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" (27 found)
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More general
9 entriesMore specific
4 entriesbrown flaxseedfiber flaxgolden flaxseedlinseed flax
Collocations
6 entriesflax cultivationflax fiberflax plantflax seed mealflax seedslinseed oil
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
97 translations across 81 languages.
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒃰 noun (plant)
Albanian
1 entries- li noun (plant)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κάρπασος noun (plant)
- λίνον noun (plant)
Arabic
3 entries- كتان noun (plant)
- كتان noun (plant)
- كَتَّان noun (plant)
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
1 entries- лен noun (plant)
Catalan
1 entries- lli noun (plant)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 亞麻 /亚麻 noun (plant)
Czech
1 entries- len noun (plant)
Danish
1 entries- hør noun (plant)
Dutch
1 entries- vlas noun (plant)
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
1 entries- pellava noun (plant)
French
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Friulian
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Galician
1 entries- liño noun (plant)
Georgian
1 entries- სელი noun (plant)
German
2 entries- Flachs noun (plant)
- Lein noun (plant)
Greek
1 entries- λινάρι noun (plant)
Gujarati
1 entries- અળસી noun (plant)
Hebrew
2 entries- פִּשְׁתָּה noun (plant)
- פִּשְׁתָּן noun (plant)
Hungarian
1 entries- len noun (plant)
Icelandic
1 entries- lín noun (plant)
Italian
1 entries- lino noun (plant)
Japanese
1 entries- 亜麻 noun (plant)
Kannada
1 entries- ಅಗಸೆನಾರು noun (plant)
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
1 entries- lins noun (plant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- linas noun (plant)
Low German
1 entries- Flass noun (plant)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- lan noun (plant)
Macedonian
1 entries- лен noun (plant)
Malay
1 entries- flaks noun (plant)
Middle English
1 entries- flax noun (plant)
Mongolian
1 entries- маалинга noun (plant)
Norman
1 entries- lîn noun (plant)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hør noun (plant)
- lin noun (plant)
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
3 entries- زغر noun (plant)
- وش noun (plant)
- کتان noun (plant)
Polish
1 entries- len noun (plant)
Portuguese
1 entries- linho noun (plant)
Punic
1 entries- 𐤐𐤔𐤕 noun (plant)
Romanian
1 entries- in noun (plant)
Russian
1 entries- лён noun (plant)
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
1 entries- lino noun (plant)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒃰 noun (plant)
Swabian
1 entries- Lãẽ noun (plant)
Swedish
1 entries- lin noun (plant)
Tabasaran
1 entries- гиниб noun (plant)
Tamil
1 entries- ஆளி noun (plant)
Turkish
1 entries- keten noun (plant)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎖𐎉 noun (plant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- льон noun (plant)
Uzbek
1 entries- zigʻir noun (plant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lanh noun (plant)
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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