lebbek

English

lebbek

Etymology

Forsskål’s 1775 Flora Ægyptiaco-Arabica recorded the Arabic لَبَخ (labaḵ) as læbach, leæba (page 172), lebbek (page LI, LXXVII), which Willdenow’s 1797 edition of Linnæi Species plantarum made translingual as Acacia lebbeck.

Noun

lebbek (plural lebbeks)

1. The tree Albizia lebbeck.

   Synonyms: koko, East Indian walnut, woman's tongue tree

   Hypernym: siris

Translations

Albizia lebbeck

• Arabic: لَبَخ m (labaḵ)
• Bengali: শিরীষ (bn) (śiriś), কপীতন (bn) (kopiton), ভণ্ডিল (bhonḍil), ভণ্ডির (bhonḍir), ভণ্ডীর (bhonḍir)
• Burmese: ကုက္ကို (my) (kukkui), အညာကုက္ကို (a.nyakukkui)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合歡樹 / 合欢树

• Finnish: valkoalbitsia
• German: Seidenbaum m, Seidenakazie f, Schlafbaum m, Schirmakazie f (these apply to the whole genus), Lebbeckbaum m
• Haitian Creole: tchatcha, tyatya
• Hindi: सिरिस (hi) (siris)
• Japanese: ビルマネムノキ (birumanemunoki), ビルマネム (birumanemu), ビルマゴウカン (birumagōkan), オオバネムノキ (ōbanemunoki)
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ਰੀਂਹ (pa) m (śarī̃h)
• Swedish: kokko c
• Tamil: வாகை (ta) (vākai)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: سرس (siris)