carnation

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
 * 2) originally,
 * 3) other members of genus  and hybrids
 * 4) The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
 * 5) A rosy pink colour
 * 6)  The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
 * 7) A scarlet colour.
 * 1)  The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
 * 2) A scarlet colour.
 * 1) A scarlet colour.

Synonyms

 * (also called gillyflower),

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: قُرُنْفُل
 * Moroccan Arabic: قرنفل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 剪絨花
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: karafiát,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: dianto
 * Faroese: nelikur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: caraveleira, caravel
 * German: Gartennelke,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Kalmyk:
 * Kazakh: қалампыр
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: gvazdikas
 * Macedonian: каранфил
 * Maltese: qronfol
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nellik
 * Nynorsk: nellik
 * Ottoman Turkish: قرنفل
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каранфил
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: klabel
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kariof,  diant,  plümadiant
 * Yiddish: נעגעלע, גוואָזדיקע


 * Afrikaans: angelier
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: قُرُنْفُل
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 康乃馨
 * Hokkien: 剪絨花
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: karafiát
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: dianto
 * Faroese: nelikur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: caravel
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Nägeli
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: bunga anyelir, bunga teluki
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay: bunga teluki
 * Maori: kāneihana, kanehana
 * Mòcheno: nagel
 * Nogai: калемпир
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nellik
 * Nynorsk: nellik
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каранфил
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hrebíček
 * Spanish:, carnalización
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: klabel
 * Thai: คาร์เนชั่น
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: garòfoło
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kariofaflor
 * Yiddish: נעגעלע, גוואָזדיקע


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: carnatie,
 * Finnish: neilikanpunainen
 * French:
 * Russian:


 * Italian:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a rosy pink or red colour.
 * 2)  Of a human flesh color.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 粉紅色的
 * Dutch: carnatie,
 * Finnish: heleänpunainen
 * French:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Slovene:

Etymology
From, possibly from , either way from (from ), or from a corruption of  (from , from ), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Noun

 * 1)  a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a  flower)
 * 2)  skin tone