m, kalmus m, nejedlík m, tatarák (cs) m
Estonian: harilik kalmus
Finnish: kalmojuuri (fi), rohtokalmojuuri (fi)
French: acore odorant m
German: Kalmus (de) m, Deutscher Zitwer m, Deutscher Ingwer m
Greek:
Ancient: ἄκορος f (ákoros)
Hungarian: kálmos (hu)
Icelandic: kalmusrót f
Italian: acoro m
Japanese: 菖蒲 (ja) (しょうぶ, shōbu)
Kazakh: айыр (aiyr), андыз (andyz), иір (iır)
Latvian: kalme f
Lithuanian: ajeras m
Macedonian: и́гир m (ígir)
Maori: karamuha (a Biblical plant)
Old English: bēowyrt f
Persian: وج (vaj), اگیر (agir), فرژ (fa) (farež)
Polish: tatarak zwyczajny (pl) m, tatarak (pl) m, ajer (pl) m, tatarskie ziele (pl) n, lepiech m, lepiecha f, sasyna f, szuwar (pl) m
Portuguese: ácoro (pt) m, cálamo m
Romanian: obligeană (ro) f
Russian: аи́р (ru) m (aír)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: иђѝрот m

Latin: iđìrot (sh) m
Shan: သၢမ်ပူး (shn) (sǎam púu)
Slovak: puškvorec obyčajný (sk) m, puškvorec m, šišvorec m, tatárska tráva m, tatársky koreň m, kalmus m, nejedlík m
Slovene: kolmež m
Spanish: cálamo aromático m, ácoro m
Tagalog: kalamo
Tatar: кылыч үлән (qılıç ülän), сусын (tt) (susın)
Thai: ว่านน้ำ (wâan-náam)
Turkish: eğir (tr), eğir otu, eğir kökü (tr), azak eğeri, arı otu, hazanbel, hazambel, kurtluca (tr), yel otu
Ukrainian: а́їр (uk) m (ájir), а́єр m (ájer), тата́рське зі́лля n (tatársʹke zíllja), лепеха́ f (lepexá), ле́пех m (lépex)
Uzbek: игир (igir)
Volapük: (Acorus) kaor

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