daisy

See also: Daisy and DAISY

English

Alternative forms

daisie, daysie (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English dayesye, from Old English dæġes ēage (“daisy”, literally “day's eye”) due to the flowers closing their blossoms during night. The rhyming slang comes from daisy roots for boots.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.zi/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪzi

Noun

daisy (plural daisies)

A wild flowering plant of species Bellis perennis of the family Asteraceae, with a yellow head and white petals
Any of numerous other flowering plants of various species, mostly among the asterids.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A boot or other footwear.
(colloquial) Something splendid; a doozy.
- 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
  Then Dan drew the sheath-knife and tested the edge of it on the gunwale.
  "That's a daisy," said Harvey. "How did you get it so cheap?"

Derived terms

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Translations

Bellis perennis

Abkhaz: адәыкакаҷ (adʷəkʼakʼačʼ)
Albanian: margaritë, luleshqerrë (sq), lule delme (tosk), lule dele (gheg), lule kacidhe, lule buke (Pogradec), lule dhensh (Elbasan), lule dheshë (Vuthaj)., luledele (sq) f
Arabic: أُقْحُوَان (ʔuqḥuwān)
Armenian: մարգարտածաղիկ (hy) (margartacaġik)
Azerbaijani: qızçiçəyi
Basque: basabitxilorea, txiribita
Belarusian: стакротка f (stakrótka)
Bulgarian: паричка f (parička), маргаритка f (margaritka)
Burmese: ဒေစီ (my) (deci)
Catalan: margarida (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雛菊 / 雏菊 (co¹ guk¹)

Mandarin: 雛菊 / 雏菊 (zh) (chújú), 延命菊 (zh) (yánmìngjú)
Cornish: egor Duw m
Czech: sedmikráska chudobka f
Danish: tusindfryd
Dutch: madeliefje (nl) n
Esperanto: lekanto
Estonian: harilik kirikakar
Faroese: summardái m
Finnish: kaunokainen (fi), tuhatkauno (fi)
French: pâquerette (fr) f, marguerite (fr) f
Galician: gamarza f, magarza f, margarida (gl) f
Georgian: ზიზილა (zizila)
German: Gänseblümchen (de) n, Tausendschönchen n, Tagesauge n
Greek: μαργαρίτα (el) f (margaríta)
Hebrew: חִנָּנִית (he) (ẖinanít)
Hindi: गुलबहार m (gulabhār)
Hungarian: százszorszép (hu)
Icelandic: fagurfífill (is) m
Ido: margriteto (io)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: nóinín (ga) m
Italian: pratolina (it) f, margheritina (it) f
Japanese: 雛菊 (ja) (ひなぎく, hinagiku), 延命菊 (えんめいぎく, enmeigiku)
Khmer: ផ្កាឈូករ័ត្ន (pkaa cʰuuk roatta)
Korean: 데이지 (ko) (deiji)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: beybûn (ku) f
Lao: ດອກກ້ານກ່ອງ (dǭk kān kǭng)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Laz: loresima
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Margréitchen (lb) f
Norman: amouroque f, pâquerette f
Norn: kokkeluri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tusenfryd (no) m

Nynorsk: tusenfryd m
Occitan: margarida (oc) f
Old English: dæġes ēage n
Plautdietsch: Gaunsebloom f
Polish: stokrotka (pl) f
Portuguese: margarida (pt) f
Romanian: bănuț (ro) m, părăluță (ro) f, bănuțel (ro) m
Russian: маргари́тка (ru) f (margarítka)
Scottish Gaelic: neòinean f
Serbo-Croatian: tràtīnčica (sh) f, bȇla ráda f
Slovak: sedmokráska (sk) f
Slovene: marjética (sl) f
Spanish: margarita común f, chiribita f
Swahili: kibibimlima
Swedish: tusensköna (sv) c
Tagalog: butonsilyo
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: เดซี (dee-sîi)
Turkish: papatya (tr), yoğurt çiçeği (tr)
Ukrainian: маргари́тка f (marharýtka)
Vietnamese: hoa cúc, hoa cúc mâm xôi
Welsh: llygad y dydd m
Yiddish: מאַרגאַריטקע f (margaritke)

commonly used term for related flowers

Cornish: caja f
Dutch: margriet (nl) m or f
Finnish: päivänkakkara (fi) (oxeye daisy)
French: marguerite (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Tagesauge n
Italian: margherita (it) f
Kazakh: дәстүргүл (dästürgül)
Laz: loresima
Maori: parani
Norwegian: margaritt m
Old English: dæġes ēage n
Portuguese: margarida (pt) f
Romanian: margaretă (ro) f
Spanish: margarita (es) f
Swahili: jaja (sw)
Swedish: prästkrage (sv)
Turkish: papatya (tr)
Welsh: llygad y dydd m, llygad (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Arabic: ^{(please verify)} زَهْر اللُؤْلُؤْ m (zahr al-luʔluʔ)
Maltese: ^{(please verify)} margerita f
Old English: ^{(please verify)} dæġes ēaġe n
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} margaretă (ro) f

References

daisy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

I'd say, Sayid, diyas