periwinkle

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
Diminutive of, from , (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), of unknown origin.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several evergreen plants of the genus  with blue or white flowers.
 * 2) Similar plants of genus.
 * 3) A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
 * 1) Similar plants of genus.
 * 2) A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.

Derived terms

 * Madagascar periwinkle
 * rosy periwinkle
 * Madagascar periwinkle
 * rosy periwinkle
 * Madagascar periwinkle
 * rosy periwinkle
 * Madagascar periwinkle
 * rosy periwinkle

Translations

 * Belarusian: барве́нак
 * Bulgarian: зимзелен
 * Catalan: vinca, pervinca
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蔓長春花
 * Czech: barvínek,
 * Esperanto: vinko
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: cangroia
 * German:, Singrün
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χαμαιδάφνη
 * Hebrew: וינקה
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: fincín, bláth na faochan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ツルニチニチソウ, ニチニチソウ
 * Kazakh: қабыршөп
 * Latin: pervinca
 * Norman: bliuette, pèrvenche
 * Polish: barwinek
 * Portuguese: pervinca
 * Romanian:, pervincă
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зи̏мзеле̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: vinca
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: perfagl


 * French:
 * Hungarian: babakék
 * Italian:

Adjective

 * 1) Of pale bluish purple colour.

Translations

 * Hungarian: babakék
 * Ido: pervinkea
 * Italian:

Etymology 2
From, alteration of (compare English dialectal ), from , compound of , itself from , variant of ) and  (compare dialectal 🇨🇬). More at  and.

Noun

 * 1) A mollusk of family.

Derived terms

 * giant periwinkle
 * giant periwinkle
 * giant periwinkle
 * giant periwinkle

Translations

 * Breton:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 濱螺
 * Czech: plážovka
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: rantakotilo
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, ,
 * German: Uferschnecke
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: faocha, gioradán, miongán
 * Italian: litorina, littorale
 * Japanese: タマキビガイ
 * Maori: ngaeti, mākerekere, matatangata, mātangata,
 * Norman: v'licot
 * Portuguese: litorina
 * Romanian: litorină
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, bígaro