Noun: lilac
| Singular | lilac |
| Plural | lilacs |
Sample Sentences
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Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:]
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[…] O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, / But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, / Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, / With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, / For you and the coffins all of you O death. [1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:]
Nouns inflected like lilac
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *neyH-der.?
3. Sanskrit नील॑ (nī́la)der.
4. Middle Persian 𐭭𐭩𐭫 (nīl)
5. Classical Persian نِیل (nīl)
6. Middle Persian 𐭪 (k /-ak/)
7. Classical Persian ـَک (-ak)
8. Classical Persian لِیلَک (līlak)bor.
9. Arabic لِيلَك (līlak)bor.
10. French lilacbor.
11. English lilac
12. From obsolete French lilac (now lilas), from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak). See: French Nouns '
lilac'.
Verbs referencing "lilac"
Irish Nouns
líológ.