garland

See also: Garland

English

Garlands of flowers

Etymology

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of Frankish *wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz.

Akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.lənd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹ.lənd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaː.lənd/

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

1. A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:

     Bestow a Garland only on a Bier

2. An accolade or mark of honour.
3. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
4. The crown of a monarch.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Seuenth”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 911:

     [She] ioyfully receyued and welcommed mee, as the onely type and garland of her noble ſtirpe and linage, […]

5. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
   • 1765, Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry:

     They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

6. The top; the thing most prized.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     And call him noble that was now your hate, / Him vile that was your garland.

7. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
8. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Derived terms

• civic garland
• garland chrysanthemum
• garland thorn
• shot garland
• shot-garland

 

Translations

wreath of flowers

• Afrikaans: gierlande
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ծաղկեպսակ (hy) (caġkepsak)
• Azerbaijani: hörük (az)
• Bulgarian: гирлянда f (girljanda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花環 / 花环 (zh) (huāhuán)

• Czech: girlanda (cs) f, věnec (cs) m
• Danish: krans (da) c
• Dutch: guirlande (nl) f, krans (nl), slinger (nl)
• Esperanto: girlando
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kukkaseppele (fi), seppele (fi) (circular); köynnös (fi) (resembling vine)
• French: guirlande (fr) f
• Galician: grilanda f, guirlanda f
• Georgian: ყვავილწნული (q̇vavilc̣nuli), გირლანდა (girlanda)
• German: Girlande (de) f
• Greek: γιρλάντα (el) f (girlánta)

  Ancient: στέμμα n (stémma)

• Hawaiian: lei
• Hebrew: זר (he) m (zer), שזירה (he) f (shezirá)
• Hindi: माला (hi) f (mālā)
• Hungarian: girland (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ingrian: venokka
• Irish: fleasc f
• Kazakh: гүл тізбегі (gül tızbegı)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: veitine
• Latin: serta f
• Latvian: vītne
• Lithuanian: vainikas
• Macedonian: гирла́нда f (girlánda), ве́нец m (vénec)
• Maori: hei
• Marathi: माळ f (māḷ), हार (mr) m (hār)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krans (no) m

  Nynorsk: krans m

• Persian: بساک (fa) (basâk)
• Plautdietsch: Krauns m
• Polish: girlanda (pl) f
• Portuguese: grinalda (pt) f
• Russian: гирля́нда (ru) f (girljánda), вено́к (ru) m (venók), вене́ц (ru) (venéc)
• Sanskrit: माला (sa) f (mālā)
• Spanish: guirnalda (es) f, guirlanda f
• Swedish: krans (sv) c, girlang (sv) c
• Tagalog: girlanda
• Tahitian: hei
• Tamil: மாலை (ta) (mālai)
• Telugu: మాల (te) (māla)
• Thai: มาลัย (th), พวงมาลัย (th) (puuang-maa-lai)
• Tocharian B: carke
• Ukrainian: віно́к m (vinók), гірля́нда f (hirljánda)
• Urdu: مالا f (mālā)

accolade, mark of honour

• Armenian: մրցանակ (hy) (mrcʻanak)
• Bulgarian: аколада f (akolada)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: ereteken (nl) n
• Finnish: kunnianosoitus (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: ჯილდო (ka) (ǯildo), პრიზი (ṗrizi)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: galardón (es), marco de honor m or c
• Swedish: kedjekoppling

a wreath of flowers worn made to wear on the head or use as gifts

• Khiamniungan Naga: tāupūo kùam

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

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} garlanda (ca) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Girlande (de) f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cunună (ro), ^{(please verify)} coroană (ro)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దండ (te) (daṇḍa), ^{(please verify)} హారం (te) (hāraṁ), ^{(please verify)} మాల (te) (māla)

See also

• chaplet

Verb

garland (third-person singular simple present garlands, present participle garlanding, simple past and past participle garlanded)

1. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland.
   • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 206:

     Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women.

2. (transitive) To form something into a garland.

Anagrams

• Ragland