lilac
Meaning of lilac
noun
a Eurasian shrub or small tree of the olive family, which has fragrant violet, pink, or white blossom and is a popular garden ornamental.
early 17th century: from obsolete French, via Spanish and Arabic from Persian līlak, variant of nīlak ‘bluish’, from nīl ‘blue’.
Information about lilac
- It is a name.
- The plural form of lilac is: lilacs.
- Languages in which lilac is used:
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Hyphenation of lilac
lilac
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- lilac is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lilac synonyms
Meaning lavender:
Translation of lilac
- Portuguese: lilás
- German: Flieder, fliederfarben, lila, lilafarben
- Italian: lillà, lilla
- Spanish: lila, voileta, malva
- French: lila, lilas
Anagrams of lilac
Words that rhyme with lilac
Bilac, Acilac, Calcilac, verdilac, Lilac, Similac, Constilac
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