flax

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too ) stem is different.

Noun

 * 1) A plant of the genus Linum, especially, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
 * 2) The fibers of, grown to make linen and related textiles.
 * 3) The, a plant of the genus , native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.

Usage notes
The plural flaxes is used to indicate multiple species or varieties of flax; otherwise, flax is uncountable.

Translations

 * Akkadian: kitûm
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: كَتَّان
 * Egyptian Arabic: كتان
 * Moroccan Arabic: كتان
 * Aramaic:
 * Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܟܬܢܐ, ܟܝܬܢܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܟܬܢܐ, ܩܛܘ
 * Jewish Aramaic: כִּיתָּנָא
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: վուշ, կտաւ
 * Aromanian: ljin
 * Azerbaijani: adi kətan
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: liho
 * Belarusian: лён
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: сюс
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: lina
 * Faroese: lín, hørur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: lin
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სელი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάρπασος, λίνον
 * Gujarati: અળસી
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ಅಗಸೆನಾರು
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ការច្នៃ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: lyns
 * Latin: līnum
 * Latvian: lins
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Macedonian: лен
 * Malay: flaks
 * Middle English: flax
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: lîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lin,
 * Nynorsk: lin
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: fleax
 * Ottoman Turkish: كتان
 * Persian:, , زغر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punic: 𐤐𐤔𐤕
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: linu
 * Scots: lint
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ла̏н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ľan
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: lan
 * Southern Altai: кӱдели, кеден
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: 𒃰
 * Swabian: Lãẽ
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: гиниб
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎉
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: llin


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, freba
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Flachsfaser,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λίνον
 * Gujarati: અળસી
 * Italian:
 * Kannada: ಅಗಸೆನಾರು
 * Latvian: lini
 * Macedonian: лен
 * Norman: lîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lin,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: lan
 * Spanish: filasa
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sulid
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) Flax  or its fibers
 * 2) Linen; fabric made out of flax
 * 3) Flax or straw used as a firestarter; tinder

Noun

 * 1)  (unexpected) good luck