rose

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A flower with a sweet smell and a thorny stem, often given as a sign of love.

   He gave her a single red rose on Valentine's Day.

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of rise.

   The sun rose slowly over the mountains.

3. 3
   adj

   Having a pinkish colour.

   The sky turned a soft rose colour at sunset.

4. 4
   name

   A female given name.

   Their youngest daughter is called Rose.

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /⁠gul⁠/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕ…

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