cyclamen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.
cyclamen (plural cyclamens)
- Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Synonym: sowbread
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:
An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:
An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]
A type of plant
- Albanian: burth (sq)
- Arabic: see Thesaurus:بخور مريم
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܥܲܪܛܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (ʿarṭānīṯā)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: רקפתא (/*raqəp̄tā/), עַרְטָנִיתָא f (ʿarṭānīṯā)
- Armenian: արջտակ (hy) (arǰtak)
- Azerbaijani: iran meşənovruzu
- Bulgarian: циклама f (ciklama)
- Catalan: ciclamen m, artanita f
- Chinese:
- Czech: brambořík (cs) m
- Danish: alpeviol
- Dutch: cyclaam (nl) m
- French: cyclamen (fr) m, artanite f
- Georgian: ყოჩივარდა (q̇očivarda)
- German: Alpenveilchen (de) n, Erdscheibe (de) f, Erdbrot n, Schweinsbrot n, Saubrot n
- Greek: κυκλάμινο (el) n (kyklámino)
- Ancient: κυκλάμινος f or m (kukláminos), στρουθίον n (strouthíon)
- Hebrew: רַקֶּפֶת (he) (raqéfeṯ)
- Hungarian: ciklámen (hu)
- Irish: ciclimin f
- Italian: ciclamino (it) m, artanita (it) f
- Japanese: シクラメン (ja) (shikuramen), 篝火草 (かがりびそう, kagaribisō), 豚の饅頭 (ぶたのまんじゅう, buta no manjū)
- Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
- Latin: cyclamen n, cyclamīnos f (Medieval and New Latin)
- Macedonian: цикла́ма f (cikláma)
- Malayalam: സൈക്ലാമെൻ പെർസികം (saiklāmeṉ peṟsikaṁ)
- Mingrelian: ტკვარჩელია (ṭḳvarčelia)
- Mòcheno: ciclamin
- Persian: نگونسار ایرانی
- Polish: cyklamen (pl) m
- Portuguese: cíclame m, ciclame m
- Romanian: ciclamă (ro) f
- Russian: цикламе́н (ru) m (ciklamén)
- Serbo-Croatian: ciklama (sh), klobučac (sh) m, križalina (sh) f, skrižalina (sh) f, miholjica (sh) f
- Slovak: cyklámen m
- Spanish: ciclamen (es) m, violeta persa f, violeta de los Alpes f, ciclamino (es) m, pamporcino m, artanita f
- Swedish: cyklamen (sv) c
- Turkish: siklamen (tr), yersomunu
- Welsh: bogel y ddaear f
cyclamen n (plural cyclamens)
- This form is mostly used in technical contexts, cyclaam being the more standard choice.
- cyclaam (back-formation)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
cyclamen

cyclamen m (plural cyclamens)
- “cyclamen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈky.kla.men/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪ämɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.kla.men/, [ˈt͡ʃiːklämen]
cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension
- Alternative form of cyclamīnos
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
- → Bulgarian: циклама (ciklama)
- → Catalan: ciclamen
- → English: cyclamen
- → French: cyclamen
- → German: Zyklamen
- → Hungarian: ciklámen
- → Polish: cycklamen
- → Portuguese: ciclame
- → Russian: цикламен (ciklamen)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ciklama / циклама
- → Spanish: ciclamen
- → Swedish: cyklamen
- → Translingual: Cyclamen
- → Turkish: siklamen
- cyclămĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.