hollyhock

English

Etymology

From Middle English holihocke, holyhokke, holihoc, from holi (“holy”) + hocke, hokke, hoc (“mallow”) (from Old English hoc (“marsh mallow”). The modern hollyhock was probably unknown in England until the 15th century, so usage before then no doubt referred to some other mallow.

Apparently so-called for being brought from the Holy Land; compare an old name for it in Medieval Latin cauli Sancti Cuthberti (“St. Cuthbert's cole”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlihɑk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒlihɒk/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: hol‧ly‧hock

Noun

hollyhock (plural hollyhocks)

2. Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228:

     No cottage in Coughton boasted taller hollyhocks, nor finer Michaelmas daisies in the autumn than Dame Magdalen’s almshouses; […]

Derived terms

• Antwerp hollyhock (Alcea ficifolia)
• Australian hollyhock (Malva preissiana)
• bristly hollyhock (Alcea setosa)
• common hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
• Cretan-hollyhock (Malva multiflora)
• hollyhocked
• Hollyhock leaf curl virus
• Hollyhock yellow vein alphasatellite
• Hollyhock yellow vein mosaic virus
• hollyhock-leaf pelargonium (Pelargonium cotyledonis)
• hollyhock mallow (Malva alcea)
• hollyhock-tree (Hibiscus splendens)
• long-sepal wild hollyhock (Iliamna longisepala
• mountain hollyhock (Iliamna rivularis)
• sea hollyhock (Hibiscus moscheutos)
• streambank wild hollyhock (Iliamna rivularis)
• wild hollyhock (Callirhoe, Sidalcea, Sphaeralcea spp., Iliamna bakeri, Iliamna rivularis)

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: ружа (bg) f (ruža)
• Catalan: malva reial f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜀葵 (zh) (shǔkuí)

• Czech: topolovka f
• Dutch: stokroos (nl) f or m
• Finnish: salkoruusu (fi)
• French: rose trémière (fr) f
• German: Stockrose f, Herbstrose f, Rosenmalve f
• Irish: leamhach beannaithe m
• Italian: malvarosa (it) f, malvone (it) m
• Japanese: 葵 (ja) (あおい, aoi)
• Korean: 접시꽃 (jeopsikkot)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھێرۆ (hêro)

  Laki: ھێروو (hêrû)

  Northern Kurdish: hêro (ku) m

  Southern Kurdish: ھێروو (hêrû)

• Maltese: bastun ta’ San Ġuzepp m
• Norman: rose en bâton f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stokkrose (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: stokkrose f

• Ottoman Turkish: خطمی (hatmi)
• Plautdietsch: Stockroos f
• Polish: malwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: malva-rosa (pt) f
• Romanian: nalbă (ro), nalbă-de-grădină f
• Russian: штокро́за (ru) f (štokróza), ма́льва (ru) f (málʹva) (colloquial)
• Spanish: malva real, malva arbórea, malva rósea, malva loca, malvarrosa
• Swedish: stockros (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ма́льва f (málʹva)
• Welsh: hocys bendigaid f pl

References

• “hollyhock”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• hollyhock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alcea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Alcea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons