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Rose Definition

rose

See also Rose, rosé, and rosë

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on: Rose

Wikipedia en

a red rose (flower)

Etymology 1

From Old English, from Latin rosa, from Oscan, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhodon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wrodon)), from Old Iranian *wurdi, 'flower' (compare Avestan ... (warda), Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dho 'thorn, bramble' (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rose (plural roses)

  1. a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers
  2. a flower of the rose plant
  3. a plant or species in the rose family (Rosaceae)
  4. something resembling a rose flower.
  5. a purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers
    web rose colour:
    rose pink colour:
  6. a round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
  7. the base of a light socket.
Translations
shrub
flower
a plant or species in the rose family (Rosaceae)
  • Esperanto: rozaco (eo), rozacoj (eo)
  • French: rosacée (fr) f., rosacées (fr) f. pl.
  • German: Rosengewächs (de) n., Rosengewächse (de) n. pl., rosenblütige Pflanze (de) f., rosenblütige Pflanzen (de) f. pl.
  • Volapük: rosadaplan (vo), (plural) rosadaplans (vo)
colour
  • Basque: arrosa (eu)
  • Breton: roz m.
  • Catalan: rosa m.
  • Dutch: roze n. (?)
  • Estonian: roosa (et)
  • French: rose (fr) f.
  • Galician: rosa (gl) m. and f.
  • German: rosa (de)
  • Greek: ρόδινο (el) (ródino) n., τριανταφυλλί (el) (triantafyllí) n.
  • Hindi: गुलाबी (gulābi) (pink)
  • Hungarian: rózsaszín (hu)
  • Indonesian: merah muda (id)
  • Italian: rosa (it) f.
  • Japanese: バラ色 (ばらいろ, barairo)
  • Lithuanian: rožinė
nozzle
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Verb

rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)

  1. To make rose-colored.

Adjective

rose (not comparable)

  1. Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy
Translations
colour

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb rose

See also

Etymology 2

From rise.

Verb

rose

  1. Simple past of rise.
Related terms

Etymology 3

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

Noun

rose (plural roses)

  1. Alternative spelling of rosé.

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Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on: Rose

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Etymology 1

From late Old Norse rós, rósa, from Middle Low German rōse, from Latin rosa (“rose”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rose c. (singular definite rosen, plural indefinite roser)

  1. rose (flower, shrup of the genus Rosa)
Inflection
Inflection of rose
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative rose rosen roser roserne
genitive roses rosens rosers rosernes

Etymology 2

From French rosé.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

rose c. (singular definite roseen, plural indefinite roseer)

  1. rosé (a pale pink wine)
Inflection
Inflection of rose
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative rose roseen roseer roseerne
genitive roses roseens roseers roseernes

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hrósa, whence dialectal English roose.

Pronunciation

Verb

rose (imperative ros, infinitive at rose, present tense roser, past tense roste, past participle har rost)

  1. praise, commend, roose

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

Noun

rose f. (plural roses)

  1. rose (flower)
  2. rose window

Noun

rose m. (plural roses)

  1. pink

Adjective

rose (epicene, plural roses)

  1. pink
  2. (humorous) pink, left-wing
  3. (colloquial) erotic, blue
  4. (in phrases) rosy, rose-tinted

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Italian

Noun

rose f. pl.

  1. Plural form of rosa.

Verb

rose

  1. third-person singular past historic of rodere
  2. Feminine plural past participle of rodere.

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Latin

Participle

rōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rōsus

 

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