It is dull for me, grandmother, to sit idly hour by hour. My hands want work to do. Go, therefore, and buy me some flax, the best and finest to be found anywhere, and at least I can spin.
Source: tatoeba (3758801)
Flax
//flæks//
Synonyms for "flax" (22 found)
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15 entriesTranslations
129 translations across 82 languages.
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒃰 noun (plant)
Albanian
1 entries- li noun (plant)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κάρπασος noun (plant)
- λίνον noun (plant)
- λίνον noun (the fibers)
Arabic
4 entries- كتان noun (plant)
- كتان noun (plant)
- كَتَّان noun (plant)
- كَتّان noun (the fibers)
Aramaic
4 entries- כִּיתָּנָא noun (plant)
- ܟܝܬܢܐ noun (plant)
- ܟܬܢܐ noun (plant)
- ܟܬܢܐ noun (plant)
Armenian
1 entries- վուշ noun (plant)
Aromanian
1 entries- ljin noun (plant)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- adi kətan noun (plant)
Basque
1 entries- liho noun (plant)
Belarusian
1 entries- лён noun (plant)
Bengali
1 entries- তিসি noun (plant)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лен noun (plant)
- лен noun (the fibers)
Catalan
2 entries- lli noun (plant)
- lli noun (the fibers)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 亞麻 /亚麻 noun (plant)
Czech
1 entries- len noun (plant)
Danish
1 entries- hør noun (plant)
Dutch
2 entries- vlas noun (plant)
- vlas noun (the fibers)
Erzya
1 entries- сюс noun (plant)
Esperanto
1 entries- lino noun (plant)
Estonian
1 entries- lina noun (plant)
Faroese
2 entries- hørur noun (plant)
- lín noun (plant)
Finnish
2 entries- pellava noun (plant)
- pellava noun (the fibers)
French
2 entries- lin noun (plant)
- lin noun (the fibers)
Friulian
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Galician
3 entries- freba noun (the fibers)
- liño noun (plant)
- liño noun (the fibers)
Georgian
1 entries- სელი noun (plant)
German
4 entries- Flachs noun (plant)
- Flachs noun (the fibers)
- Flachsfaser noun (the fibers)
- Lein noun (plant)
Greek
2 entries- λινάρι noun (plant)
- λινάρι noun (the fibers)
Gujarati
2 entries- અળસી noun (plant)
- અળસી noun (the fibers)
Hebrew
2 entries- פִּשְׁתָּה noun (plant)
- פִּשְׁתָּן noun (plant)
Hungarian
1 entries- len noun (plant)
Icelandic
1 entries- lín noun (plant)
Italian
2 entries- lino noun (plant)
- lino noun (the fibers)
Japanese
1 entries- 亜麻 noun (plant)
Kannada
2 entries- ಅಗಸೆನಾರು noun (plant)
- ಅಗಸೆನಾರು noun (the fibers)
Kazakh
1 entries- зығыр noun (plant)
Khmer
1 entries- ការច្នៃ noun (plant)
Korean
1 entries- 아마 noun (plant)
Latgalian
1 entries- lyns noun (plant)
Latin
1 entries- līnum noun (plant)
Latvian
2 entries- lini noun (the fibers)
- lins noun (plant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- linas noun (plant)
Low German
1 entries- Flass noun (plant)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- lan noun (plant)
- lan noun (the fibers)
Macedonian
2 entries- лен noun (plant)
- лен noun (the fibers)
Malay
1 entries- flaks noun (plant)
Middle English
1 entries- flax noun (plant)
Mongolian
1 entries- маалинга noun (plant)
Norman
2 entries- lîn noun (plant)
- lîn noun (the fibers)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- hør noun (plant)
- hør noun (the fibers)
- lin noun (plant)
- lin noun (the fibers)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Occitan
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Old Armenian
2 entries- կտաւ noun (plant)
- վուշ noun (plant)
Old English
1 entries- fleax noun (plant)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كتان noun (plant)
Persian
4 entries- زغر noun (plant)
- وش noun (plant)
- کتان noun (plant)
- کتان noun (the fibers)
Polish
2 entries- len noun (plant)
- len noun (the fibers)
Portuguese
2 entries- filaça noun (the fibers)
- linho noun (plant)
Punic
1 entries- 𐤐𐤔𐤕 noun (plant)
Romanian
2 entries- in noun (plant)
- in noun (the fibers)
Russian
2 entries- лён noun (plant)
- лён noun (the fibers)
Sanskrit
1 entries- उमा noun (plant)
Sardinian
1 entries- linu noun (plant)
Scots
1 entries- lint noun (plant)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lȁn noun (plant)
- ла̏н noun (plant)
Slovak
1 entries- ľan noun (plant)
Slovene
1 entries- lan noun (plant)
Southern Altai
2 entries- кеден noun (plant)
- кӱдели noun (plant)
Spanish
2 entries- lino noun (plant)
- lino noun (the fibers)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒃰 noun (plant)
Swabian
1 entries- Lãẽ noun (plant)
Swedish
2 entries- lin noun (plant)
- lin noun (the fibers)
Tabasaran
1 entries- гиниб noun (plant)
Tagalog
1 entries- sulid noun (the fibers)
Tamil
1 entries- ஆளி noun (plant)
Turkish
1 entries- keten noun (plant)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎖𐎉 noun (plant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- льон noun (plant)
- льон noun (the fibers)
Uzbek
1 entries- zigʻir noun (plant)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lanh noun (plant)
- lanh noun (the fibers)
Volapük
1 entries- linum noun (plant)
Welsh
1 entries- llin noun (plant)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
I eat bread covered with flax seeds, which end up all over the table.
Source: tatoeba (5363921)
The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled; but the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.
Source: tatoeba (7999388)
The mountain ash is blooming. It's time to sow flax.
Source: tatoeba (8324188)
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