My mother loved lilac bushes so I planted some outside her door.
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Lilac
//ˈlaɪlək//
Synonyms for "lilac" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (7)
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2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
42 entriesShowing 16 of 42 words.
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4 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
186 translations across 59 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- jargavan noun (shrub)
Arabic
3 entries- لَيْلَكِيّ adj (colour)
- لَيْلَك noun (shrub)
- لَيْلَك noun (flower)
Armenian
3 entries- եղրեւանի noun (shrub)
- յասաման noun (shrub)
- յասաման noun (flower)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- yasəmən adj (colour)
- yasəmən noun (shrub)
- yasəmən noun (flower)
- yasəməni noun (color)
Belarusian
1 entries- бэз noun (shrub)
Breton
1 entries- lireu noun (flower)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лила́в noun (color)
- лю́ляк noun (shrub)
- лю́ляк noun (flower)
- лю́ляков noun (color)
Catalan
4 entries- lila adj (colour)
- lila noun (shrub)
- lila noun (flower)
- lila noun (color)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 淡紫色的 adj (colour)
- 丁香 noun (shrub)
- 丁香花 noun (flower)
- 淡紫色 noun (color)
Cornish
1 entries- leylak noun (flower)
Czech
2 entries- šeřík noun (shrub)
- šeřík noun (flower)
Danish
3 entries- lilla noun (color)
- syren noun (shrub)
- syren noun (flower)
Dutch
4 entries- lila adj (colour)
- lila noun (color)
- sering noun (shrub)
- sering noun (flower)
Estonian
1 entries- lilla adj (colour)
Faroese
1 entries- sírena noun (flower)
Finnish
4 entries- liila adj (colour)
- violetti adj (colour)
- liila noun (color)
- syreeni noun (shrub)
French
3 entries- lilas noun (shrub)
- lilas noun (flower)
- lilas noun (color)
Georgian
4 entries- იასამნისფერი adj (colour)
- იასამანი noun (shrub)
- იასამანი noun (flower)
- იასამნისფერი noun (color)
German
4 entries- fliederblau adj (colour)
- fliederfarben adj (colour)
- fliederfarbig adj (colour)
- lila adj (colour)
Greek
2 entries- πασχαλιά noun (shrub)
- πασχαλιά noun (flower)
Hindi
2 entries- बकायन noun (shrub)
- बकायन noun (flower)
Hungarian
4 entries- halványlila adj (colour)
- orgonalila adj (colour)
- halványlila noun (color)
- orgona noun (shrub)
Icelandic
1 entries- sýrena noun (shrub)
Indonesian
1 entries- lila noun (color)
Interlingua
2 entries- lilac adj (colour)
- lilac noun (color)
Italian
3 entries- lilla noun (color)
- lillà noun (shrub)
- lillà noun (flower)
Japanese
4 entries- ライラック noun (shrub)
- ライラック noun (flower)
- リラ noun (shrub)
- 紫丁香花 noun (shrub)
Kazakh
2 entries- бөртегүл noun (shrub)
- мамыргүл noun (shrub)
Korean
4 entries- 라이라크 noun (flower)
- 라일락 noun (shrub)
- 라일락 noun (flower)
- 수수꽃다리 noun (flower)
Latgalian
2 entries- beseni noun (shrub)
- beseņš noun (shrub)
Latvian
4 entries- ceriņi noun (shrub)
- ceriņi noun (flower)
- ceriņš noun (shrub)
- ceriņš noun (flower)
Lithuanian
2 entries- alyva noun (shrub)
- alyva noun (flower)
Low German
3 entries- lila adj (colour)
- violett adj (colour)
- sireen noun (flower)
Macedonian
1 entries- јоргован noun (shrub)
Manx
1 entries- laylac noun (flower)
Māori
3 entries- rairaka noun (shrub)
- rairaka noun (flower)
- rairaka noun (color)
Northern Sotho
1 entries- perese noun (flower)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- syrin noun (shrub)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- syrin noun (shrub)
Persian
2 entries- یاس شیروانی noun (shrub)
- یاس شیروانی noun (flower)
Polish
4 entries- liliowy adj (colour)
- barwa liliowa noun (color)
- bez noun (shrub)
- bez noun (flower)
Portuguese
4 entries- lilás adj (colour)
- lilás noun (shrub)
- lilás noun (flower)
- lilás noun (color)
Quechua
1 entries- sañi adj (colour)
Romanian
4 entries- lila adj (colour)
- liliachiu adj (colour)
- violet adj (colour)
- liliac noun (shrub)
Russian
4 entries- сире́невый adj (colour)
- лило́вый noun (color)
- сире́невый noun (color)
- сире́нь noun (shrub)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- liath-chòrcra adj (colour)
- liath-ghorm adj (colour)
- liath-chòrcra noun (color)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jorgovan noun (shrub)
- jorgovan noun (flower)
- ljíljak noun (shrub)
- јоргован noun (shrub)
Slovak
1 entries- orgován noun (shrub)
Slovene
1 entries- španski bezeg noun (shrub)
Spanish
4 entries- lila noun (shrub)
- lila noun (flower)
- lila noun (color)
- lilac noun (shrub)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- lila noun (flower)
Swedish
4 entries- gredelin adj (colour)
- lila adj (colour)
- violett adj (colour)
- syren noun (shrub)
Tagalog
2 entries- lila noun (shrub)
- lila noun (flower)
Tatar
1 entries- шомырт noun (flower)
Turkish
4 entries- eflatun adj (colour)
- eflatun noun (color)
- leylak noun (shrub)
- leylak noun (flower)
Ukrainian
3 entries- бузко́вий adj (colour)
- бузо́к noun (shrub)
- бузо́к noun (flower)
Urdu
2 entries- بکاین noun (shrub)
- بکاین noun (flower)
Volapük
1 entries- süren noun (shrub)
West-Frisian
1 entries- nageltsjebeam noun (flower)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Among the paintings of Claude Monet is one titled "Lilac Irises" and another called "Iris Mauve."
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The color of lilac is named after the lilac flower.
Source: tatoeba (4486792)
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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