clover

See also: Clover and clóver

English

zigzag clover (Trifolium medium)

Etymology

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer (“clover”), West Frisian klaver (“clover”), Dutch klaver (“clover”), German Low German Klaver (“clover”), German Klee (“clover”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʉ.və(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)

Noun

clover (plural clovers)

1. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
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     He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.

2. (cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

Alternative forms

• claver (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• shamrock
• trefoil

Derived terms

• brown clover (Trifolium badium)
• bush clover (Lespedeza spp.)
• clover clamp
• Cloverdale
• clovered
• clover grass
• cloverleaf
• cloverlike
• clover weevil (Apion apricans etc.)
• clover worm (Asopia costalis)
• clovery
• crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum)
• Dutch clover (Trifolium repens)
• Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum)
• four-leaf clover, four-leafed clover, four-leaved clover
• hart's clover (Melilotus)
• heart clover (Medicago arabica)
• in clover
• Japan clover
• Japanese clover
• lemon clover (Oxalis stricta)
• like a bee in clover
• like a pig in clover
• like pigs in clover
• lucky clover
• mountain carpet clover (Trifolium monanthum)
• owl's clover
• prairie clover (Dalea spp.)
• rare as a four-leaf clover
• red clover (Trifolium pratense)
• rolling in clover
• round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza capitata)
• snail clover (Medicago scutellata etc.)
• strawberry clover
• sub clover
• subterranean clover
• suckling clover
• sweet clover, sweet-clover (Melilotus spp.)
• white clover (Trifolium repens)

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: clóver

Translations

plant in genus Trifolium

• Afrikaans: klawer
• Albanian: tërfil (sq)
• Arabic: نَفَل (ar) m (nafal)
• Armenian: երեքնուկ (hy) (erekʻnuk), խնձորուկ (hy) (xnjoruk), սիրի-սիրի (hy) (siri-siri)
• Aromanian: trifoljiu, trifolju, trifiljiu
• Asturian: trébole m
• Azerbaijani: yonca (az)
• Bats: სამყურაჸო̂ (samq̇uraʾô)
• Belarusian: канюшы́на f (kanjušýna)
• Breton: melchon (br)
• Bulgarian: детелина (bg) f (detelina)
• Burmese: ကလိုဗါပင် (ka.luibapang)
• Catalan: trèvol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三葉草／三叶草 (saam¹ jip⁶ cou²)

  Mandarin: 三葉草／三叶草 (zh) (sānyècǎo), 苜 (zh) (mù)

• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān ocōxōchitl, trebol
• Cornish: mellyon
• Crimean Tatar: yonca
• Czech: jetel (cs) m
• Danish: kløver c
• Dutch: klaver (nl) f
• Esperanto: trifolio
• Estonian: ristikhein (et)
• Faroese: smæra f
• Finnish: apila (fi)
• French: trèfle (fr) m
• Friulian: cerfoi, cerfuei
• Gagauz: yonca
• Galician: trevo (gl) m
• Gallo: treuf' f
• Georgian: სამყურა (ka) (samq̇ura)
• German: Klee (de) m
• Greek: τριφύλλι (el) n (trifýlli)

  Ancient: τρίφυλλον n (tríphullon)

• Hebrew: תִּלְתָּן (he) m (tiltán)
• Hindi: तिपतिया m (tipatiyā)
• Hungarian: lóhere (hu)
• Icelandic: smári (is) m
• Ido: trifolio (io)
• Indonesian: semanggi (id)
• Ingrian: häryt, kleeveri
• Irish: seamair f
• Italian: trifoglio (it) m
• Japanese: クローバー (ja) (kurōbā), 白詰草 (ja) (しろつめくさ, shirotsumekusa) (white clover), 車軸草 (ja) (しゃじくそう, shajikusō)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಲವರ್ (klavar)
• Karaim: yonca
• Karakalpak: jońıshqa
• Kashubian: kòniczëna, kléwer m
• Kazakh: беде (bede)
• Korean: 클로버 (ko) (keullobeo)
• Krymchak: yonca
• Kumyk: ёнгурчгъа (yoñurçğa)
• Kyrgyz: жоңгучка (ky) (joŋgucka)
• Latin: trifolium n, cytisus m
• Latvian: āboliņš (lv) m
• Limburgish: kliè, klieë (li), klaver (li)
• Lithuanian: dobilas m
• Luxembourgish: Kléi m
• Macedonian: детелина f (detelina)
• Malay: semanggi
• Maltese: silla (mt) f
• Manx: shamrag f
• Maori: korouwa, koroua, korowa
• Mingrelian: სუმჸუჯა (sumʾuǯa)
• Nogai: йорынша (yorınşa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kløver (no) m

  Nynorsk: kløver m

• Occitan: trefuèlh m
• Old English: clāfre f, clǣfre f
• Old Prussian: wobilis
• Ottoman Turkish: یونجه (yonca)
• Persian: شبدر (fa) (šabdar)
• Polish: koniczyna (pl) f, dzięcielina (pl) f
• Portuguese: trevo (pt) m
• Quechua: chikmu, layu, ispinku
• Romanian: trifoi (ro) n
• Russian: кле́вер (ru) m (kléver)
• Salar: musi
• Sardinian: tirifozi, tirvozu, travullu, trevúgliu, trivudhu
• Saterland Frisian: Kleeuwer m
• Scottish Gaelic: seamrag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детелина f

  Roman: detelina (sh) f

• Slovak: ďatelina f
• Slovene: detelja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiśelina f

  Upper Sorbian: dźećel (hsb) m

• Spanish: trébol (es) m
• Svan: სამყურ (samq̇ur), პერპილ (ṗerṗil)
• Swedish: klöver (sv) n
• Tagalog: klober
• Tatar: тукранбаш (tt) (tuqranbaş)
• Thai: โคลเวอร์
• Tongan: kihikihipālangi
• Turkish: yonca (tr)
• Turkmen: ýorunja
• Ukrainian: конюши́на f (konjušýna)
• Urum: yonca
• Uzbek: beda (uz), yoʻngʻichqa (uz)
• Vietnamese: cỏ ba lá
• Vilamovian: kłej m
• Welsh: meillion
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: once n

References

• clover on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trifolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Trifolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Velcro, Colver, velcro