angelica

See also: Angelica, Angélica, angélica, angèlica, and angelică

English

angelica (Angelica archangelica).

Candied angelica stems.

Pronunciation

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Noun

angelica (countable and uncountable, plural angelicas)

1. A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).

   Synonym: archangel

2. Candied stems of the plant, used to decorate cookies.
3. Species of Aralia.
4. Synonym of angélique (“musical instrument”)

Derived terms

• angelica tree
• angelicin
• garden angelica
• little-leaf angelica (Selinum carvifolia)
• Norwegian angelica

 

Translations

plants of genus Angelica

• Arabic: حَشِيشَة المَلَاك f (ḥašīša al-malʔak)
• Belarusian: дзя́гі́ль m (dzjáhílʹ), дзя́гель m (dzjáhjelʹ)
• Catalan: angèlica f
• Chagatai: بالدیرغان (baldırğan), بالدیرغو (baldırğu)
• Chinese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 当归 (zh) (dāngguī)

• Czech: andělika (cs) f, děhel m
• Danish: kvan ?, kvaner ?
• Dutch: engelwortel (nl) m
• Esperanto: angeliko
• Faroese: hvonn f
• Finnish: karhunputki (fi), väinönputki (fi)
• French: angélique (fr) f
• German: Engelwurz f
• Greek: αγγελική (el) m (angelikí)
• Icelandic: hvönn (is) f
• Irish: ainglice f, gallfheabhrán m
• Italian: angelica f
• Japanese: シシウド (shishiudo), アンゼリカ (anzerika)
• Khakas: палтырған (paltırğan)
• Latvian: zirdzene ?
• Lithuanian: šventagaršvė ?
• Maori: naupiro
• Mongolian: балчиргана (mn) (balčirgana)
• Norwegian: kvann f
• Old Norse: hvǫnn f
• Persian: سنبل ختایی (sombol-e xatâyi), سنبل خطایی (sombol-e xatâyi), گلپر (fa) (golpar) (also means hogweed), بلدرغو (baldarğu) (Afghanistan; also means hogweed)
• Polish: dzięgiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: angélica (pt) f
• Romanian: angelică (ro) f
• Russian: дя́гиль (ru) m (djágilʹ), ду́дник (ru) m (dúdnik), анге́лика (ru) f (angélika)
• Scottish Gaelic: aingealag f, cuinneag-mhìghe f, galluran m, iùran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анђѐлика f

  Latin: anđèlika (sh) f

• Slovak: angelika f
• Slovene: angelika f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: dźehel (hsb) m

• Spanish: angélica (es) f
• Turkish:

  Classical Ottoman Turkish: سنبل خطایی (sümbül-i hetayı)

  Late Ottoman Turkish: ملك اوتی (melek otu)

  Modern Turkish: melek otu (tr)

• Ukrainian: дя́гель m (djáhelʹ)

candied stem

• French: angélique (fr) f
• Japanese: アンゼリカ (anzerika)

References

• Angelica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Angelica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Angelica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒɛ.li.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛlika
• Hyphenation: an‧gè‧li‧ca

Etymology 1

Adjective

angelica

1. feminine singular of angelico

Noun

angelica f (plural angeliche)

1. angelica (plant)

Etymology 2

Verb

angelica

1. inflection of angelicare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• canaglie, galenica

Latin

Pronunciation

• angelica: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡe.li.ka/, [äŋˈɡɛlʲɪkä]
• angelica: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.ka/, [än̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlikä]
• angelicā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡe.li.kaː/, [äŋˈɡɛlʲɪkäː]
• angelicā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.ka/, [än̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlikä]

Adjective

angelica

1. inflection of angelicus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

angelicā

1. ablative feminine singular of angelicus

References

• angelica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)