paulownia

See also: Paulownia and paulownią

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.

Noun

paulownia (plural paulownias)

1. Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
   • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 62:

     “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 泡あわ桐きり (zh) (pāotóng)
• French: paulownia (fr) m
• Polish: paulownia (pl) f
• Russian: павло́вния (ru) f (pavlóvnija)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.lɔ.nja/

Noun

paulownia m (plural paulownias)

1. paulownia

Further reading

• “paulownia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Polish

paulownia

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, from Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pawˈlɔv.ɲa/
• Rhymes: -ɔvɲa
• Syllabification: pau‧low‧nia

Noun

paulownia f

1. paulownia

Declension

Declension of paulownia

	singular	plural
nominative	paulownia	paulownie
genitive	paulowni	paulowni
dative	paulowni	paulowniom
accusative	paulownię	paulownie
instrumental	paulownią	paulowniami
locative	paulowni	paulowniach
vocative	paulownio	paulownie

Further reading

• paulownia in Polish dictionaries at PWN