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English
Noun
Job 's tears pl (plural only )
Coix lacryma-jobi , a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae , native to southeast Asia .
Synonym: adlay
Translations
Coix lacryma-jobi
Arabic: دَمْع أَيُّوب m ( damʕ ʔayyūb )
Burmese: ကျိတ်ပင် ( kyitpang )
Catalan: llàgrimes de Job f pl
Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎤᏂᏥ ( selu unitsi )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薏苡 (zh) ( yìyǐ )
Fijian: sila (fi)
Finnish: jobinkyynelheinä
German: Hiobsträne f , Hiobstränengras
Hawaiian: pūʻoheʻohe , ʻoheʻohe
Japanese: 薏苡 ( よくい, yokui )
Khmer: ស្កួយ (km) ( skuəy )
Korean: 염주(念珠 ねんじゅ ) ( yeomju ) , 율무 ( yulmu )
Malay: jelai , enjelai
Maori: tangatanga
Maranao: delay
Persian: اشک روباه ( ašk rubâh ) , شال تسبیح ( šâl tasbih )
Russian: бу́сенник обыкнове́нный m ( búsennik obyknovénnyj ) , ио́влевы слёзы f pl ( ióvlevy sljózy )
Samoan: sanasana , sagasaga
Tagalog: abukay
Tahitian: poepoe
Thai: เดือย (th) ( dʉai )
Tongan: hana
Ukrainian: бусеннік звичайний m ( busennik zvyčajnyj ) , сльо́зи Іова f pl ( slʹózy Iova )
Vietnamese: bo bo (vi) , ý dĩ (vi) , cườm thảo